Delhi government advertisements in several newspapers on Friday declared that Punjabi language would be compulsory in Delhi government-run schools, adding each school would have at least one Punjabi teacher. The Delhi government’s decision to make Punjabi compulsory in government schools in Delhi had nothing to do with the coming assembly polls in Punjab, the AamAadmi […]
Read more >There are total 4,500 seats 500 each in nine schools but only 4,082 students could clear the CET, including 3,028 in the first CET and around 1,054 in the second chance. MORE THAN 400 seats of meritorious schools will remain vacant despite providing two chances to the students to clear the entrance for admission in […]
Read more >New Delhi: Seventeen-year-old Malvika Raj Joshi doesn’t have a class 10 or 12 certificate but has made it to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), thanks to her computer programming talent. Here is a story about a mother’s conviction to break stereotypes and the self belief of her teenage daughter, who showed why “merit” […]
Read more >NEW DELHI: India will be half a century late in achieving its universal education goals, according to a Unesco report released on Monday. This means the country will achieve universal primary education by 2050, universal lower secondary education in 2060 and universal upper secondary education in 2085. The 2030 deadline for achieving sustainable development goals […]
Read more >According to the data, the percentage of illiterates is 36.4 for Hindus, 32.5 for Sikhs, 28.2 for Buddhists and 25.6 for Christians. At 42.7 per cent, Muslims have the highest percentage of illiterates, while Jains, at 86.4 per cent, have the highest percentage of literates, according to Census 2011 data on education level by religious […]
Read more >Mumbai: The irony is hard to miss. New Life is located above a slaughterhouse. English Dreams is wrongly spelt as InglishDreemz. But these slumtorials, today the mainstay in Mumbai’s bustees, are catering to thousands chasing a transformation that will pull them out of their jhopris. Largely located above a tailor shop or a butchery, a […]
Read more >IIMs received 208,000 applications at the end of the one-and-a-half month window for registering for CAT 2016, way below the 218,664 they received for CAT 2015 New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) on Thursday extended the registration window for the Common Admission Test (CAT) by five more days, after seeing a subdued response […]
Read more >HYDERABAD: After wading through waist-deep water, AjitYadav returned to his workplace, a food processing unit at Cherlapally, after three days on Sunday. But upon unlocking the door, he found his workplace in ruins. Worse, he was out of job because his employer said it would take months to set things in order. “I have several […]
Read more >NEW DELHI: Ashoka University, a private liberal arts institution in Haryana, will introduce a science programme for undergraduates in the academic year 2017-18. The university will have new departments dedicated to physics, biology and environmental sciences, in addition to existing departments of humanities and social sciences, mathematics, computer science and psychology, said Malabika Sarkar, principal […]
Read more >English language proficiency among the Chinese improved significantly in the past one year while India’s ranking among non-English speaking countries which use the language dropped a couple of notches, according to a new report. China improved its ranking by eight levels to be placed 39th among 72 countries, while India went down by two ranks […]
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