Alipore: A lady teacher who was arrested for allegedly banging a class III student's head against a wall as punishment leading to his death was on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Alipore ACJM, SM Shahnawaz, remanded Champa Mondal of the Nirdheshkhali Shishu Shiksha Kendra in South 24 Parganas district to judicial custody and she would be produced before the court again on June 1.
Mondal allegedly banged the head of nine-year-old Bapi Joardar against a wall as punishment for playing with his bag with another student on April 15. The boy was grievously injured and was taken by his parents to a hospital in Canning, the district headquarters, from where he was referred the same night to a hospital in Kolkata where he died the next day.
The teacher in her mid-30s was arrested on Friday. Education minister Bratya Basu had announced that a secretary-level officer would conduct an inquiry into the incident.
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06:33 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Signalling apossible realignment of his party's alliance in Haryana, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Thursday met INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala at a hospital in Delhi, party sources said. They said Rajnath Singh, accompanied by party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, met Chautala at the Ram Manohar Hospital in Delhi. The leaders of two parties are learnt to have discussed current political developments during the meeting which lasted...
04:46 AM, May 17, 2013
Srinagar: A government school teacher in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district has been suspended by authorities after he uploaded a picture of small school children massaging his legs on social networking website Facebook. Teacher Bashir Ahmad ran into trouble with the Anantnag district authorities after there was outrage on Facebook over the manner in which he made the kids massage him. The state education director has expressed horror at the...
02:36 PM, May 14, 2013
Hamirpur: A local court on Friday sentenced a school teacher to eight years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 in a rape case committed in March 2012. A class VIII student of the Government School, Kiyarabagh in Hamirpur district had lodged a complaint in Badsar police on June 2, 2012, that a teacher had raped her on March 24 and was repeatedly harassing her. The victim had stopped...
03:57 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi University Teachers' Association is demanding that the 4-year bachelors programme be postponed to next year. But the university seems adamant to stick to the July 2013 deadline. It affects half a million students from across the country. Nearly half a million students and 9,000 teachers of DU stand to be affected by the decision to make all bachelor programmes a 4-year affair starting July 2013. But...
10:26 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A teacher was arrested on Tuesday in Odisha's Sambalpur district for molesting an eight-year-old-girl in the school classroom, police said. The 28-year-old offender, an art and crafts teacher in a private school at the district headquarters town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly gave the students some drawing assignments and started watching an obscene video on his laptop. After finishing her drawing, the girl went...
04:40 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistan has asked India to present it with methods of teachers' training and research materials of various teacher training institutes. According to sources, Pakistan Directorate of Staff Development in Lahore has requested the National Council of Teacher Education to share teaching qualities which it wants to incorporate in its training programme. Appreciating the teachers' training programme in India, the Pakistani Directorate has sought presentation on functioning, responsibilities and...
01:50 AM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: A five-year-old kindergarten student was sodomised by his schoolteacher in the capital, police said on Thursday. The incident was reported from East Delhi's Jagatpuri area on Wednesday afternoon where it occurred in a Municipal Corporation-run school. The boy was rushed to Guru Teg Bahadur hospital by his family after he shared about the incident which occurred in the school premises. The accused teacher, identified as Pramod, is in...
05:29 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday contended before the Delhi High Court that former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala was the "main conspirator" in the junior basic trained (JBT) teachers' recruitment scam of 2000. Opposing the bail plea of Chautala, jailed for 10 years in the scam, Solicitor General (SG) Mohan Parasaran, who argued for CBI, submitted before Justice Mukta Gupta that Chautala was "the main conspirator and others (accused)...
09:53 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Pittsburgh: A University of Pittsburgh grad student, who was nervous about her ability to teach a class, instead made two bomb threats so it would be cancelled, campus police said. Online court records don't list an attorney for Nancy Bruni, 34, of New Kensington, who didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on charges of terroristic threats, and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction. Pitt police charged the...
07:30 AM, Apr 12, 2013
South 24 Parganas: Baruipur railway station was ransacked on Sunday after hundreds of applicants appearing for TET (Primary Teachers Eligibility Test) got delayed at the station and could not appear for the exam. This happened after an applicant fell off from an overcrowded train and was seriously injured. The police resorted to lathicharge and 50-60 people were injured in the incident. The incident took place on Sunday morning when thousands...
07:39 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday appointed the Hyderpora acid-attack victim to the state school education department, on compassionate grounds. Local MLA and ruling National Conference provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani and Tanvir Sadiq, political secretary to the Chief Minister on Wednesday visited the victim's house in Baghat Barzulla and handed over an appointment order for her engagement in the education department, official sources said adding that it...
05:10 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Indian women's kabaddi team coach Sunil Dabas, who is also a teacher in a Gurgaon school, reportedly fainted after a Congress MLA passed some lewd and insulting comments against her during a function in Gurgaon. The alleged incident took place at DSD college, Gurgaon. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The Supreme Court is hearing a case related to the police brutality in Punjab and Bihar. Coming down heavily on the Punjab police for beating up a woman, the apex court called the woman a 'braveheart'. ...
02:15 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the CBI on the plea of former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala's son, Ajay Chautala, against his conviction and 10 year sentence for illegally recruiting 3206 junior teachers in 2000. ...
02:10 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Bihar Police on Tuesday afternoon resorted to lathicharge against a group of protesting contract teachers. The teachers had been protesting peacefully when suddenly the police started raining blows on them. ...
04:41 PM, Mar 05, 2013
A class XII student allegedly raped his tuition teacher at her residence in Ghaziabad on Tuesday, police said. The 18-year-old student barged into the victim's house in Kavinagar area on Tuesday morning when she was alone at home and raped her, Station House Officer RP Sharma said. ...
12:53 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Supreme Court said it will hear next week former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's plea to restrain a television channel from telecasting an episode based on the teachers' recruitment scam for which he has been convicted. ...
11:25 AM, Mar 02, 2013
