TN school board exams: Minister to meet chief education officers for final preparations

TN school board exams: Minister to meet chief education officers for final preparations

Chennai, Feb 6 (IANS) With just a month left for the Tamil Nadu school board examinations, State School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi is set to meet the Chief Education Officers (CEOs) from all districts on February 13 to finalise preparations. The Tamil Nadu state board exams for Class 12 will be held from March … Read more

Rajasthan: 1 killed, 9 injured as school bus carrying 30 children crashes

Rajasthan: 1 killed, 9 injured as school bus carrying 30 children crashes

Jaipur, Feb 5 (IANS) A Class 12 student lost her life while nine other children sustained serious injuries as the driver of the school bus in which they were travelling lost the control of the vehicle following which it fell off a culvert. The accident reportedly happened due to a brake failure. The bus was … Read more

Bengal: CBI again fails to collect voice samples of prime accuse in school job case

Bengal: CBI again fails to collect voice samples of prime accuse in school job case

Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday, once again failed for the third time to collect the voice samples of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, a prime accused in the multi-crore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal as he (Bhadra) failed to turn up at a special court in Kolkata on medical grounds. … Read more

Bengaluru: Man stabs wife to death near son’s school, suspecting affair

Bengaluru: Man stabs wife to death near son's school, suspecting affair

Bengaluru, Feb 5 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a man stabbed his wife to death in broad daylight near his son’s school, in full public view, in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The incident took place in Vinayakanagar, Hebbagodi, near Anekal town. The deceased has been identified as 29-year-old Sriganga, and the accused husband as Mohanraj. The … Read more

Bengal school job case: ED gets fresh evidence against 4 SSC officials

Bengal school job case: ED gets fresh evidence against 4 SSC officials

Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) Additional trouble seems to be brewing for four former top officials of different wings attached to the West Bengal education department. These four former officials have been named as accused in the cash-for-school job case, and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has got additional proof of their direct involvement in the irregularities … Read more

School admissions dipped, pollution spiked under AAP govt: Ajay Maken

School admissions dipped, pollution spiked under AAP govt: Ajay Maken

New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) A drop in admissions in government schools and shortage of public transport buses are the dark facts about the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s failed education and transport models in Delhi, former Union Minister and AICC Treasurer Ajay Maken said on Sunday. Addressing media persons, Maken said the Arvind Kejriwal … Read more

Bengal school job case: CBI fails to get Sujay Krishna Bhadra’s voice samples again

Bengal school job case: CBI fails to get Sujay Krishna Bhadra's voice samples again

Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday, could not collect the voice samples of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, a prime accused in the multi-crore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal, as the latter failed to turn up at a special court in Kolkata on medical grounds. Earlier, on January 21, the … Read more

Every Saturday to be ‘no bag day’ for Andhra school students

Every Saturday to be 'no bag day' for Andhra school students

Amaravati, Jan 28 (IANS) School students in Andhra Pradesh need not carry bags every Saturday as the government has declared every Saturday a ‘no bag day’. The decision was taken at a review meeting presided over by Minister for Education, Information Technology (IT) and Electronics Nara Lokesh on Tuesday. The Minister also asked authorities to … Read more

SC to hear on Monday plea against Calcutta HC order axing 25,753 school jobs

SC to hear on Monday plea against Calcutta HC order axing 25,753 school jobs

New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a batch of petitions, including the West Bengal government’s appeal, filed against the Calcutta High Court’s order cancelling 25,753 appointments in teaching and non-teaching posts made by the WBSSC in 2016. As per the details published on the website of the … Read more