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Dropout rate falls in Jammu and Kashmir schools 20 March 2010, 20-1 HrsJammu, March 20 Jammu and Kashmir has seen a steady decline in the dropout rate in schools and the government is making the maximum efforts to expand quality education in the state, a minister has said. |
Guided by 'zakat', a village funds its road and bridge 20 March 2010, 20-0 HrsLucknow, March 20 Guided by 'zakat' - charity as envisaged by the Quran - villagers of Muslim-dominated Shirajpur in Uttar Pradesh have repaired roads, dug wells, established schools and are now building a bridge. |
India gets $1 bn World Bank loan to improve education 19 March 2010, 19-1 HrsWashington, March 19 The World Bank has approved two education projects worth $1.05 billion for India, designed to boost the number of children enrolling in and completing elementary school, and to improve the quality of engineering education across the country. |
Jolie opens girls' school in Afghanistan 17 March 2010, 17-1 HrsNew York, March 17 Actress Angelina Jolie has set up a school for girls in Afghanistan, and it opens Monday. |
Free cycles for Jharkhand schoolgirls 17 March 2010, 17-1 HrsRanchi, March 17 Free cycles will be distributed to Class 8 girl students in Jharkhand to check dropout rates in government schools, a minister said. |
Largesse a' la Arjun Singh - giving away 4,710 central school seats 16 March 2010, 16-1 HrsNew Delhi, March 16 In a move that could see discretionary quotas being scrapped, former human resource development (HRD) minister Arjun Singh used his clout to give away 4,710 central school seats during 2006-09, much above the limit of 3,600 for three years. |
Where a 200-member family is one village 16 March 2010, 16-1 HrsNepalipam (Assam), March 16 It's all in the family. Three generations of one family, numbering now around 200, live in a village in Assam - populating its two schools and even buying provisions from the cooperative store run also by a relative. |
Bail plea of publisher in Jesus blasphemy case rejected 15 March 2010, 15-2 HrsShillong, March 15 The Shillong bench of the Gauhati High Court Monday rejected the bail plea of Indra Mohan Jha, whose publishing house had printed a blasphemous image of Jesus -- holding a beer can and a cigarette -- in a school textbook. |
School teacher gets 18 months' jail for dowry demands 15 March 2010, 15-2 HrsChandigarh, March 15 A local court here Monday sentenced a Sanskrit teacher in a Chandigarh government school and his parents to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment for harassing his wife for dowry. |
Financial sector key recruiter at IIM-Kozhikode 15 March 2010, 15-2 HrsNew Delhi, March 15 Strengthening the economic revival story, financial sectors made a beeline to hire students from Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIM-K). The elite B-school Monday said that a whopping 39 percent of their students got placed in this vertical. |
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