Debt-ridden Bengal announces increment for government college teachers
August 21st, 2012 - 7:34 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 21 (IANS) The West Bengal government Tuesday announced that it would provide increment to those professors of government colleges who have undergone higher studies such as M.Phil and ... Read more...
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IIT Bombay starts training 10,000 teachers
June 25th, 2012 - 9:30 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 25 (IANS) The training programme for 10,000 teachers was inaugurated Monday by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay.Under the 'Talk to a ... Read more...
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Two Bengal professors asked to explain ‘anti-government comments’
June 8th, 2012 - 8:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) Two professors in two government colleges of West Bengal have been issued show cause notices by the higher education department and asked to explain ... Read more...
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‘Punjab colleges staff go without salaries for months’
May 15th, 2012 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, May 15 (IANS) Teaching and non-teaching staff in colleges across Punjab have gone without salaries for the past few months, a senior teachers' leader said Tuesday."A total of 1,036 ... Read more...
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Ex-Trinamool legislator surrenders over assault, gets bail
April 30th, 2012 - 5:58 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress legislator Arabul Islam, booked for several offences following complaints of physical assault by some college teachers, Monday surrendered before a West Bengal ... Read more...
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Punjab to fill all vacancies of teachers
April 2nd, 2012 - 9:40 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, April 2 (IANS) The Punjab government Monday announced that all vacancies of school and college teachers will be filled soon.Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal gave approval to fill all ... Read more...
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Punjab, Chandigarh college teachers on strike again
December 13th, 2011 - 3:03 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Dec 13 (IANS) Hundreds of teachers of private colleges across Punjab and Chandigarh went on a three-day strike Tuesday to protest the state government's failure to implement their demands, ... Read more...
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Teaching a lesson to the Badal government (Punjab Newsletter)
December 9th, 2011 - 3:46 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Dec 9 (IANS) Self-immolation, jumping from 90-foot-high water tanks and getting involved in slapgate may not be the lessons that teachers in Punjab are supposed to give to school ... Read more...
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Strike paralyses teaching in Punjab, Chandigarh colleges
November 30th, 2011 - 6:31 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Nov 30 (IANS) With hundreds of teachers in nearly 170 private colleges across Punjab and in Chandigarh going on strike Wednesday, classes were affected in these institutions.Punjab and Chandigarh ... Read more...
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Punjab, Chandigarh colleges to remain shut Wednesday
November 28th, 2011 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Nov 28 (IANS) Nearly 170 private colleges across Punjab and in Chandigarh will remain shut Wednesday following a 'college bandh' call of a teachers' union.The strike call was given ... Read more...
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Private college teachers on strike in Punjab, Chandigarh
November 8th, 2011 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Nov 8 (IANS) Teaching in scores of private colleges across Punjab and Chandigarh was affected Tuesday as hundreds of teachers took mass casual leave seeking a pension and gratuity ... Read more...
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Meghalaya college teachers strike work, 50,000 students affected
September 23rd, 2011 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Sep 23 (IANS) More than 50,000 students across Meghalaya have been affected by the eight-day strike called by college teachers Friday to protest the state government's failure to fulfil ... Read more...
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Bengal college teachers not paid salary after June
September 5th, 2011 - 12:26 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 4 (IANS) It would be a bleak Teachers' Day Monday for most college teachers in West Bengal who are yet to receive their salary since June.The new ... Read more...
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Kerala government staff want retirement age raised
September 1st, 2011 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 1 (IANS) Representatives of Kerala government employees Thursday sought their retirement age raised from the current 55 years even as the state has 4.3 million educated unemployed.At a ... Read more...
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Hindu-Muslim unity in Anna’s support
August 28th, 2011 - 4:47 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 28 (IANS) In a symbolic rejection of efforts to communalise the Anna Hazare movement, two prominent Muslim leaders here Sunday offered juice to five of his supporters ... Read more...
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Anna supporters ask PM to contest polls
August 27th, 2011 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 27 (IANS) Thousands of supporters of Anna Hazare marched down the main thoroughfares of this Uttar Pradesh capital Saturday, asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to contest Lok ... Read more...
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During Ramzan, no one notices Kashmir’s fasting teachers
August 5th, 2011 - 10:39 am ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Aug 5 (IANS) For the past week, dozens of contractual college teachers in Kashmir Valley have been on an indefinite fast in Srinagar demanding a wage hike. But theirs ... Read more...
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Quicker pensions for retiring Bengal teachers: Mamata
June 3rd, 2011 - 11:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) After getting their salary on the first day of the month, there is now more good news for the teaching community in West Bengal. Soon, ... Read more...
