-The Times of India DAKSHIN BARASAT (South 24-Parganas): Every other house in this part of Bengal has a rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Saradha Group showed them a dream that was unbelievable when it lasted. But then reality struck a hard, bitter blow. Sixty-year-old Dulal Chandra Gharami walked back home tense on Monday afternoon. He was summoned to the Trinamool Congress office at Beliadanga, where he was asked to cough up protection money. For last four...
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Young IAS officer selected for PM's award for excellence in education -Aman Sharma
-The Economic Times Young IAS officer Omprakash Choudhary has won the Prime Minister's award for excellence in public administration for his stellar work in education in Chattisgarh's Dantewada district, the scene of country's worst Naxal insurgency. The 31-year-old officer of the 2005 batch was among the youngest recipients ever to receive the award on Sunday, which happens to be Civil Services Day in Delhi. "Dantewada district is my first posting as a...
More »Waiting for a new chapter in life to begin-Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu From the outside, it is just one of those private schools tucked away in an obscure corner that holds out the promise of convent-education, but once you are inside the poorly-lit building -- known as House No.16 -- in South-West Delhi's Bijwasan, you are confronted by the presence of countless buzzing flies and a pervading nauseating stench. This school with cramped classrooms and no students is home to grown...
More »Catholic school refuses to relax dress code for Muslim girl-Sushanta Talukdar
-The Hindu ‘We have nothing against Fathima, but cannot make a special case for her' Guwahati: The mother of a four-year-old Muslim girl has moved the Gauhati High Court after the authorities of a Catholic Mission-run school, Kristo Jyoti School, near Bokakhat in upper Assam's Golaghat district refused to allow her daughter Fathima Beevi to wear a ‘hijab' (headscarf) along with the school uniform. The school's authorities have given the girl's parents 15...
More »Minority students in Hyderabad sans Aadhaar may lose scholarship -Rohit PS
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Thousands of minority students in the city without an Aadhaar card may have to forgo their Centre-sponsored scholarship as the amount disbursal is coming to an end in a month's time and less than 20% of students have enrolled so far. The Centre has taken up direct benefit transfer through Aadhaar linkage on a pilot basis in Hyderabad, Chittoor, Anantapur, East Godavari and Rangareddy districts. The Centre approved...
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