Jharkhand's Navin Kujur, a student of Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture, has suffered serious injuries after he was allegedly ragged by some of his seniors in the hostel. The seniors allegedly ragged and physically tortured Kujur so severely that he had to undergo surgery. ...
02:20 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a mass shooting in her Arizona district two years ago, met with Newtown officials on January 4 afternoon before heading to visit with families of the victims of last month's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. ...
01:18 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, Ajay Singh, on Friday demanded that School Education Minister Archana Chitnis be removed from the state Cabinet for organising the marriage of a minor girl. Chitnis organised the marriage under the 'Kanyadan Scheme' on Friday. ...
08:05 AM, Jan 05, 2013
A Muslim couple have sued a school in Britain after it banned students from wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf or hijab, a media report said on Thursday. ...
03:43 AM, Jan 04, 2013
The Delhi government Thursday directed all private and government schools to remain closed till January 12 in view of the intense cold in the capital. ...
02:43 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Students will return to classes at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Thursday after a month since the deadly massacre left 26 dead in the Newton, Connecticut school. Dozens of people have worked tirelessly over the holidays to bring the school back to normality. ...
03:39 PM, Jan 03, 2013
As things heat up down south, North India continues to battle a harsh winter with the mercury dropping to three degrees below normal at most places. ...
06:31 AM, Jan 03, 2013
As the year winds down to a close US President Barack Obama has said the school shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, was the worst day of his presidency. ...
11:27 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Security forces have busted a Naxal training camp following an encounter with the ultras during a search operation conducted in Jappemarka forests in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a top police official said on Sunday. A couple of detonators, battery, wire, Maoist literature, ration, medicines in large quantity and other naxal-related materials, besides books, stationery items and stitching machines were recovered from the camping site, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range)...
08:48 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Nearly seven in 10 Americans support the idea of placing strong or moderate limits gun ownership following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. ...
05:48 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Anger and outrage in the city against the gangrape of a 23-year-old girl has caused the civic agency-run primary schools in New Delhi to announce that girl students and woman teachers would be trained to defend themselves. ...
02:01 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Some miscreants tried to pull a school student in their car while she was returning from school in Bareily, Uttar Pradesh just a week after the spine-chilling and brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old in a moving bus in Delhi. ...
12:05 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Oscar award winning musician AR Rahman performed live in Mumbai to mark the tenth anniversary of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School. ...
10:53 AM, Dec 25, 2012
A student of a primary school in northwest China was hospitalised when his class teacher ordered other students to slap him one-by-one for not doing school homework. ...
01:33 AM, Dec 23, 2012
He was the awkward, peculiar kid who wore the same clothes to school every day. He rarely spoke and even gave a school presentation entirely by computer, never uttering a word. He liked tinkering with computers and other gadgets, and seemed to enjoy playing a violent video game, choosing a military-style assault rifle as one of his weapons. ...
07:13 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Four people died on a Pennsylvania highway on Friday when a gunman shot dead three people and later was killed in a shootout with police, according to Pennsylvania media, citing authorities. Three state troopers were injured in the incident in Frankstown Township, about 160 km east of Pittsburgh. ...
02:07 PM, Dec 22, 2012
The powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby in the United States called on Friday for the deployment of armed guards in every school in the country, weighing in on gun violence for the first time since a school shooting a week ago that shocked Americans. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," Wayne LaPierre, the head of the lobby...
02:03 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Adam Lanza used to slither through hallways, pressing himself against the wall while wearing the same green shirt and khaki pants every day. ...
01:27 PM, Dec 22, 2012
More than 600 parents in China's eastern Zhejiang province were shocked and furious to receive a text message from their children's school calling pupils "a piece of s**t." ...
01:10 PM, Dec 22, 2012
More than 600 parents in China's eastern Zhejiang province were shocked and furious to receive a text message from their children's school calling pupils "a piece of s**t." Xin Ou primary school sent out a mass text message to Wenzhou parents on Tuesday that said "this student is basically a stupid piece of s**t, how was s/he ever born?" ...
01:27 AM, Dec 22, 2012
