Teachers looted on gunpoint in Gurgaon
September 6th, 2012 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, Sep 6 (IANS) Seven women teachers travelling in a Maruti van were Thursday looted of cash and jewelry worth lakhs of rupees at gunpoint in daylight in a posh ... 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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Haryana not to hire teachers on contract any more
May 1st, 2012 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, May 1 (IANS) Appointment of teachers in Haryana will no longer be made on contractual basis, a minister said Tuesday."Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today (Tuesday) ordered that ... Read more...
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AMU elects its first woman in teachers association
May 1st, 2012 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Aligarh, May 1 (IANS) After being in the news for alleged gender bias, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has for the first time elected a woman to its influential teacher's ... 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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Punjab slapgate gets wider; protestors caned before Badal
December 7th, 2011 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Dec 7 (IANS) Scores of protestors were assaulted by police with batons as they blocked way to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's motorcade in Sukhna Abloo village of ... Read more...
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Software developed to monitor teacher’s vacancies in India
April 26th, 2011 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) New software has been developed to monitor teacher deployment as the Right To Education Act is implemented across the country, a human resource development ministry ... Read more...
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Gizmos replacing pens as kids’ essential classroom kit: Survey
April 24th, 2011 - 6:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 24 (ANI): Children are turning up at school fully equipped with mobile phones, iPods and MP3 players, but not the basic essential of a single pen.According to a survey of ... Read more...
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Teachers fired in China for thrashing kid
November 29th, 2010 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Nov 29 (IANS) Two kindergarten women teachers in China have been fired after a video posted online showed them thrashing and kicking a four-year-old boy.The video that appeared on internet last ... Read more...
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25 faint due to gas leak in Karachi
November 4th, 2010 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
Karachi, Nov 4 (IANS) At least 25 people, including 18 students and seven women teachers, fainted due to gas leakage in a private school in Karachi Thursday, a media report said.Due to ... Read more...
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Bareilly College women teachers protest dress code
October 13th, 2010 - 2:20 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Oct 13 (IANS) Teachers of a prestigious Bareilly College, one of the oldest in the country, in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district are up in arms against the college authorities for suggesting ... Read more...
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Dress code for Orissa’s women teachers deferred by six months
October 10th, 2010 - 3:11 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Oct 10 (IANS) Orissa has extended the dress code deadline for its high school women teachers - maroon saris with Sambalpuri borders - till the beginning of the next academic year ... Read more...
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Students take on militants in Manipur
September 15th, 2010 - 8:26 pm ICT by ANI
Imphal, Sep.15 (ANI): In a daring act against the militants, students of Johnstone Higher Secondary School here recently overpowered an armed militant as he entered their school premises to extort money for ... Read more...
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Human Rights Watch says reconciliation with Taliban could harm Afghan women
July 14th, 2010 - 1:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 14 (ANI): US-based campaign group Human Rights Watch has said that it would be inadvisable to engage the Taliban in talks, as doing so could cause irreversible harm to ... Read more...
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Two jobless women teachers jump from water tank in Punjab
June 22nd, 2010 - 8:40 pm ICT by IANS
Bathinda (Punjab), June 22 (IANS) Frustrated at the apathy of state authorities to their demands, two unemployed women teachers in Punjab jumped Tuesday from a 90-foot tall water tank. They were part ... Read more...
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Nepal school expels 29 girls for ‘being accursed’
April 25th, 2010 - 2:47 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 25 (IANS) Less than a week after a religious leader in Iran said earthquakes were caused by women who were promiscuous and wore revealing clothes, a school in Nepal's west ... Read more...
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Punjab teacher dies after setting herself ablaze (Lead)
February 8th, 2010 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
Kapurthala (Punjab), Feb 8 (IANS) A 27-year-old teacher, who set herself on fire in this Punjab town during a protest, died in a private hospital in Ludhiana early Monday, doctors said. The ... Read more...
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Punjab teacher dies after setting herself ablaze
February 8th, 2010 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
Kapurthala (Punjab), Feb 8 (IANS) A 27-year-old teacher, who set herself on fire in this Punjab town during a protest, died in a private hospital in Ludhiana early Monday, doctors said.
Kiranjit Kaur ... Read more...
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Woman teacher critical after self-immolation bid
February 8th, 2010 - 1:24 am ICT by IANS
Kapurthala (Punjab), Feb 7 (IANS) A Bollywood-style protest atop a water tank in this Punjab town went terribly wrong Sunday when a woman teacher was critically burnt after she attempted to immolate ... Read more...
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Negative attitudes ‘put males off teaching’
September 20th, 2009 - 4:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 20 (ANI): Negative attitudes about male primary school teachers are driving men away from teaching, a new study has found.According to the poll of more than 2,000 people, which was ... Read more...
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President Patil to distribute National Awards to teachers
September 5th, 2008 - 9:02 am ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sep 5 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil will distribute National Awards to teachers for the year 2007 here today.
These awards are being presented every year to accord public recognition ... Read more...
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Court orders no poll duties for women, disabled teachers
August 13th, 2008 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Election Commission of India not to insist on assigning election duties to women ... Read more...
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Strip-search of girls leads to principal’s suspension
May 7th, 2008 - 1:28 pm ICT by admin
Ranchi, May 7 (IANS) The principal of a Jharkhand school has been suspended for ordering that 13 young girls be stripped after another student complained that her pocket money had gone missing. ... Read more...
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Teachers booked for asking girl students to strip
April 28th, 2008 - 2:51 pm ICT by admin
Ranchi, April 28 (IANS) A Jharkhand school principal and four teachers have been booked for allegedly asking 13 girl students to strip to look for missing money, police said Monday. An FIR ... Read more...
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Four teachers killed in jeep crash near Chandigarh
April 3rd, 2008 - 9:24 pm ICT by admin
(Lead)Panchkula, April 3 (IANS) Four school teachers, all women, were killed and 14 others were injured Thursday when an over-loaded jeep collided with a mini-truck near the Sikh shrine of Nadha Sahib ... Read more...
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Four killed, 14 hurt in jeep-truck collision
April 3rd, 2008 - 12:53 pm ICT by admin
Chandigarh, April 3 (IANS) Four women teachers were killed and 14 injured in a collision between a jeep and a truck near Panchkula in Haryana Thursday. The jeep was an illegal taxi ... Read more...
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