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No contempt move for now, Delhi college teachers told
May 16th, 2011 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday said that no contempt proceedings would be initiated against the teachers of Delhi University-affiliated Dyal Singh College who had flouted ... Read more...
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Punjab teachers union condemns Khalsa university move
April 11th, 2011 - 7:30 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, April 11 (IANS) The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) here Monday condemned the Khalsa College Education Society's proposal to set up a private university in place of ... Read more...
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Delhi High Court asks DU college teachers to end strike
March 16th, 2011 - 7:43 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 16 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has asked the teachers of Delhi University's Kalindi College, who are on strike seeking action against the president of students' union, to either ... Read more...
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Punjab, Chandigarh private college teachers on mass leave
March 15th, 2011 - 10:45 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 15 (IANS) Demanding a pension scheme, revised salaries, and revocation of ban on recruitment, hundreds of teachers from over 160 professional colleges in Punjab and Chandigarh Tuesday went ... Read more...
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Manipur teachers on strike over salary hike demand
February 23rd, 2011 - 6:43 pm ICT by ANI
Manipur, Feb.23 (ANI): Teachers in Manipur are on strike over a demand for a hike in their salaries.The teachers who have gathered under the banner of the Federation of College Teachers Associations ... Read more...
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College manager booked for ill-treating girl students
February 1st, 2011 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Feb 1 (IANS) The manager of a degree college here and his son have been booked for harassing a group of girl students during a study tour, police said Tuesday. Even ... Read more...
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Students’ strike hits medical college hospitals
January 28th, 2011 - 5:08 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 28 (IANS) Normal functioning at the five medical college hospitals in Kerala continued to be hit for the fourth day Friday as post-graduate students have struck work, demanding a stipend ... Read more...
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Bhopal college bans female teachers from wearing western outfits
December 10th, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by ANI
By Ram Chandra SahuBhopal, Dec.10 (ANI): The administration of a college in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal city has banned female teachers from wearing western clothes and the traditional 'salwar-kameez'.Sarojini Naidu Girls College ... Read more...
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Tharoor urges Sibal to intervene to solve Kerala college teachers’ problems
April 14th, 2010 - 9:10 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Apr 14 (ANI): Not deterred by controversies surrounding him as Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has written a letter to Union Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal ... Read more...
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Bill upgrading Presidency College to university passed
March 19th, 2010 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The West Bengal Assembly Friday passed a Bill upgrading the 192-year-old Presidency College into a university.
The Presidency College, which played a sterling role in the 19th century ... Read more...
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Thousands protest against France education reforms
March 13th, 2010 - 4:59 am ICT by IANS
Paris, March 13 (IANS) Thousands of students and teachers took to the streets here Friday to protest against French President Nicolas Sarkozy's education reforms, Xinhua reported.
Demonstrations were also held in major cities ... Read more...
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Kerala medical colleges doctors suspend agitation
October 29th, 2009 - 8:13 pm ICT by IANS
Kochi (Kerala), Oct 29 (IANS) The striking doctors of Kerala medical colleges, faced with divisions within their organisation, Thursday decided to suspend their ongoing strike.
The Kerala Government Medical College Teachers Association (KGMCTA) ... Read more...
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Teachers’ strike cripples work in Madhya Pradesh colleges
September 8th, 2009 - 5:13 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Sep 8 (IANS) Normal functioning in most colleges and universities in Madhya Pradesh came to a standstill Tuesday as more teachers' bodies joined an ongoing strike by professors demanding a revised ... Read more...
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Madhya Pradesh professors go on strike this Teachers Day
September 5th, 2009 - 12:48 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Sep 5 (IANS) Professors in Madhya Pradesh are marking Teachers Day in a different way this Saturday -- they have started an indefinite strike demanding higher pay.
The joint front of government ... Read more...
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After Kachru’s death, college brings out anti-ragging booklet
July 12th, 2009 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, July 12 (IANS) The Rajendra Prasad Medical College in Himachal Pradesh, where first-year student Aman Kachru died due to ragging, will now bring out an anti-ragging booklet.
Kachru, 19, died March 8 ... Read more...
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Punjab university teachers rally behind suspended professors
March 5th, 2009 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 4 (IANS) University and college teachers in Punjab have come out in support of three professors who were suspended from a leading college here for allegedly misbehaving with the principal.
"The ... Read more...
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College teachers in Punjab, Chandigarh on 72-hour strike
March 3rd, 2009 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 3 (IANS) Teachers of government and non-government colleges in Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh went on a 72-hour strike Tuesday demanding higher pay.
The 72-hour 'Education Bandh' was ... Read more...
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