-The Hindu Salem (Tamil Nadu): A total of 460 eggs were supplied every day to the students; on Monday and Tuesday all the 460 eggs were found rotten and disposed of. As many as 920 eggs that were supplied to the noon-meal centre at the Government Higher Secondary School in Siruvachur in Thalaivasal block here were found rotten after boiling and were disposed of on the school premises on Monday and Tuesday. A...
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Karnataka has highest dropout rate among Muslim students -Manu Aiyappa
-The Times of India BANGALORE: Karnataka, often called a "progressive state", has the highest dropout rate among Muslim students. On an average, 50,000 students from the community dropout of school each year, a majority of them at the high school level, according to a survey done by the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). The average dropout rate is 6.2% compared to the national average of less than 5%. "The statistics show a worrisome trend,"...
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-The Business Standard The Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows are being pampered with funds to serve for just two years The Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows scheme, announced two years ago, sounded like a novel way to connect educated youth to the problems of backward rural areas hit by Maoist violence. But it is now surrounded by questions as its financial size is now larger than the problem it seeks to solve...
More »12 crore first-time voters hold key to 2014 Lok Sabha polls -B Sivakumar
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Close to 12 crore youths will be eligible to vote for the first time in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. To put that in perspective, no single party garnered more than 12 crore votes in the 2009 polls, showing how significant this segment can be if all of them register to vote. In the 2009 polls, the Congress polled 11.9 crore votes, the BJP 7.8 crore, BSP...
More »Bhagalpur, Bhajanpur test State’s claims of neutrality -Prashant Jha
-The Hindu ‘Victims of communal carnage still struggling, socially and financially' Forbesganj/Bhagalpur: Bhajanpur village is a few kilometres off Bihar's showcase ‘four-lane,' as drivers call the highway, a far cry from the State's back-breaking roads of the past, near Forbesganj town. Residents tell us that those affected by the kaand incident, of two years ago, live a little ahead, in the Ansari basti. A bumpy ride across the village leads to Ale Rasool...
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