-Live Mint CBSE ties up with Pearson Education India, the local arm of British education company Pearson Plc, to conduct assessments New Delhi: Schools that follow the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) system are moving to better assess students' ability to grasp what they are taught in class and their readiness to move to the next level, at least partly out of concern over reports questioning the quality of India's...
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'Central forces required for rural polls in Bengal'
-The Hindu Kolkata: Emphasising the need for deploying Central paramilitary forces for conducting free and fair rural polls in the State, counsel for the State Election Commission told the Calcutta High Court here on Thursday that it was akin to handing over investigations of a sensitive case to the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) to ensure an "impartial" probe. At the hearing, counsel for the Commission Samaraditya Pal, cited various instances where...
More »Arrest ADGP in Ishrat case, orders CBI court
-The Hindu Ahmedabad: In another blow to the Gujarat police, already in the dock for a series of fake encounter killings, a special CBI sessions court on Thursday ordered the CBI Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate to issue an arrest warrant against Additional Director- General of Police (CID Crime) P.P. Pandey in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate had turned down a plea by the CBI to issue...
More »Spain-bound Jharkhand footballers slapped, abused for seeking birth certificates -Vijay Murty
-The Hindustan Times Ranchi: A Team of female footballers from Jharkhand on the verge of making history at a tournament in Spain is allegedly facing severe abuse from panchayat officials angling for bribes. The members of Yuva Football Club, mostly poor tribals between 12 to 14 years of age, said they were slapped and even made to sweep floors when they went to the panchayat office on the outskirts of state capital...
More »Gujarat schools struggle to match RTE needs
-DNA Ahmedabad: Of three government schools of classes I to V surveyed in Kheda district, none maintained the pupil-room ratio according to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education. Similarly, 100% of the 12 schools surveyed in Kutch did not maintain the ratio. According to the RTE Act, 2009, every proposed classroom should have a carpet area of 8 sq feet for every student, in addition to a 60...
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