New Delhi: Girls once again outshone boys in class XII CBSE results announced on Monday, which recorded a pass percentage of 80.19. Girls have performed better than boys with pass percentage of 86.21 as compared to 75.80 per cent. Chennai region has recorded the highest pass percentage of 90.59. The results were declared across the country on Monday, with the total pass percentage standing at 80.19 per cent, a fall...
11:25 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: The results of the class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board exams have been announced on Monday. The results are available on the website www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in, and www.cbse.nic.in Students can also get their results on email by registering themselves on these websites. Students can also dial 011-24357276 to get their results. Besides, they can get their results through SMSs. ...
10:04 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Girls once again outshone boys in class X CBSE results announced on Thursday, which recorded a pass percentage of 98.19. The overall pass figure is about two per cent higher than last last year's results. The pass percentage of girls stood at 98.48 per cent as compared to 97.98 per cent in case of boys. According to a CBSE statement, the pass percentage in Chennai region at 99.45...
07:06 PM, May 24, 2012
An unidentified toxic powder was used to contaminate the air in the classrooms by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. ...
11:11 AM, May 24, 2012
Chennai: Girls continued to outshine boys in the Class XII examinations conducted by the state government, results for which were announced on Tuesday. Students hailing from Namakkal district bagged the top three ranks from among nearly 8.20 lakh students who appeared for the exam conducted in March. Girls continued to dominate by registering a pass percentage of 89.7 while 83.2 per cent of boys cleared the exams. Incidentally, this time...
12:49 PM, May 22, 2012
Rampur: The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle. Two years later, she is about to graduate from high school and wants to be a teacher. Bihar has been so successful at keeping teenage girls in school, the bike giveaways have spread to neighboring...
06:16 PM, May 21, 2012
London: Actress Demi Moore has signed up for her first film since a medical emergency put her career on hold in January. The 49-year-old has signed on to star in 'Very Good Girls', opposite former California school pals Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning. Moore will play Olsen's mother, reported Contactmusic. The actress was forced to pull out of Linda Lovelace biopic 'Lovelace' in January after falling ill at her home...
03:38 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Legendary disco singer Donna Summer died on Thursday morning after succumbing to a long battle with cancer, media reports said. Summers was 63. Born in Boston, Summer's hits include 'Last Dance', 'Bad Girls' and 'She Works Hard for The Money'. The five-time Grammy winner leaves behind two daughters with husband, songwriter Bruce Charles Sudano and another daughter from a previous marriage. ...
09:50 PM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra government has sought the support of Bollywood star Aamir Khan in their campaign against female foeticide, a day after the actor had taken up the issue with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. In a letter to Khan, state Health Minister Suresh Shetty, while highlighting the steps taken by the government in this regard, congratulated him on raising the issue of female foeticide in his TV reality show 'Satyamev...
02:59 AM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: On April 29, the police raided a pub in Khar after receiving a tip-off about a flesh trade racket operational there, and detained 16 girls. However, families of many of the detainees say they are just college students or housewives from working class families who had only gone to the pub to have a good time. They claim they have been tagged prostitutes and consigned to a rehabilitation centre...
12:15 PM, May 09, 2012
Nawada: Two schoolgirls who resisted a molestation attempt were deliberately hit and run over by a jeep leading to their deaths in Bihar's Nawada district on Saturday, police said. The Class X students boarded a jeep after collecting money from their school at Sitaram village under Mufassil police station, the sources said. The money were given to them under the Chief Minister's Uniform Scheme for purchasing uniform and educational material....
03:41 AM, Apr 29, 2012
My first reaction on reading the news that St Aloysius College in Mangalore had restricted the use of burqa was that it was unnecessarily provocative. ...
06:46 PM, Apr 28, 2012
A Unicef report on adolescents (between 10 and 19 years of age) titled 'Progress for Children' has revealed that nearly 50 per cent of adolescent girls aged between 15 and 19 years in India are underweight, with a body mass index of less than 18.5. Anaemia is a severe public health problem in sixteen countries of the world, the largest number of cases being found here in India where more...
04:32 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Kunduz: About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education. Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul. But periodic attacks still occur against girls, teachers and their school buildings, usually in the more...
10:49 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Lucknow: Free engineering and medical education would be given to girls in government colleges in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced on Thursday. He made the announcement while addressing an event on the 125th annual function of Isabella Thoburn College (IT) in Lucknow. Akhilesh also announced an assistance of Rs 1 crore for the new hostel building of the college and said the government will extend all possible help...
12:51 AM, Apr 13, 2012
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