New Delhi, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Nearly 450,000 students studying in classes 10 and 12 here will appear for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board exams beginning next week.
According to the CBSE, 247,291 students will appear for the Class 10 board exams, an increase of 6.32 percent over 2009.
Similarly, 199,951 students will give their [...]
Lucknow, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) A Class 11 girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by three of her classmates in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, police said Saturday, adding that the suspects were absconding.
Residents of Hilwari village in Baghpat, some 400 km from here, held a series of protests, demanding the arrest of the boys.
The 16-year-old victim [...]
Lucknow, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) A Class 11 girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by three of her classmates in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, police said Saturday. The suspects are absconding.
Residents of Hilwari village in Baghpat, some 400 km from here, held a series of protests, demanding the arrest of the boys.
The 16-year-old victim, who is [...]
Washington, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Since at least the days of Socrates, humans have been advised to “know thyself”. And through the years, many social psychologists have believed the individual is the best judge of his or her own personality. But that may not really be the case.
Now a psychologist in Washington University School of Medicine [...]
Washington, Feb 27 (DPA) Jilted love may have prompted a man to kill a female teacher Friday outside an elementary school in Tacoma, Washington, a newspaper reported.
There were no children in the school at the time of the shooting, the News Tribune reported online.
The suspected killer died in a hail of police bullets just a [...]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Inditop.com) India Friday allocated Rs.42,036 crore (Rs.420 billion/$ 9.1 billion) for both the school and higher education sectors in 2010-11, an increase of over Rs.5,600 crore from the previous fiscal – a move that aims to reform education by bringing equality in the sector.
“I propose to increase the plan allocation for [...]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Inditop.com) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), one of the world’s largest open universities, will get Rs.91 crore from the union budget for the next fiscal.
IGNOU will get Rs.91 crore innthe 2010-11 fiscal, Rs.9 crore more as compared to the last year.
IGNOU provides education to over 2.5 million students in [...]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Inditop.com) Nearly 20,000 students from the Gulf countries will take the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations starting March 3 at 70 centres, an official release said here Friday.
This year, 11,144 students of Class 10 and 7,064 of Class 12, will take the board exams, a CBSE release said.
Last year, [...]