Tag: School
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Ryan murder: School trustees seek anticipatory transit bail
The trustees of the Ryan International Schools on Monday filed an application in the Bombay High Court seeking anticipatory transit bail to move an appropriate court in Haryana in a seven-year-old’s death at their Gurugram school, official sources said here. Augustine F. Pinto and his wife Grace Pinto, trustees of the St Xaviers Education Trust...
September 11, 2017 -
One year on, justice eludes parents of another Ryan student
The death of a seven-year-old student in Gurugram’s Ryan International School has once again raised the concern of parents over the safety standards in schools in the National Capital Region (NCR). Last year, a six-year-old student, Divyansh Kakrora, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at another Ryan International School in Vasant Kunj, Delhi, area on...
September 9, 2017 -
Class 2 boy found murdered in Gurgaon school
A Class 2 student of Ryan International School in Sohna area here was on Friday found dead on the campus with his throat slit, police said. Some students found Pradhuman Thakur (7) lying in a pool of blood in a toilet in the school building around 8:30 am, they said. “The students alerted the teachers...
September 8, 2017 -
Many Delhi schools don’t have science, commerce streams: HC to CBSE
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to the central and state governments and the CBSE on a plea alleging that the majority of government schools in the national capital are not offering their students science and commerce streams at the intermediate level. A division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal asked...
September 8, 2017 -
Heavy rains force closure of Patna schools
All public and private schools here were closed on Friday after heavy rains lashed the Bihar capital, inundating most of the low lying areas and leaving roads waterlogged, officials said. "Patna district Magistrate Sanjay Agrawal has ordered closure of all schools on August 4 to provide relief to children in view of heavy rains since...
August 4, 2017 -
No plans to remove Tagore from school books: Javadekar
The government has no plan to remove Ravindranath Tagore from school textbooks, HRD Minister Prakash Javedekar told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Responding to the issue raised by Derek O'Brien (TMC) during the Zero Hour, the Minister said the government respected Tagore and all others who had contributed to the freedom and literature of the country....
July 25, 2017 -
50 students trapped in school due to Pak shelling
Around 50 students of a government high school were trapped due to heavy mortar shelling by the Pakistan army in the Naushera sector in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, an official said. Authorities, however, managed to rescue 12 children from a primary school. The Pakistan army violated ceasefire in four sectors of Rajouri and Poonch...
July 18, 2017 -
Students of over 50 Hyderabad schools, colleges found taking drugs
Authorities here have asked as many as 27 colleges and 26 schools to take steps to check use of drugs by their students after a probe found that over 1,000 students, some of them as young as 13 are using 'high-end' drugs like LSD and MDMA, an official said on Wednesday. Advisories were sent to the...
July 5, 2017 -
Haryana’s govt schools to have purified drinking water soon
To provide purified drinking water enriched with necessary minerals to students studying in government schools in Haryana, the state government on Tuesday has decided to install Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems in all government schools of the state. Initially, this facility would be made available in urban schools from 2018, and later, it would be extended...
July 4, 2017 -
US state allows college students, teachers to carry guns
Students and professors will be legally allowed to carry concealed handguns onto college campuses in the US state of Kansas. The concealed carry law was enacted four years ago and applied to all public buildings, but colleges in the Midwestern state were exempted until July of this year. The law is the latest in a...
July 1, 2017 -
Coping with failure in a bygone era
The day results of annual examinations are announced in schools is important not only for students but for parents as well. It is a day of tense waiting when hopes are realised for some and dashed for others, when minds of the young confront a range of feelings from elation to despondency, disappointment to pleasant...
June 17, 2017 -
Zakir Naik’s school in Mumbai illegal, says civic body
The Mumbai civic body's education department has said that controversial preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic International School (IIS) in south Mumbai is operating without authorisation. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's south Mumbai region education inspector B B Chavan, in a letter issued yesterday, stated that no school can run without the NOC (no objection certificate) of the local...
June 15, 2017 -
Parrikar government may introduce yoga in school curriculum
The BJP-led government in Goa is toying with the idea of introducing 'yoga' as part of value education in the curriculum of the state board. "The syllabus of the Goa board of secondary and higher secondary education has become easy compared to CBSE. We will improve the syllabus by giving thrust on quality education in...
June 7, 2017 -
School sends expulsion notices to students over fee hike
A private school in suburban Dahisar has sent expulsion notices to a group of students because their parents had protested against a fee hike by the institution. The move by the school came even after an assurance by Maharashtra Education minister Vinod Tawde that the issue of the "unjustified" hike would be resolved. Tawde himself...
May 27, 2017 -
Triply blessed
Exactly 35 years after the Left Front scrapped the study of English at the primary level and with disastrous consequences, the Trinamul government’s decision to introduce what it calls the “three-language formula” from Classes One to Ten deserves unqualified support. In retrospect, the dropping of English had caused far greater damage to a generation than...
May 18, 2017 -
HC seeks Centre, CBSE reply on plea over school textbooks
The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Centre on a plea seeking quashing of a CBSE circular allegedly forcing schools to prescribe text books printed by printers empanelled with the NCERT only. Justice AK Pathak issued notice to the Ministry of Human Resource and Development and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and...
May 15, 2017 -
Pakistani students using WhatsApp to cheat in school exams
School students in Pakistan’s Karachi are accessing WhatsApp groups with solved question papers to cheat in exams as authorities struggle to crackdown on rampant cheating in city schools, the media reported on Wednesday. Students are using mobile phones as well as "notes" to cheat at several exam centres across the city, Geo TV reported. "Despite...
May 10, 2017