Nearly 100 city corporation schools will soon be equipped with gardens that grow vegetables for their mid-day meal scheme. A self-help group which acquired expertise in terrace gardening under the National Urban Livelihood Mission will train the corporation teachers and students. "Members of the SHG
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Teachers of Government schools can now send their entries directly for National Award for Teachers. Announcing this, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar said that this is a new initiative, as earlier entries were selected by the State Government. In the new system
Dreams start small. Ask Sudiksha Bhati, student and winner of a Rs 1.92 crore scholarship in a college in the US. Sudiksha, whose father runs a small dhaba and mother is a homemaker, used to dream about studying in a school when financial constraints forced her to drop out in 2009. Today, the 17
Mangnaram Bishnoi, a long-haul truck driver, is rushing to Kota to see his sons — Mahendra Kumar Bishnoi and Shyam Sunder Bishnoi — who have cleared NEET and JEE-Advanced, respectively, this year. Bishnoi, 45, has not seen his sons since June 1last year. A resident of Kanasar village in Phalodi
The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar launched the new digital initiative of HRD Ministry ‘National Digital Library of India’ on the occasion of National Reading Day in New Delhi on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion Minister said that a new era of Digital India has begun
Anu Kumari became the first person in Uchwawal village in Jharkhand’s Latehar district to clear the matriculation examination conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council. Uchwawal village, mostly inhabited by the Parahiya tribes — one of the 12 primitive tribes groups (PTGs) in Jharkhand — is 130km
A bunch of leading companies, led by those in the IT space, is engaging proactively with students at both school and college levels. Philips, IBM, WiproNSE 0.15 %, EXL Service, SAP Labs and Infosys are among those driving such initiatives, for reasons as wide-ranging as promoting interest in STEM
Many must have heard of the "Super 30" started by Anand Kumar in 2002 for coaching underprivileged children to get into the prestigious IIT. A total of 422 students out of 480 from Super-30 coaching institute have qualified in IIT-JEE since it was started. This year 26 of their 30 students got
As many as 26 of the 30 students trained by famed coaching institute Super 30 have cleared the JEE-Advanced 2018 for admission to India’s premiere IITs, its founder Anand Kumar said on Sunday. Onirjit Goswami, Suraj Kumar, Yash Kumar and Prashant Das — all from extremely modest backgrounds — are
When Shankuntala Kale, chairperson of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, was announcing SSC results for the first time in her career, she was aware that a village in Ambegaontaluka was proud of its daughter who had made it to the topmost position in the board. Kale
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books that are available online may now include video content along with text. The academic body is considering a proposal named Energised Textbooks under which books for higher classes may have digital links to multimedia material where
Adarsh Vidyalayas, or model schools, will be set up in the state's 68 assembly constituencies, Himachal Pradesh's Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj said here on Monday. Ten of these model schools will be opened this year and a provision of Rs 25 crore has been made, he said. The minister said that