-The Times of India VARANASI: About 150 students of Bahadurpur primary school of Haldi area in Ballia district fell ill after consuming mid-day meal (MDM) on Saturday afternoon. Angered over the incident villagers attacked the school. Following initial scuffle with principal and teachers they locked themselves inside the rooms of school to save themselves from the angry mob of locals. All students were rushed to the district hospital where their condition started...
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Girls as good as boys in maths: NCERT survey -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The notion that girls are not good with numbers and science is just a myth, if data from a nationwide survey of more than 2.7 lakh students is any indicator. The survey conducted on Class X student showed girls performed on an equal footing with boys in mathematics, science and social sciences. The study, however, upheld another common conception — that girls have better language skills....
More »Manual Scavenging Flies in the Face of Swachh Bharat Mission -Pran K Vasudeva
-TheCitizen.in NEW DELHI: Clean India "Swachh Bharat Mission" (SBM) is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. The campaign was officially launched on October 2, 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road. It is projected as India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees including school...
More »CBSE and ICSE ace state boards -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Schoolchildren from national boards have outperformed those from the state boards in the first-ever standardised countrywide test of Class X pupils, carried out as part of a sample survey by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Students from the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, which conducts the ICSE exam, and the Central Board of Secondary Education have come out tops while Madhya Pradesh,...
More »The embroiders of Kutch -Lyla Bavadam
-Frontline The Living and Learning Design Centre in a Kutch village is about dialogue between contemporary designers and traditional artisans and about keeping crafts relevant. Kutch: “WHY here? Why a design centre of such sophistication in a small village off a highway?” The answer flashes in one’s mind at the same time: “Because that’s the most logical and relevant place for it.” The answer is validated a while later in a...
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