Anand: Expressing concern over malnutrition in Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked the people to give attention to the health of their children to tackle the menace. Modi was speaking at a Shala Praveshotsav (school enrollment) function at Megalpur village in Sojitra taluka in the district in Anand.
"This is the same district from where rivers of milk flows," Modi said apparently referring to Amul. "But I find children here are malnourished...A child looks similar to clothes left to dry on a clothes hanger," he said adding "it is sad sad to see such (malnourished) children." The chief minister urged parents to be attentive towards their child's health and help the state combat the problem of malnutrition. At another function at Devawanta village in Sojitra taluka, is 25 km from Anand, he said there is high rate of female illiteracy in the district.
"Anand is a district known for a large number of Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). But here, female illiteracy is high. Out of the 100 females, only 30 are literate. Because of illiteracy, we are feeling ashamed," Modi said in his address. He appealed to the villagers, teachers and schools to spread the "light of education in all the villages of Gujarat by binding each other with emotional attachment and developing this quality in children from their childhood."...
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12:06 AM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: A professor from IIT Delhi, Dr VK Tripathi, has been spreading communal harmony by teaching 400 madrasa teachers Maths and Science over the past seven years. As a teacher at the Madrasa Dar-ul-uloom Rahmania, Maulana Abdul Jabbar dedicates his entire day to the teaching of Urdu, Quran and the Shariah. Now, he and his son attend the workshop by Dr Tripathi in Maths and Physics, specially meant for...
09:50 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Jajpur: An eight-year old girl was sexually exploited allegedly by a teacher who gave her private tuition in Urdu in Vyas Nagar town in Odisha's Jajpur district. According to a complaint filed with the police by the girl's father, his daughter, a student of class III in an English medium school at Vyas Nagar took private tuitions from Muzafar Housen, a teacher at a madrasa at Ahmadnagar. The girl told...
03:05 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday addressed more then 2.2 lakh teachers in the state through video conference and urged them to be teachers in real sense and inspire children. "A teacher who is only waiting for the bell to end the day can never shape minds. But a teacher who thinks about the pupil, the pupil's future, is the true teacher," Modi said in his address after...
08:24 PM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: Several protesters including teachers and students were briefly detained after they gathered at India Gate on Monday to protest against the introduction of Delhi University's four-year programme. The protesters under the aegis of Joint Action Front for Democratic Education had gathered to hold a candle-light march against the new programme when they were "forcefully" taken to Parliament Street police station. "The police snatched our placards, manhandled women, disabled...
11:24 PM, Jun 03, 2013
When Devanik Saha started teaching in 2011, Nishika was three years behind her grade level. Despite numerous assignments and standardised tests over two academic years, she made only a tiny progress of 0.7 years (about eight-and-a-half months) in maths and 0.5 years (six months) in English. "She was never taught properly in school due to lack of invested teachers," says Saha who teaches maths, English and science at Pratibha Nigam...
11:01 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Patna: A school headmaster, the main accused in the alleged burning alive of a schoolteacher, surrendered in court on Saturday, police said. After surrendering, Sanjay Singh claimed he was innocent. School teacher Ranjit Kumar Razak, 40, was burnt alive May 30 in Bihar's Purnia district. Sanjay Singh had been booked on a complaint by Razak's wife. A police officer said that a group of teachers, along with the principal of...
03:56 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Jind: Angry over allegations that a teacher at a government school in the Mohammed Kheda area in Jind had tried to defame a girl, locals on Tuesday beat him up in the presence of several policemen. Jagjivan Khedi, a teacher at the primary section of Government Senior Secondary School in the Mohammed Kheda area was beaten up by a group of villagers following allegations that he was trying to defame...
02:49 AM, May 29, 2013
Gurgaon: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday visited former chief minister and INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala in a hospital in Gurgaon to inquire about his health. The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader has been admitted to Medanta Medicity hospital with a heart problem, an official spokesperson said. On reaching the hospital, Hooda first went to the 15th floor and inquired about the health of Congress leader...
05:32 AM, May 27, 2013
Islamabad: Seventeen children and a teacher were charred to death in Pakistan's Punjab province on Saturday when the bus taking them to school caught fire apparently due a leaking gas cylinder. Seven children were injured in the incident on the outskirts of Gujrat city, located about 200 km from Islamabad. The driver fled from the scene and police were conducting raids to arrest him. Police officials said the vehicle's gas...
11:14 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala will be released from jail on Thursday after the Delhi High Court granted him an interim bail for six weeks to undergo a heart surgery. Chautala, 78, is serving prison time for his involvement in the 2000 teachers' recruitment scam. The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief was asked to furnish a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh along with two...
07:34 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was on Tuesday granted interim bail for six weeks by the Delhi High Court for undergoing pacemaker implant surgery at a hospital. "In view of the facts and circumstances of the case and considering the medical report of the appellant/applicant, the applicant's sentence shall be suspended for a period of six weeks," Justice Siddharth Mridul said while granting the interim bail....
04:59 PM, May 21, 2013
Gujarat: The Supreme Court on Monday severely criticised the Gujarat government of Chief Minister Narendra Modi over its Vidya Sahayak scheme. The court came down heavily on the Modi government on the recruitment process of vidya sahayaks in government primary schools. In a stinging criticism a bench of justices BS Chauhan and Dipak Misra asked the Gujarat government to explain why full time teachers were not being recruited even after...
02:11 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has pulled up the Gujarat government once again, this time over the appointment of part-time teachers instead of full-time ones in primary schools. The apex court was critical of the Modi government's policy of appointing Vidya Sahayaks in place of teachers in primary schools. It has questioned the government on ignoring the Right To Education Act. The apex court has asked the state government to...
02:54 PM, May 20, 2013
Alipore: A lady teacher who was arrested for allegedly banging a class III student's head against a wall as punishment leading to his death was on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Alipore ACJM, SM Shahnawaz, remanded Champa Mondal of the Nirdheshkhali Shishu Shiksha Kendra in South 24 Parganas district to judicial custody and she would be produced before the court again on June 1. Mondal allegedly banged the...
06:33 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Signalling apossible realignment of his party's alliance in Haryana, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Thursday met INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala at a hospital in Delhi, party sources said. They said Rajnath Singh, accompanied by party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, met Chautala at the Ram Manohar Hospital in Delhi. The leaders of two parties are learnt to have discussed current political developments during the meeting which lasted...
04:46 AM, May 17, 2013
Srinagar: A government school teacher in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district has been suspended by authorities after he uploaded a picture of small school children massaging his legs on social networking website Facebook. Teacher Bashir Ahmad ran into trouble with the Anantnag district authorities after there was outrage on Facebook over the manner in which he made the kids massage him. The state education director has expressed horror at the...
02:36 PM, May 14, 2013
Hamirpur: A local court on Friday sentenced a school teacher to eight years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 in a rape case committed in March 2012. A class VIII student of the Government School, Kiyarabagh in Hamirpur district had lodged a complaint in Badsar police on June 2, 2012, that a teacher had raped her on March 24 and was repeatedly harassing her. The victim had stopped...
03:57 AM, May 04, 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
Bhubaneswar: A teacher was arrested on Tuesday in Odisha's Sambalpur district for molesting an eight-year-old-girl in the school classroom, police said. The 28-year-old offender, an art and crafts teacher in a private school at the district headquarters town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly gave the students some drawing assignments and started watching an obscene video on his laptop. After finishing her drawing, the girl went...
04:40 AM, Apr 24, 2013
