Admitting that there were mistakes in the setting of Higher Secondary question papers, Minister of Education Abdu Rabb has said that from next year, question papers will be prepared by the Higher Secondary teachers themselves.
Right To Be Heard | A retired DGP of Uttar Pradesh MC Dwivedi and his wife Neerja Dwivedi are on a mission to educate underprivileged children in Lucknow. Neerja says that she was saddened to see children abusing and fighting with each other, and so she decide...
Not all students want to become engineers and doctors these days. They have specific ideas about what they want to do and go to any length to make their dreams come true. Also discussed, applying for the Ivy League and getting admitted.
Teacher's training course (TTC) in Kerala will now be called Diploma in Education (D Ed). This is one of the many guidelines changes brought about at the curriculum committee's meeting held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, under the chairmanship of state educat...
This segment of Enabling Global Education brings you inspiring stories of people who have dared to follow their heart and pursue their passion against all odds. These people have become successful in their respectful fields not because they did what everyone a...
For many, choosing a profession becomes immensely difficult as there is always a pull to follow the heart and pursue the passion even as there is pressure from various corners to choose a career that pays well. This segment of Enabling Global Education brings ...
Education today has become the battle of the strongest and survival of the fittest. With shooting cut off list and even 90% not guaranteed admission in an A-list college in India, students in India are looking for opportunities abroad. Studying abroad is an a...
Right To Be Heard | Sanjay Nahar is trying to build a proverbial road to bring youth from Kashmir closer to their nation, by educating them. In Kunnur, a band of residents come together to save the Nilgiris. Sameer Zaveri, a local train commuter from Mumbai wh...
Today is the second day of Chaitra Navratri. Today Mata's devotees pray to her avatar of Maa Brahmacharini. She blesses her devotees with courage, strength, dedication and concentration. It is believed that if students pray to her they would achieve success.
Student life is far from being easy as many defining decisions are taken during student days. Cut throat competition for collage seats makes the lives of the students a lot stressful. Although studying oversees is an attractive option, not many fully explore t...
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has inaugurated the students police summer camp which is a joint venture of Kerala police and state education department. Students from 100 schools from across the state take part in this summer camp.
Enabling Global Education | This pilot episode of a new series on Times Now is on education and the career. This episode focuses on the quality of education available in India, and how the standard of it compares with that available abroad. Here is a look at w...
A 16-year-old girl from Meghalaya, who was brutally gangraped by 17 men, and her family face harassment, apathy and alienation from the society. The child protection centre, that took in the victim after the schools denied her education, refuses to allow her f...
This is the second part of the Budget speech of Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayana Reddy. His statement on power situation was interrupted by the Opposition which said that the government had failed to resolve the shortage.
An unusually angry Kiran Kumar Reddy stopped short of thumping his thighs like actor Balaiah does in his movies. The CM got hot under the collar when he was accused by Etela Rajender of neglecting the Telangana region. He was answering to the diatribes made by...
Akhilesh Yadav's government has completed one year in power. On this occasion, he highlighted the development that his party worked for. He said that his party made sure that Uttar Pradesh developed in all the important sectors like education, health sector, i...
Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party has completed one year in power in Uttar pradesh. He said that his government made sure that the state develops in all sectors be it law, health, education and agriculture. He also spoke of the rise in the GDP of the state. He ...
Over four lakhs students attend the SSLC exams which begin today. The exams, which will take place in 2,800 centres, will end on March 23. Ministry of Education has informed that all the procedures to conduct the exams have been completed in time.
The state government has signed contracts with German company Bosch and BSNL as part of the Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP). The contract was signed in the presence of Minister for Industries and Information Technology PK Kunhalikutty and Ministe...
In this part of Finance Minister P Chidambaram's Budget 2013 speech, he speaks on new taxes proposed, both direct and indirect, income tax slabs, relief to income tax payers, and increase in exemption limit. He also said just 42,800 people in the country have ...
In this part of his speech in the Lok Sabha while announcing the Budget 2013, Finance Minister P Chidambaram speaks on allocations for education, scholarships to the weaker sections, mid-day meal schemes, ICDS and the welfare of children.
Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa drops three Ministers from her Cabinet and appoints new heads. Tourism Minister Gokula Indira, School Education Minister NR Sivapathy, and Health Minister VS Vijay will be replaced by TP Poonachi, Vaigaichelvan, and KC Veeramani. Som...
Minister for Education PK Abdu Rabb inaugurated the Keltron Knowledge Centre supported Classic IT Academy, a part of the Mahathma Education and Charitable Trust (MECT), at Malappuram. Minister for Industries and Information Technology PK Kunhalikutty also inau...
The US is investing in potential foreign leaders by educating them in America convinced that back in their home countries, when the time comes, they would side with America. US officials claim it is hard to overestimate the benefits of investing in public dipl...
