With the deadline approaching, the much-hyped Rs 142-crore educational scheme of the Punjab government for upgrade and modernising rural schools is nowhere near completion.
A 25-year-old girl was arrested by the police in Ghaziabad on Tuesday for allegedly pretending to be an IAS officer.
Interesting times are round the corner for undergraduate students of Delhi University. The varsity plans to introduce a "credit transfer" system at undergraduate level when the semester system is introduced in the university from 2010-11 academic session, Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental said on Tuesday.
Honestly speaking, the Puris could have spared us the details Thanks to the high-pitched drama over Om Puri's biography played out repeatedly on television screens, a great deal of the actor's liaisons—with women at various stages of his life—have become public much before the release of Unlikely Hero.
The Lucknow police found bodies of two children in Mohanlalganj area on Tuesday evening. They were identified as Preeti (12) and Rahul (6), children of Raju Kumar, a farmer of Gora village. Preeti was the student of Class VI. "Both children have injury marks of an axe on their heads," said Circle Officer, Mohanlalganj, S K Tiwari.
Dr D V Jindal, a city-based retired English lecturer, has finally got the three increments he was supposed to get for doing a PhD during service.
Pickpockets at the New Delhi railway station seem to have found a soft target — Chandigarh-bound passengers of the Shatabdi Express.
The Municipal Corporation has decided to bring more parking lots under the ambit of paid parking system.
Two more students of the Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Sector 12, have tested positive for swine flu.
The Income Tax Department had seized assets worth Rs 45.45 crore and executed 422 warrants in Gujarat in the financial year 2008-09, a release from the office of Rajya Sabha member Parimal Nathwani said.
In a new twist, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), Manipur's oldest insurgent group, has found a "common interest" in the Maoist movement in "mainland India".
At the sight of two men, dressed in black and with AK-47s slung around their necks, Dinaz Sharma's first instinct was to shut the glass door of Kandahar Restaurant at Oberoi Hotel.
After his first interaction with the members of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee on Tuesday, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal was unanimously given the authority to name the new SGPC chief and other office bearers to be elected in the general house of the body on Wednesday.
Only 25 per cent of the total truck drivers in the state are aware of the AIDS, says a study conducted by an NGO Rising Youth Association.
The crisis at Haldia Petrochemicals, which was paralysed by a strike called by the CITU for the last four days, ended today with an agreement being signed between the workers and the management, which provided for a wage revision to the tune of a 104 per cent hike in the first year, a 21 per cent hike in the second and a 20 per cent hike in the third year for the 1,500 contractual workers of the c
In possibly the first of its kind exercise initiated for the overall uplift of the quality of education in the state, besides the 'Gunotsav' drive, all government officers above Class I rank are being roped in to revisit the schools where they have studied, to do an impromptu check and motivate the students.
A month after a Class III worker in the Vadodara Division of Western Railway committed suicide by setting himself on fire following alleged harassment by his co-workers and seniors, Railway authorities have initiated a one-to-one interaction with the workers in a bid to understand their grievances and problems.
A city court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of the four youths arrested for allegedly molesting a girl student and creating a ruckus on the JNU campus on Sunday evening.
The decision to audit the accounts of unaided, recognised schools in the Capital went under process on June 30, when the Accountant General (Audit), Delhi, informed Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta that Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had been authorised to do it.
A woman convict's wish to meet two male undertrials prompted her to weave a web of lies that kept a city court ensnared for around two months before her bluff was called.
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