Ghaziabad, Nov 5 (IANS) The junior section of Delhi Public School Ghaziabad has been closed till Nov 13 after a case of swine flu was detected in the school, the principal said ...

Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): For overweight women looking forward to becoming a mum, here's some bad news: a new study has shown that obese women are as much as 28 percent less ...

Nettuno (Italy), Sep 21 (IANS) The Fazza powerboat crew of Arif Al Zafeen and Nader Bin Hindi had their third straight win here at the UIM Class 3 World Championship, WAM news ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) A 10-year-old girl was found dead under suspicion raising circumstances in the national capital Monday, police said. The body of Rinku Mandal, a Class 3 student of ...

New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) A city court Wednesday sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl. Additional Sessions Judge Shailender Kaur held Kartar Singh guilty of ...

Ghaziabad, Sep 1 (IANS) The body of an eight-year-old boy was found here Tuesday with injuries and vermilion marks. The police suspect it to be a case of human sacrifice. The body was ...

Jammu, Aug 23 (IANS) Board examinations for Class 3 and 5 students? That's what the Jammu and Kashmir government is thinking of introducing in order to improve education standards even as the ...

Chandigarh, July 31 (IANS) The authorities of a private school in Chandigarh Friday sacked a teacher who was found guilty of slapping a Class 3 boy. Kavita Das, principal of St John's ...

Bhopal, July 29 (IANS) A teacher accused of molesting tribal girl students of Class 3 and 5 was arrested Wednesday in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh, police said. Sanjeev Sharma, posted ...

Chandigarh, July 28 (IANS) A teacher who was accused of slapping a Class 3 boy several times at the prestigious St. John's High School here has been held guilty by a magistrate, ...

Chandigarh, July 24 (IANS) A teacher in a government-run school here has been dismissed on the charge of putting garlands of shoes around the necks of students, an official said Friday. "Teachers should ...

New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) The fascinating stories of the Indian epic Mahabharata -- including the rivalry between cousins Pandavas and Kauravas, Lord Krishna and his mischievous exploits as a lad, and ...

New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) As many as 37 bonded child labourers were rescued from a zari (embroidery) factory in north-east Delhi Thursday, an NGO said. Mostly hailing from Bihar or across the ...

Lucknow, April 19 (IANS) Nine-year-old Chandan Singh was an avid watcher of MTV's reality show "Roadies" and never missed an episode. But Saturday night's episode was to be his last. The boy ...

New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) A 10-year-old boy Tuesday died after falling into a 35-feet deep manhole in a southwest Delhi as the rescuers could not extricate him in time due to ...

New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by her former teacher in the national capital, the police said Tuesday. The teacher has been arrested. The victim, a ...

New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Ten students of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school here suffered injuries after being beaten by their teacher for making noise in the classroom. The students of ...

Ghaziabad, Jan 21 (IANS) The bruised body of a 10-year-old boy, who was allegedly kidnapped near his house last week, was found near Hindon river in Ghaziabad Wednesday, the police said. Vikas ...

Raipur, Jan 10 (IANS) A nine-year-old boy's beheaded body was found near the Mahanadi river in Chhattisgarh with the father alleging "someone has sacrificed my son" to appease a god, the police ...

Lucknow, July 1 (IANS) Armed with specially designed interactive books, the Uttar Pradesh government is all set to introduce English as a subject from Class 1. "Come July 7 and over 40 ...

By V.N. Balakrishna Ahmedabad, June 21 (IANS) The name Manjari Patil might not immediately ring a bell, but this maths teacher has been quietly working towards ensuring that when children learn their numbers, ...

By Asit Srivastava Lucknow, May 13 (IANS) An acute shortage of teachers in government-run schools across Uttar Pradesh may stymie the state government's plan to introduce English as a subject from Class 1. ...

Patna, May 10 (IANS) An eight-year-old school student broke his elbow after teachers allegedly thrashed him for refusing to eat worm-infested mid-day meal in a village in Bihar. Hashmullah Ansari, a Class ...

By V. Vijayalakshmi Pune, April 23 (IANS) Emotions are bound to run high when the fortunate few meet the most unfortunate. One such occasion was an eye opener for kids from some of ...

New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) In an embarrassment to Delhi Police, a 15-year-old boy accused of rape Tuesday managed to give officials a slip and fled from the Alipur Police station. The ...

Jammu, April 4 (IANS) The centre has decided to hike the rentals for land hired or requisitioned by the army in Jammu and Kashmir, as per the recommendations of the defence ministry. ...

Bhubaneswar, Feb 24 (IANS) A nine-year-old boy was accidentally locked up in his classroom in Orissa's Kendrapada district for about six hours after the school closed, his parents said Sunday. He was ...

Ghaziabad, Feb 16 (IANS) Police Saturday arrested 26 court employees here on the charge of swindling over Rs.70 million from the provident fund account of the court staff. Those arrested included 22 ...

Ghaziabad, Feb 16 (IANS) Over Rs.70 million have been swindled from the provident fund account of the court staff here with a judge filing a police complaint naming some employees. Special Central ...