With the Tunisian government grappling with economic and political issues, many are concerned that the mushrooming of private religious schools might be furthering future extremism.
Headlines Today brings you the inspiring story of professor Sandeep Desai, who has embarked on a mission to promote education in rural areas of Maharashtra. He collects donations from commuters in local trains as he needs money to support his attempt to educat...
The IAS association condemns KSU workers, who poured engine oil on higher secondary education director Keshvendra Kumar on Tuesday. They said that the incident is unfortunate and should not be repeated. The association demanded action against KSU workers. Chie...
Making A Difference (MAD) is an initiative by a group of inspired and enthusiastic youngsters who have come together to make a difference in the lives of differently abled kids. MAD members encourage education among these children, inculcate leadership and mak...
The cultural fest of students of backward communities in Wayanad has showcased unique art forms of Kerala. The fest was organised by education department to introduce the art forms, which are disappearing from popular stages, to the students. The dance perform...
Giving up their corporate careers, Sujata and Sandeep Sahu found their purpose in the scenic heights of Ladakh. Their 17000 Ft foundation helps in strengthening rural schools and communities. Working along with local volunteers and not-for-profit organisations...
According to Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh, sex education is the cause behind the rising number of crime against women. He says that all countries that have included sex education in their syllabus have faces high rate of crime against women. Congr...
Al Gurnov speaks to Nian Cai Lu from the Center for World-Class Universities about the Shanghai ranking system, its popularity, the purpose and its target audience who are the universities and governments.
Even as public anger against Delhi gangrape strengthens, the political class continues to show their outdated insensitive mindset. Puducherry education minister's illogical comments about redesigning uniforms for school girls has sparked another controversy. A...
Primary education in India, nowadays, is hit by regular news reports of corporal punishment and sub-standard teaching. But here's a man who is on a crusade to bring about the change that is required in teachers themselves. Meet Aditya Natraj of Kaiwalya Educat...
After the Delhi gangrape case, the politicians have been coming out and giving one insensitive statement after the other. Under the scanner for his statement this time around is none other than the Mumbai Police Commissioner, Satyapal Singh. The Commissioner w...
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court sent a notice to the School Education Secretary and the Fee Determination Committee and asked the Tamil Nadu government to reply to the petition filed to quash the fee orders in private schools. A plea was earlier file...
At a press conference in Gujarat during the last day of campaign before second phase of election, Congress leader Manish Tewari attacked Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's claims of development and progress. Tewari questions despite progress and making glo...
SR Jindal Prize for the ‘Exemplary Service to Mankind' has been awarded to Bharat Sevashram Sangha. The award carries a cash prize of 20 lakh rupees. The services offered by Sangha include disaster relief, spreading education, vocational training, healthcare...
Vasuben Trivedi, minister in the Narendra Modi government and MLA from Jamnagar constituency, votes at a polling booth. She says she is hoping for a voting percentage of 60-70%. But the question doing the rounds is, what would a higher polling percentage mean ...
The petition filed by the Andhra Pradesh state government against the holding of NEET exam for candidates from the state would be heard today. The Medical Council of India's national eligibility test for entrance for medical colleges has been opposed by the st...
Marijuana is legalised in Washington and Colorado where it will be sold, regulated and taxed like alcohol. Peter Lavelle throws open a debate on the war of drugs and if the US is practicing double standards by legalising drugs within the US while carrying out ...
Annamalai University, which was on shut down due to a strike last week, will reopen today, say sources. When the management planned to slash jobs and salaries, the teaching and non-teaching staff of Annamalai University, Chidambaram, went on an indefinite stri...
Union HRD Minister Pallam Raju announces that the UPA government is working very hard in implenting the Right to Compulsory Primary Education Act by the March of 2013. He said that more IITs would be set up in the country and vocational training would be impar...
MPs have decided to initiate legal action against Indian Oil Corporation Ltd which is trying to evade responsibility over the Chala tanker tragedy. Other decisions taken in the MPs meet include granting education loans to students who deserve them, issues to b...
Accused in a scam in the education department when she was state Education Minister, Meghalaya Urban Development Minister MA Lyngdoh has broken her silence on ths issue. Lyndoh said that there is a deep political conspiracy to malign her political image before...
The Centre has, after several cases of school children being given corporal punishment, in some cases of the most dastardly nature, decided to bring about a law that would punish such teachers with a jail sentence. There are other clauses in the bill regarding...
Nothing tells the sorry state of technical education in Andhra Pradesh, and India, than these statistics: This year 23 colleges had no admissions at all. And 25 colleges has just five students admitted, while a whopping 233 colleges had less than a 100 student...
Today is the International Girl Child Day. In this programme, the reasons for declining sex ratio and of the problems the girl child continues to face in this day and age are discussed. There are cultural, social and religious roots that makes families prefer ...
