Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal will launch an indefinite fast on Saturday to protest against the tariff hikes on electricity and water supply in the capital. The protest, being hailed as a civil disobedience movement by many, will seek to enlist mass support in defying the government by refusing to pay the bills. ...
05:48 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, is back to school. ...
10:48 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The Right to Education is not even a year old yet, but the whiff of a scam is already gathering steam in Karnataka. The schools in Karnataka say that families fake their income certificates which are generously issued by tahsildars to make themselves eligible to RTE, even as the really poor and the deserving are left out. ...
07:06 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education in her country, on Tuesday defied her attackers by returning to a school in Britain, where she underwent several surgeries. "I am excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school," she said after her first day of classes at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham. ...
11:45 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Four juveniles were caught in New Delhi for sexually assaulting a girl who studies with them in Class 11, said police on Monday. The delinquents have been sent to a juvenile justice home. ...
03:55 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The Shiv Sena protested at the premises of the Dr Antonio De Silva School where three six-year-old students were chained, paraded and made to clean toilets as punishment. Shiv Sena leaders met the trustees of the school saying the teacher should be suspended pending inquiry. ...
01:25 PM, Mar 18, 2013
In a horrific incident in Mumbai, three 6-year-old students were chained and paraded around school as punishment for creating ruckus in class. They were also made to clean toilets. The police have now registered a case under the Juvenile Justice Act. ...
07:20 AM, Mar 18, 2013
On a cold winter's night in early 2011, some Syrian schoolboys drew a few slogans on a wall in a town the world had barely heard of. Two years on, more than 70,000 people have died in the bitter conflict that ensued, and calls for the West to give more help to the Syrian rebels are rising. ...
12:30 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Charlie Sheen is really angry that his nine-year-old daughter Sam had to face bullying at school. ...
12:43 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Two school children are feared dead after a truck rammed into the boundary wall of a government primary school on Friday. Six children have been injured in the accident. The truck driver has been arrested. ...
10:20 AM, Mar 15, 2013
In a major terror strike in the heart of Srinagar, a group of suspected fidayeen (suicide attackers) tried to storm a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Bemina area of the city and killed at least five security personnel and injured seven other before being shot dead in retaliatory fire. ...
01:50 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A brazen terror attack in the heart of Srinagar at a CRPF camp in Bemina, Srinagar on Wednesday left five CRPF personnel dead and seven injured. Intermittent firing is still on and the entire area near Bemina police school has been cordoned off. ...
01:12 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Arvind Kejriwal, Mohandas Pai, Wharton School, business schools, Wharton India Economic Forum, Narendra Modi, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Aam Aadmi Party ...
12:43 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien on Monday asked the government to consider including moral education in school curriculum. Speaking on the issue of moral values after it was raised in the house by nominated member K Parasaran after Question Hour, Kurien said he had also moved a resolution in this regard. ...
03:43 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The second day of the two-day Think Edu Conclave organised by the New Indian Express brought to the fore a kaleidoscope of views on India's education sector. ...
10:24 PM, Mar 10, 2013
What ails India's growing schooling system? How can we create an education system that is secular, creative student centric? These were some of the key issues discussed during the two day Think Edu Conclave. ...
10:13 PM, Mar 10, 2013
After the Wharton snub, Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi addressed the Indian diaspora in the US via video conference. Modi addressed the Indian diaspora in Edison, New Jersey, Chicago and Illinois on March 9 at 8.00 pm (local time in US). Modi in a his charming manner stated that Gujarat has become a symbol of development. ...
07:16 AM, Mar 10, 2013
A civil lawsuit has been filed against a school district in California seeking to suspend a controversial yoga programme which parents feel "unlawfully" promote religious beliefs. ...
01:57 PM, Mar 09, 2013
A 17-year-old student studying in class XI delivered a baby boy in her hostel at a government residential girls school in Rajasthan's Nagaur district. The girl delivered the baby in a bathroom of the hostel early on Tuesday. ...
11:35 PM, Mar 06, 2013
A US man who was unable to pursue education in his childhood has finally earned a high school diploma at the ripe age of 106. Frederick J Butler of Beverly was born in a different time, more than seven years before any world war. ...
07:50 PM, Mar 06, 2013
