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Rising cost of education worries parents, survey shows -Himanshi Dhawan

-The Times of India While the cost of private education has always been prohibitive, education in government-run institutions has also increased sharply in the last one month with the HRD ministry taking the decision to hike under-graduate fees in IITs by 80%. Earlier, the fees for Kendriya Vidyalaya students increased three-fold from Rs 4,500 to Rs 12,000 annually. The KV fee hike impacts 11 lakh students in 1,090 schools. The last fee...

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MP to blacklist sexual offenders from govt jobs

-The Times of India BHOPAL/JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh government is compiling a list of convicted sexual offenders to ensure that they do not get government jobs as part of a series of measures to check crimes against women in the state. A government spokesperson said a DSP rank officer will be appointed in each district to check such crimes and that charge-sheets in these cases will be filed within two weeks. There has...

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Delhi Police to hire additional 2,508 police women -Vishwa Mohan

-The Times of India After asking the Delhi Police to make women cops available at all the 180 police stations in the national capital, the Centre on Friday moved to recruit an additional 2,508 women police personnel for the city and asked all the states to replicate this model by increasing the number of women in police forces to 33% of their total strength. The Centre also asked all the states and...

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Rights, gender studies for CBSE XI, XII students -Aarti Dhar

-The Hindu The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will introduce “Human Rights and Gender Studies” for Class XI and XII students from the coming academic year. The subject will be elective. Similarly, a handbook for teachers, “Women Safety and Empowerment through curriculum,” will be introduced in the training courses by the National Council for Teachers Education. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has been receiving representations for promoting value education in schools...

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Death for Kasab: Govt guided by SC’s ‘rarest of rare’ stand-Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Economic Times The government did not waste much time in recommending to the President that Ajmal Kasab's clemency plea be rejected as the Supreme Court had said three months ago that if death sentence was to be imposed only in "one in a million case" , then this was the one which deserved capital punishment. The court, upholding the decision of the trial court which was affirmed by the Bombay high...

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