He is facing a FERA violation case. And now that same case has come to haunt him in a different way. A Vijayawada court has issued summons to School Education Minister K Parthasarathi for the offence of hiding the FERA case in his election affidavit.
In 30 days, there were 30 rapes in Haryana. Now former CM and chief of Indian National Lok Dal Om Prakash Chautala says marrying of girls are young age, as the Khaap panchayat's had suggested, to prevent rapes. His comment raised a huge storm. This raises the ...
Marry off girls at young age to prevent rapes and gang-rapes from happening, says former chief minister of Haryana and leader of Haryana's Indian National Lok Dal, Om Prakash Chautala. He even went to meet the Governor with a plea to allow child marriage to ha...
She was educated till 9th standard, entered film industry at the age of 12 as a child artiste in Telugu films, has been married thrice, has tried to commit suicide after a failed marriage, and who didn't like her father. So much so that she did not go to his f...
Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of Riverside School in Ahmedabad is working in India to help children say 'I can'. For Kiran Bir Sethi these two small words are some of the most important words children can ever hear. They are words she hopes to teach every child...
Greece forbids protests in Athens during German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit due to concerns that the rallies could escalate into violent riots. There is a lot of resentment as the government imposes more cuts in education, healthcare and pension. Unemploy...
Prosperous Punjab is going through one of its worst economic crises ever as people suffer trying to make ends meet. Even as the education system crumbles for a lack of resources, Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal is accused of gifting 1 crore ...
News Night | Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has gifted Rs 1 crore to his alma mater Lawrence Sanawar Public School, a school which does not need such a funding, even as the education system in Punjab is facing a serious financial crisis and l...
Can our private engineering colleges be above board? The work of task force constituted to inspect engineering colleges for checking on their facilities and faculties, was stymied on day one itself. The government first postponed, and then retracted its stand...
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is criticised for endlessly talking about himself instead of focussing on the country and its problems. Miliband addressed the Labour Party conference and spoke about his childhood and how his parents are Jewish refugees. This m...
Vasant Valley School, Delhi, was voted the best school in India in a joint survey conducted by a magazine EducationWorld and audience research agency C-fore. More than 3,000 parents and educationists took part in this survey and rated 443 schools spread across...
Former Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi and his son Gowthama Sigamani, who have been involved in the Rs 28.37 crore red sand quarry scam, are absconding. Ponmudi has been booked for committing grave violations of the Tamil Nadu Minor Mineral Concessions Act...
Thom Hartman asks the panel if there are any clear choices in this election. The panel includes Netrightdaily.com's Adam Bitely, Progressive writer and commentator Sam Sacks and The Heritage Foundation's Brian Darling. The panelists also analyse the promises l...
Kerala State Higher Education Council has recommended the government to restart BA (Honours) in colleges. This course, which is equal to MA, is for four years. Education Council has also suggested that the length of the course could be reduced to three years.
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has turned his sights on the backward district of Mahabubnagar. He is on a three-day tour as part of Indiramma Bata. The CM's chopper will land at Devaragattu thanda, from where he will also visit and launch a lift irrigation s...
The Vasant Valley School in Delhi is recognised as the Best Day School in India according to a survey conducted by C-fore and Education World magazine. The school boasts of an excellent teacher development programme and is managed by the India Today Group. The...
He has served at the Tirumala hills for over 45 years now. He has been a powerful presence in the sanctum sanctorum of the Lord Venkateswara. Now this man, at the centre of several allegations, who was once the most sought after man for VIPs arriving for darsh...
The CBSE is all set to conduct the NEET, National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, from next year i.e. 2013 onwards. The schedule has also been released by the Centre and the date for the exam has been fixed for May 12, 2013. The students may however be at a dis...
Bringing to light the great risk that children face while using toilets in private schools, TV9's Nigha exposes the unhygienic toilet facilities in some of the top schools in Hyderabad. Stinking, filthy and totally dilapidated toilets are caught on camera. The...
BAll teachers who pick up the stick to serve 'punishment' to their students, beware! A new rule is in the offing. The women and child welfare department has prepared a proposal to combat corporal punishment and this has been circulated as a Cabinet note for th...
Students attempt to gherao the house of social welfare minister Pitani Satyanarayana in Hyderabad. They demand a reduction in the mess charges at the Social Welfare Hostels. The PDSU activists are arrested by the police for their illegal agitation.
US President Barack Obama accepts the nomination for the President of the United States and kicks off the campaign with a rousing speech at the Democrat Convention in North Carolina. He says the election gives the Americans a choice between two different paths...
The Maharashtra Education Minister Rajendra Darda is likely to resign. The state Minister was named in one of the five FIRs filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the irregularities in the coal block allocation. Rajendra Darda and his high-profile b...
