Tag: Teacher

Tamil Nadu: Students protest transfer of their teacher

As per media reports, the 28-year-old teacher, who taught English subject from 6th to 10th class, was surrounded and held by teary-eyed students, who did not allow him to leave the school.

June 22, 2018

When Donald Trump got English grammar lessons from retired teacher

The letter, dated May 3 and printed on White House stationery, bearing President Donald Trump's seal and signature, was addressed to the 61-year-old Yvonne Mason, as a response to her letter to Donald Trump concerning gun policy.

June 3, 2018

The teacher’s new role

In ancient times, an educational institution was meant to be a place of leisure where the inherent divinity and talent of the child was nurtured, leading to the emergence of a fully integrated individual. This was done not only by imparting secular knowledge but also by fostering a spirit of self-enquiry. This meant that a...

May 28, 2018

Shimla teacher suspended for molesting 14-year-old

Taking a strong action against an accused on charges of molestation of a 14-year-old girl student of a government school in Shimla, the education department has suspended the teacher. According to Elementary Education Director Manmohan Sharma, the department had ordered an inquiry on Thursday for which a two-member committee was constituted ascertain the incident of...

April 27, 2018

Teacher suspended after misconduct complaints

Guardians of East Barisa Primary School on Monday locked a teacher inside a classroom on charges of ill-treating them and several students of the school. The teacher, Putul Banerjee, allegedly never came to school on time and misbehaved with many students on several occasions. The principal and the managing committee of the school too have...

April 4, 2018

Teacher suspended after complaints of misconduct

Guardians of East Barisa Primary School on Sunday locked a teacher inside a classroom on charges of ill-treating them and several students of the school. The teacher, Putul Banerjee, allegedly never came to school on time and misbehaved with many students on several occasions. The principal and the managing committee of the school too have...

April 3, 2018

Over 68 pc teacher posts vacant in Punjab colleges

With no recruitment of regular teachers in Punjab government colleges since 2003 due to a ban by Punjab and Haryana High Court (HC), over 68 per cent of sanctioned posts in all 48 colleges are lying vacant. As per the information given by the higher education and languages minister Aruna Chaudhary in reply to a...

March 29, 2018

Minor girl molested by teacher at religious school in Jammu

A seven-and-half year old girl was allegedly molested by her teacher at a religious school at Nagrota in the outskirts of the city, a police official said on Thursday. The girl’s mother lodged a complaint on Monday alleging that her daughter was raped by her teacher at the ‘darsgah’. She alleged that the girl, after...

March 15, 2018

Minor shoots cousin while taking a selfie

In a freak accident, a 17-year-old boy accidentally pulled the trigger of a loaded pistol while taking a selfie and fired at his cousin in southeast Delhi’s Sarita Vihar area on Thursday evening. According to police, the deceased was identified as Prashant Chauhan (23). He was working as a teacher on a contractual basis. Police...

March 10, 2018

Police register case against woman beating up in-laws

We have heard of in-laws torturing the daughter-in-law, but here is a case in the reverse.The Binjharpur police on Monday booked a woman teacher of a government primary school for beating her octogenarian in-laws. The victims, Giridhari Behera (89) and his wife Sundari Behera (85), residents of Dihakula under Aaunri panchayat lodged a complaint with...

February 27, 2018

Indian-American teacher hailed for saving students during Florida shooting

A quick-acting Indian-American maths teacher is being hailed for saving the lives of her students during the shooting rampage at a Florida high school that left 17 dead. When an alarm sounded for the second time on Wednesday afternoon, Shanthi Viswanathan shut the doors to her algebra classroom, made the students crouch on the floor...

February 17, 2018

‘Blind’ teacher in custody for molesting minor girls

A 40-year-old teacher of a government school, who claimed blindness, was arrested for sexually exploiting two minor girls, both students of class eight. The accused was identified as Avdhesh Prajapati. DCP Aslam Khan (North West) stated: “Two cases have been registered against the teacher and he has been arrested and sent to judicial custody. Some...

February 16, 2018

Punjab to create separate teacher cadre for border areas

The Punjab cabinet on Thursday decided to create a separate cadre of teachers for the six border districts of Pathankot, Amritsar, Fazilka, Tarn Taran, Ferozepur and Gurdaspur. The cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister (CM) Amarinder Singh has decided to seek the opinion of the state advocate-general on recruitment of teachers from their respective districts in...

February 15, 2018

Hill teachers-in-charge seek head-teacher post

Representatives of the Teacher-in-Charge Cell in the Hills on Monday submitted a memorandum to the chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), Binoy Tamang, demanding that they be made fullfledged head teachers of the different schools they are presently working in. “There are 129 government- aided High and Higher Secondary...

February 14, 2018

School teacher arrested for ‘sexually abusing’ student

A teacher of the primary section of Carmel High School in south Kolkata was arrested on Thursday for allegedly sexually abusing a Class II student, and was arrested on Thursday, police said. The development triggered angry protests by the girl’s parents and other guardians, who gathered outside the primary section of the school this morning,...

February 10, 2018

Physics Revisited

As a student and later as a teacher of both physics and mathematics, I have always been intrigued by the fact that some of the most important laws of physics are formulated by second order linear differential (SOLD) equations. For readers not familiar with calculus or differential equations it suffices to know that SOLD equations...

February 4, 2018

KV teacher defends her ‘revealing clothes invite Nirbhaya-like rapes’ remark

Raipur Kendriya Vidyalaya’s Biology teacher, who told students that girls wearing short clothes invite Nirbhaya like rapes, defended her statement saying that she was only instructing the girls to abide with the school’s ‘code of conduct.’ She stood firm with her belief that the girls should not leave homes at night to avoid rapes. The...

January 30, 2018