Panaji: The Goa government will bring changes in the mid-day meal scheme to incorporate measures like improving the menu for better nutrition and participation of parents in monitoring quality of food.
"We are introducing healthy eating habits for students by replacing bread with chapati. Fruit would be the part of the mid-day meal menu for students once a week," a senior official of the Education department said.
The scheme is benefiting over one lakh students in 1,500 schools in two districts of the state, the official said. He said the state government was introducing new features in the scheme following a few incidents of food poisoning last year.
"Foods like flavoured milk, upama, idli are being introduced replacing sheera (sweet dish made up of rawa) for students," the official said. Among other measures, the government has expanded the scheme to cover Class IX and X students as well. Earlier, students up to Class VIII were only covered under the scheme....
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01:10 PM, May 22, 2013
Noida: Five men, who had abducted two BBA students of Amity for ransom, have been sent to police custody. A District and Sessions court on Monday granted the custody of the five men to the police. While one of the accused had surrendered at the court yesterday, the four others were earlier arrested by Uttar Pradesh special task force and Noida Police. The five men had kidnapped the students on...
10:55 PM, May 21, 2013
The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Examination (RBSE)on Tuesday declared the results for the Senior Secondary (Arts) 2013 Examinations. Candidates can log on to www.rajresults.nic.in to check their results. Jaipur girl Bharti Gautam topped the exams while Mahendra Godara from Suratgarh secured the second position. The total pass percentage is 80.6 per cent in the 12th Board (Arts) exams. Girls outperformed boys this year with a pass percentage of 88.55 per...
01:09 PM, May 21, 2013
The validity of the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS/postgraduate/dental and postgraduate courses has been questioned by several states and private institutions. Is medical education in a mess in India? Dr Arvind Gautam, chief co-ordinator, Sankalp Medicos Movement Association (SMMA), joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Medical Education is a commercial mess and the business is not Good. How one justifies parents...
05:44 PM, May 14, 2013
Kolkata: Violence broke out on Tuesday at an anti-chit fund rally, held by Democratic Students Organisation (student wing of Socialist Unity Centre of India) in Kolkata. Police had to resort to lathicharge to disperse the participants of the rally, who were trying to hold a law violation programme. There are reports of injuries on both sides. More details are awaited. ...
03:35 PM, May 14, 2013
The Supreme Court has ruled that there will be no single entrance exam for PG medical and dental colleges this year. States which didn't conduct their own exams will follow the NEET results, but they are not binding on all states. ...
07:33 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgement will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July. The Supreme Court has also left the option of following the NEET result on the colleges. This means...
02:45 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday decide the fate of 90,000 medical aspirants after it takes a decision on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) or the common entrance test for MBBS, Dental and PG medical courses. This comes more than a month after a CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how PG medical seats were being sold in black in clear violation of a Supreme Court order. Meanwhile, it...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2013
Mumbai: National Students Union of India's (NSUI) Mumbai unit President Suraj Singh Thakur has been suspended for allegedly dancing naked at a party function. Thakur was suspended on Monday for dancing naked. He had been re-elected as NSUI President in December 2012. It is still unclear as to what made Thakur do it. Reports say that there may have been a ragging of sorts with seniors asking the new entrants...
10:18 AM, May 07, 2013
Coimbatore: A lab assistant in a local private college today allegedly threw acid on two staff injuring them and two girl students, and later tried to commit suicide by consuming cyanide, police said. Police said Muthusamy (47) threw acid on Ravisankar and Laxmansamy this afternoon over some personal dispute. Some acid also fell on two girl students. Both the victims were admitted to different private hospitals while the two girls...
03:46 AM, May 04, 2013
Kolkata: The father of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a CBI probe into the death of his son, saying that a fair investigation was not possible by any state agency. The petition by Pranab Kumar Gupta also appealed that the investigation into the death of Sudipto be monitored by the court, his counsels Bikash Bhattacharya and Rabishankar Chattopadhyay said. Stating that only the...
07:21 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Tiruchirappalli: A total of 74 students from the first batch (2011-13) of IIM Tiruchirappalli (IIM-T) have been placed with companies such as Cognizant, KPMG and BPCL, among others, at annual salaries ranging from Rs 11.5-18.25 lakh, the premier management institute has said. These successful placements for the 2011-13 batch were notwithstanding the difficult economic environment, an IIM-T release said, adding that this was the largest first batch among new IIMs...
11:03 AM, Apr 30, 2013
A considerable number of Delhi University Faculty members want the newly-introduced four-year undergraduate course to be scrapped while the administration wants to go ahead with the new format. Satish Deshpande, Sociology professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on what the major points of disagreement are. Q. Personally, what do you feel will benefit the students? Asked by: Saurav Tiwari A. What will benefit...
05:08 PM, Apr 29, 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
Medical students are caught in a standoff between private colleges and the government. As both parties argue over the need for a common entrance test or NEET, the students say they stand to lose an academic year. ...
11:46 AM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: After exposing the rot in medical education, CNN-IBN now turns its focus to the plight of medical students who are caught in the stand-off between private colleges and the government. With the Supreme Court decision on the single entrance exam National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) still pending, admissions are yet to happen, leaving the future of 90,000 students hanging. The suspense is leading to anger and frustration...
10:51 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Jammu: An association of students in Ladakh on Tuesday held a protest against Chinese incursion into Indian territory and demanded that the Centre act firmly to counter the aggressive posturing of troops from across the border. In the protest held outside Jammu University, members of Ladakh Students' Association shouted slogans against the incursion by Chinese troops in the Daulat Baig Oldi (DBO) sector and urged the government against acting as...
02:44 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: All the six activists of the Students Federation of India (SFI), who were arrested on Monday for allegedly heckling West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission office in Delhi earlier in April, have been granted bail on Rs 5000 personal bong and surety. Those arrested included SFI General Secretary Ritabrata Bandhopadhyay, Delhi CPI(M) Secretary PMS Grewal, Delhi State Committee...
05:08 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday arrested the General Secretary of Students Federation of India (SFI) and five others in connection with the heckling incident during which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra were attacked by suspected SFI activists in Delhi as they tried to enter the Planning Commission building. The Trinamool Congress on Monday warned that it will not allow Parliament to...
11:57 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Women and student activists on Sunday converged near India Gate, which had witnessed large scale anti-rape protests in December 2012, demanding justice for the five-year-old rape survivor in the national capital. Student protesters from JNU tried to march towards India Gate but were prevented from moving closer. They staged protests near Patiala House court complex. Some students were stopped near Taj Mansingh hotel. Women activists also reached near...
06:44 PM, Apr 21, 2013