It is rare for Kiran Kumar Reddy to speak on Indian culture, on culture and on bringing up children with the right values. At his Indiramma bata in Kurnool, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy advises teachers and others present to treat education as the best inh...
The suspense over the admission to seats under the management quota is over. The state government will in all likelihood issue a GO confirming an earlier Cabinet decision to fill management seats by online. The decision was not confirmed earlier because the st...
In another case of the victim being victimised, a 12-year-old girl who was raped has been denied entry into her school. The girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by four upper caste boys and now a diktat from a local Panchayat has ensured that she is denied e...
MNS Chief Raj Thackeray's obnoxious brand of 'hate politics' has sparked a national outrage again. After his 'warning' to renowned singer Asha Bhonsle, the MNS Chief has now caused an uproar with an anti-Bihar rant. In his latest political polarising salvo, Ra...
The Immigration Dept has revoked the London Metropolitan University's licence to teach international students due to 'systematic failures'. International students now face deportation if they fail to secure a transfer to a new university within 60 days. It is ...
In another case of the victim being victimised, a 12-year-old girl who was raped has been denied entry into her school. The girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by four upper caste boys and now a diktat from a local Panchayat has ensured that she is denied e...
After much ado, Unmukt Chand is finally permitted to write his exams at the St. Stephen's College in Delhi. Sports Minister Ajay Maken had previously written a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the Delhi University in support of U-19 World Cup winning captain U...
Sports Minister Ajay Maken has written a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the Delhi University in support of U-19 World Cup winning captain Unmukt Chand's right to continue his education. Unmukt has moved court under the Right to Education. The St. Stephen's C...
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With the current volatile political atmosphere, protecting assets is important and Investor's Guide gives a few possible insurances like the shopkeeper's insurance to protect your property in case of any eventuality. In the product review segment, Dhirendra K...
India's best academicians attend the India Today Education Conclave 2012. The theme of the conclave was 'public private partnership' in education and how to make it work in India. Kapil Sibal, the HRD Minister, also attended the conclave.
Making a strong pitch for public-private partnership in education, Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal expounded the necessity of the 'infrastracture' status for education. Calling for increased opportunities in college education, Kapil Sibal also explained the dif...
Hyderabad is a den for gangs that have long sought to 'help' out students who 'need' certificates of all kinds- school, high marks, engineering, degree, PG and so on. And just like this gang arrested by Hyderabad police, there still are cheats who use ordinary...
In a shocking case of corporal punishment from Rajouri, a 13-year-old has been hospitalised with a damaged kidney after being brutally beaten by his teacher. The Jammu and Kashmir Education Department has ordered a probe, but the police is yet to trace the tee...
School Education minister K Parthasarathi has filed a petition in the High Court seeking quashing of the judgment of the economic offences court that had awarded him two years imprisonment for violating FERA laws while importing machinery from abroad. The mini...
Acharya Balakrishna, an associate of Baba Ramdev, has got bail. He was arrested by the CBI in case of fraudulent documents attached to his application for securing a passport.
Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal has said that the government is not shielding former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda who was named in the suicide note of former MDLR air hostess Geetika Sharma and who has been booked for abetment to suicide. Haryana gove...
The preliminary inquiry report sent by the Krishna district collector to the state election commissioner mentions that school education minister K Parthasarathi failed to mentioned the FERA case against him in the mandatory affidavit that is filed by candidate...
Andhra Pradesh has a new ordinance to govern admissions, teaching, and fees in engineering colleges in the state. The ordinance also calls for a task force to monitor colleges, and admission to management seats through online counseling. This discussion is joi...
In Ranchi, Jharkhand, posters have come up warning girls not to wear jeans from August 20 after which they are being threatened with acid being throw at them. This sort of activity makes you think if Taliban are gaining strength in some pockets in India. At ot...
A group called Jharkhand Mukti Sangh has threatened the girls in Jharkhand, who wear jeans, with acid attacks. The group has also warned the family members of the girls. Although the postures issuing threats have appeared a day ago, police was unsuccessful in ...
The state government has issued new guidelines in fee reimbursements. It has capped the amount to be reimbursed for BCs and EBCs at Rs 31,000 per annum. But this would not apply to SCs and STs.
Anuradha Bali alias Fiza Mohammed. A well-educated, university topper, worked as a former Assistant Advocate General of Haryana. She falls in love with then deputy CM Chander Mohan, convert to Islam to marry, but within 15 days he returns to his first wife. Fi...
A teacher attempted to discipline a student, but left the student blind in one eye after she hit his eye. The teacher had said it was an accident but Instead of making amends she did not do anything to help treat the boy or inform his parents. The student belo...
Minister for secondary education K Parthasarathi who was charged in connection with the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act or FERA violation, now faces fresh trouble in form of an allegedly wrong affidavit filed before election commission. The state election comm...