-Live Mint Unesco lauds government effort, political commitment in implementing Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan New Delhi: Bringing cheer to India's administrators, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) said the country has progressed the most in the world in sending children to schools by committed implementation of its right to education law and universal elementary education programme. "India has made the largest progress in absolute terms of any country in the world...
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School expels 28 students for not paying 'excess fee' -Manish Raj
-The Times of India CHENNAI: The fate of 28 students of Doveton Higher Secondary School in Kilpauk, expelled on Monday for not paying the"excess fee", remains uncertain. The school's Student Parent Welfare Association (SPWA), which has been protesting against the"arbitrary fee hike" for the last three years, said the problem began in 2010 when the fee was more than doubled. After several negotiations with the management and complaints to some government officials,...
More »Why the death penalty must end-Kanimozhi
-The Hindu Lawmakers are eager to appear resolute in the fight against crime, but seem to forget that certainty of punishment, not severity, is the real deterrent "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," said Mahatma Gandhi. The death penalty is unjust and inhuman. Its continued use is a stain on a society built on humanitarian values, and it should be abolished immediately. Many think that there could be nothing wrong...
More »Akhilesh’s laptop bonanza for 8,000 students -Purusharth Aradhak & Ayaskant Das
-The Times of India GHAZIABAD: In a function here on Monday, UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav distributed laptops to about 8,000 students from Ghaziabad and Noida in the presence of senior party leaders. The students belonged to the first batch shortlisted in the two districts-including 5,598 students from 10 schools in Ghaziabad and 2,476 students from five schools in Gautam Budh Nagar-for receiving free laptops as promised by the party. Akhilesh was...
More »School for the blind achieves 100% results this year too -V Devanathan
-The Times of India MADURAI: While conventional schools strive hard to produce 100% pass in state board examination, a special school for visually impaired children in Sundararajanpatti has produced centum results quite convincingly. This is not first time it has achieved this feat. It has been doing so for the last 18 years. In the SSLC examination results announced on Friday, all the 23 visually impaired students who appeared for the examination...
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