New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was concerned with the quality of the primary teacher and warned against a populist approach on appointments that could endanger India's future.
"It is too serious a matter for us. We are concerned with the future of the country," said the apex court bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra while hearing a petition by the Gujarat government on the appointment of Shiksha Sahayak (education assistants).
"A populist approach can't be allowed to destroy the fabric of the education," Justice Misra observed as court asked the state government to furnish the comparative statement giving the qualification, eligibility criterion and other requirements for the appointment as Vidya Sahayak and the primary teachers
"We want to understand the concept of education and what kind of quality (education) that is being given to them (primary school students)," the court said as senior counsel UU Lalit, appearing for the state government, sought to address some e queries raised by the court....
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05:15 AM, May 23, 2013
Mumbai: Kishore Biyani-promoted Future Group, which runs India's largest retail chain in both value and lifestyle formats, plans to increase the number of franchisee-based convenient stores to over 1,000 in the next two years. Currently, the company has 100 franchisee-based convenient stores in Delhi and 200 stores throughout Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. "We plan to expand to more than 1,000 convenient stores in these cities in the next two years,"...
10:45 AM, May 20, 2013
Singapore: Gold ticked up on Monday, holding near its highest level in more than a week, as a rebound in prices from a 2-year trough failed to curb investor appetite for the precious metal. Spot gold had risen $1.15 an ounce to $1,463.65 by 0025 GMT, having posted its biggest weekly gain in three months last week. Gold plunged to around $1,321 on April 16, its lowest in more than...
09:21 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Taking positive cues from the global market and rising physical demand in spot markets at prevailing levels, gold continued its recovery, rising by nearly one per cent to Rs 26,069 per 10 gm in futures trade on Saturday. Besides, covering-up by speculators who had created huge short positions, also helped gold to trade higher at futures trade. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, the most-active delivery in June contracts...
04:30 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Mumbai: Gold futures in India, which hit the lowest level in more than 18 months on Tuesday, may stage a recovery as key technical indicators point to the yellow metal entering oversold territory, according to analysts. Gold in India, the world's biggest buyer of the metal, has shed 21 per cent from the record high of Rs 32,464 for 10 grams struck in November, spreading panic among investors and importers....
03:10 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: Gold futures prices on Monday fell by 2.95 per cent to trade at a fifteen-month low of Rs 27,100 per ten gram as speculators engaged in offloading their positions after the precious metal dropped to a two-year low in overseas markets. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in June fell sharply by Rs 825, or 2.95 per cent, to Rs 27,100 per 10 gm, the lowest...
11:18 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New York: The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists and in wrap-around glasses is just a step towards a bigger revolution in screens - those that can be bent, folded and rolled up. Once freed from today's relatively heavy, breakable and fixed glass displays, tomorrow's devices may look very different, with screens that can be rolled out, attached to uneven surfaces, or...
03:19 PM, Apr 14, 2013
London: Actress Halle Berry, who is expecting a child with her French fiance Olivier Martinez, has assured fans that she will still be reprising her role as mutant superhero in 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past' despite her pregnancy. Berry, 42, said she will be less involved in action scenes due to her growing baby bump in the next instalment of the X-Men franchise, which is due to begin filming later...
10:11 AM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: One kilogram. That's what it weighed, the bulky prototype used for a wireless phone call by a Motorola engineer in 1973. For the real milestone 10 years later, a 790-gram Motorola DynaTAC made the first call from a commercial mobile phone, in a Mercedes in 1983. That makes the mobile 30 years old, and not the 40 that's being reported. Since then, it's been a long road to...
01:39 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Actress Halle Berry has confirmed she will reprise her role as Storm in the latest 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'. The Oscar-winning actress will play Storm in the Bryan Singer-directed mutant movie, and she can't wait to don her superhero outfit once again, reports contactmusic.com. ...
12:11 PM, Mar 05, 2013
In a revolutionary development, a Taiwanese company claims to have developed a gen-next transparent mobile phone which it says will be in the market by the year end. ...
02:36 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Ali Tauqueer Sheikh, Director Asia, Climate and Development Knowledge Network talks about the significance of having special focus development of developing nations. ...
06:31 PM, Jan 31, 2013
One often comes across observations made by even responsible policy makers that climate change negotiations over the past 25 years have achieved nothing. ...
03:41 PM, Jan 22, 2013
The outcome document of the Rio 20 summit, 'The Future We Want', marks an important advance in the incorporation of a human rights dimension in the UN development agenda. ...
12:30 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah is among the leaders and government officials from key renewable energy markets scheduled to attend the sixth World Future Energy Summit (WFES), to be held in Abu Dhabi from January 15-17. WFES is a leading platform for renewable energy innovation and investment and is part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. ...
11:05 AM, Jan 09, 2013
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is contemplating to allow foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in currency futures market, Deputy Governor HR Khan said on Wednesday. "We are thinking whether FIIs can participate in currency futures," Khan said while speaking at a seminar on capital markets organised by industry body CII in Mumbai. ...
09:45 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Mumbai: Top seed J Vishnu Vardhan had to dig deep into his reserves to overcome a spirited challenge from a rival placed 500 places below him and enter the singles second round in the USD 15,000 CCI-ITF men's Futures tennis tournament on Tuesday. Vishnu, who took part in singles as well as doubles (with veteran Leander Paes) at the London Games and played a key role in piloting India past...
07:49 PM, Oct 23, 2012
San Francisco: Intel Corp showed off hybrid tablets and ultrabook laptops with voice and gesture recognition technology along with an upcoming low-power chip in a bid to convince Wall Street a slump in the personal computer industry is only temporary. At the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company demonstrated a range of mobile devices, many of them crosses between tablets and laptops. Executives showed sleek...
11:29 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Philadelphia: If closing out a two-day festival with an intense two-hour set wasn't enough for Pearl Jam, then bringing out the man who organized it sealed the deal. Jay-Z joined the group for its second-to-last encore with a rocking version of his signature hit 99 Problems. While Jay closed out the first night of the Budweiser Made in America Festival, he handed the torch to the Seattle-based band grunge rockers...
11:48 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Indore: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday alleged that the BJP is maintaining "fictitious" accounts on social media and manipulating online surveys to project that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has an edge over Rahul Gandhi as future prime minister. "You know that there are a lot of fictitious accounts on social networking sites and the BJP is managing voting on such sites to show results in its favour,"...
08:01 PM, Sep 02, 2012
