New Delhi: The Bilara trial court on Friday directed the Rajasthan police to investigate kidnapping and murder charges against state PHED minister Mahipal Maderna in the Bhanwari Devi case. Bhanwari Devi, a Dalit nurse from Jodhpur, has been missing for the past 20 days. Her husband on Wednesday filed a complaint alleging that his wife might have been killed at the behest of a minister in the Gehlot government. Bhanwari...
05:07 PM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: Missing Dalit nurse Bhanwari Devi's husband on Wednesday filed a complaint of kidnapping and suspected murder in Bilada's trial court. Bhanwari Devi's husband levels allegation of blackmail against Rajasthan PHED minister Mahipal Maderna. The matter will be heard in court on Wednesday. The CBI had taken over the case. Bhanwari Devi went missing after a controversial CD surfaced showing her and Rajasthan PHED Minister Mahipal Maderna. ...
10:19 AM, Sep 21, 2011
Jaipur: A slip of tongue by the Rajasthan Police Chief implying that missing Dalit nurse Bhanwari Devi is dead could mean more trouble for the Gehlot government. Her family fears she was murdered. Anger is mounting in Jodhpur against Mahipal Maderna, the Minister accused of getting her abducted and allegedly killed and Dalit groups and the Opposition say he must resign. BJP District President (rural) Gaj Singh said, "He should...
08:29 AM, Sep 20, 2011
Jaipur: The Jodhpur police suspect gangster Shahabuddin of being involved in Rajasthani nurse Bhanwari Devi's abduction. Bhanwari Devi mysteriously went missing a couple of weeks back. The case of the missing nurse is getting murkier everyday, with sleaze, political ambition and crime all adding up. Bhanwari Devi, missing for over two weeks now, was allegedly kidnapped on the orders of Rajasthan PHED minister Mahipal Maderna. Now it appears that the...
09:47 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Jaipur: Bhanwari Devi, an auxiliary nurse and midwife from Jodhpur has been missing for 12 days. And her absence has begun to stir up a political whirlwind in Rajasthan. Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchan has alleged that his wife may have been killed at the behest of a minister in the Gehlot government, Mahipal Maderna. Amarchand says Maderna called her regularly, and that his family is now facing a threat. Bhanwari's...
09:47 AM, Sep 15, 2011
A retired employee of KEM Hospital's ward number four, Tidi Makwana has served Aruna Shanbaug for 25 years. ...
11:56 AM, Mar 07, 2011
The Supreme Court, while rejecting Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea praised KEM hospital for taking care of her. ...
11:38 AM, Mar 07, 2011
As schools display admission lists online, parents complain that websites hang due to traffic. ...
02:04 PM, Feb 01, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has promised action against private schools which are charging as much 16 times what the forms should cost for nursery admissions. Reacting to the Cobrapost-CNN-IBN expose, Sheila asked for the CDs of the report and said she will take action against the erring schools. A government rule states that the admission forms shouldn't cost more than Rs 25 but the report showed how...
04:52 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Aruna Chopra highlights the problems she faces over nursery admissions even when they apply under EWS quota. ...
12:14 PM, Jan 14, 2011
New Delhi: The scramble for nursery admissions began in the national capital, on Saturday, with schools starting to sell admission forms. This year the admission process has been delayed by over a month; something that parents aren't too happy about. Instead of making holiday plans this season, Shweta Jain is tutoring her four-year-old twins at home. With the sale of nursery admission forms starting on the 1st day of the...
08:59 AM, Jan 01, 2011
New Delhi: The confusions over nursery admissions in Delhi schools came to an end with the Education Ministry finally announcing the guidelines for admissions for 2011, on Wednesday. According to the guidelines, 75 per cent seats will be reserved for the general category while, 25 per cent seats will have to be reserved for economically weaker sections (EWS) category. The new guidelines also give schools the room to formulate their...
04:17 PM, Dec 15, 2010
New Delhi: Confusion over nursery admissions in the capital continued, on Monday as a meeting to sort out differences between the government and private schools ended without any decision though a minister said they were expected to come out with the guidelines on Wednesday. Private school managements are insisting that the existing 100-point system devised by the Ashok Ganguly Committee three years ago be retained during the admission process while...
08:30 PM, Dec 13, 2010
New Delhi: The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry proposed new guidelines, giving sleepless nights to anxious parents who want to get their children admitted to nursery schools. The seats for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) are likely to increase by 25 per cent. Some schools also have a management quota of upto 20 per cent. If the EWS quota is implemented, it would leave only 55 per cent of the...
10:15 PM, Dec 06, 2010
Melbourne: Hundreds of foreign student nurses, mostly from India, are facing deportation from Australia for lack of proficiency in English. Nursing students are facing the threat of being sent back home after almost completing their courses and having landed lucrative job offers. The students estimated to number 400 from India, China, Thailand and Philippines are in this situation as according to them the authorities have changed "goal posts" midway, by...
05:55 PM, Aug 09, 2010
Kennedy Swamy, who migrated to Australia from India in 2006, was working as a nurse in Melbourne. ...
11:27 AM, Apr 08, 2010
HRD Ministry recommended Delhi Govt to increase the age of admission. ...
11:34 AM, Feb 16, 2010
The language of education in state board schools is Kannada. ...
11:13 PM, Dec 16, 2009
