Tag: Student

6-year-old girl ‘raped’ inside toilet of Delhi school, sweeper arrested

A six-year-old student was allegedly raped by a housekeeping staff in a toilet of a private school in Delhi, reports said on Thursday. According to media reports, the student was assaulted by the housekeeping staff after she had gone to the girl’s bathroom. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Chinmoy Biswal said the Class 1 student was...

October 5, 2017

Pradyuman murder: Suspended Ryan school principal joins another branch

Former acting-principal of Ryan International school Neerja Batra, who was suspended after a seven-year-old student was found dead with his throat-slit in the school premises, has been appointed as a teacher in another school in Gurugram. Batra has been reappointed as a teacher in another branch of the Ryan International School in Gurugram, Sector 40....

October 2, 2017

BHU violence: V-C says ‘anti-social elements’ at fault

Benaras Hindu University (BHU) Vice Chancellor Girish Chandra Tripathi said that violence on the intervening night of 23 and 24 September was a ‘conspiracy’ hatched by ‘anti-social elements’. According to media reports, Tripathi said, the ‘eve-teasing’ incident was ‘staged’ a day before the planned visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said, since he has taken charge...

September 26, 2017

Pradyuman murder: Ryan school reopens, victim’s father fears evidence tampering

New Delhi: Ryan International School in Gurgaon re-opened on Monday, 10 days after a seven-year-old student, Pradyuman, was found murdered in the washroom of the school. Parents of the deceased boy have questioned the decision of reopening the school, raising concern over the possibility of ‘tampering of evidence’. Victim’s father told the media that re-opening...

September 18, 2017

Knife-wielding US student shot dead by police

A knife-wielding student was shot dead by the police at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US, authorities said. The Georgia Tech Police Department responded to a call about a person reportedly carrying a knife and a gun near a school dormitory early Sunday morning, reports Xinhua news agency. Officers arrived at the scene...

September 18, 2017

Gurugram student murder case: Ryan school gardener detained

The Gurugram Police has detained the Ryan International School gardener and key witness in the school boy murder case, Harpal Singh, and is likely to arrests some more persons in connection with the case, a senior SIT officer said. The Gurugram Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) detained the gardener on Wednesday. “The SIT does not...

September 14, 2017

Ryan International School principal suspended over student’s death

Ryan International School’s management has suspended the acting-principal, Neerja Batra, of its Gurugram branch after a seven-year-old student was found dead  with his throat slit inside Ryan International School here, as per media reports on Saturday. About 200 angry parents entered the school to take their children back home on Friday. The parents also vandalised...

September 9, 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 3 student fails to respond to roll call; slapped 40 times

A private school teacher here allegedly slapped a class three student mercilessly and dragged him for not responding to roll call, following which she was booked by the police. The video clip of the teacher slapping and dragging the child has gone viral on the social media. The child said as he was engrossed in...

August 31, 2017

Playing video games makes you a better university student

Starting your university life? Playing video games may help you develop 'graduate attributes' – skills required for higher education, a new study suggests. Researchers found that gaming improved student communication skills, resourcefulness and adaptability and may have a role to play in higher education. Over an eight-week period, undergraduate students were assigned to either an...

June 6, 2017

Hundreds of Bihar Class 12 students protest against being failed

Hundreds of Class 12 students in Bihar who have failed in their exams continued their protest for the fourth consecutive day in Patna on Saturday demanding re-checking of their answer sheets and action against top officials, police said. More than eight lakh of the over 12 lakh students who appeared for the Class 12 exams conducted by...

June 3, 2017

Missing Indian-origin student found dead in US

An Indian-origin student was found dead here after he went missing earlier this week, police said. Aalaap Narasipura, 20, was an electrical engineering student at Cornell University and was missing from Wednesday, ABC News reported. Cornell University Police said Narasipura's body was recovered on Friday from Fall Creek, a gorge located near Ithaca Falls. The...

May 20, 2017

Kylie Jenner attends high school prom as student’s date

Reality TV personality Kylie Jenner surprised students at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento when she unexpectedly arrived at their prom. The 19-year-old reality star accompanied junior Albert Ochoa to the school prom, bringing along her longtime pal Jordyn Woods for the festivities, reported People magazine. Kylie took to Snapchat to post a photo of...

April 10, 2017

An Inspector came calling

I heard the big news that an inspector of schools would pay us a visit the following week. A student in a missionary school and only eight, I knew what made the news big: the inspector was an Englishman and a royal emissary in effect. It shook everybody in the school, from our plump easy-going...

January 1, 2017