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Why has RTE hit a roadblock in Andhra Pradesh?

-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Nithin Gollamudi, a city student dreams to be a doctor and secretly wants to be the state topper in medical entrance examination. Belonging to an economically and socially backward family, the 12-year-old who was helping his father in a masonry shop in Chotuppal till two years ago even while going to a nearby government school says that it would have been impossible for him to dream...

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Shankarpura: India's first tobacco-free village-Vedant Singhania

-CNN-IBN   Shankarpura: Welcome to India's perhaps only tobacco-free village - Shankarpura in Haryana, that comes as a breath of fresh air, quite literally. While elders puffing the traditional hookah, and discussing worldly issues has been a part of Haryana's socio-cultural milieu, the village of Shankarpura chose to break away from the tradition by becoming perhaps the only village in the country which is free from tobacco.   Manpal Singh Selwal, Chairman of the Block...

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UP govt waives off tuition fees for girl students from Class XI to XII

-The Indian Express CM Akhilesh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government has waived off tuition fees for girl students of all sections of society from Class IX to XII. "As per the order issued by the state government no tuition fee will be taken from girl students from Class IX to XII," District Inspector of Schools Umesh Tripathi said today. The order would be applicable to all government, aided and non-aided recognised schools of UP...

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UGC plans anti-caste bias regulations for campuses-Prashant K Nanda

Call it a strategy to garner political support for passing pending key education Bills or a progressive measure to reduce caste bias in colleges and universities—the central government has put in place a set of rules that can possibly stop grants or cancel recognition of higher educational institutes engaging in such discrimination. The new rules set out by the University Grants Commission (UGC) aim to provide safeguards to students of reserved...

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Airport concessionaire made a fortune out of land acquired at Rs. 4 per square yard from Delhi farmers - Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Farmers, whose land was acquired at a meagre Rs. 4 per square yard in South West Delhi way back in 1955 in the name of undertaking planned development, have now seized upon the opportunity raised by the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India — on the loss caused to the exchequer by leasing away of some of this very land by Indira Gandhi International Airport concessionaire Delhi...

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