UP slapgate: Students to be shifted as Education Dept asks school to shut (Ld)

IANS | August 27, 2023 8:24 PM

Muzaffarnagar, Aug 27 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Education Department has ordered the closure of the private school in Muzaffarnagar district, where earlier this week a teacher allegedly asked students to slap a fellow classmate belonging to a minority community, amid pending inquiry and non-availibilty of required recognition.

Not quite the factotum of a 'moody maharaja', Ram Chandra Kak was in bed with both Brits & Jinnah

Sandeep Bamzai | August 27, 2023 4:34 PM

New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The publication of Siddharth Kak and Lily Bhan Kak's 'Love, Exile, Redemption: The Saga of Kashmir's Last Pandit Prime Minister and His English Wife', published by Rupa, has renewed the discussion on Ram Chandra Kak role as prime minister of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in the turbulent months leading up to India's Independence.

'Smart India Hackathon' to bring together 26 Central, 6 state Ministries

IANS | August 25, 2023 2:27 PM

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Smart India Hackathon (SIH), a collaborative effort by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), has secured the involvement of 26 Central and six state Ministries, as well as four industry partners.

'Don't play with future of younger generation', Pradhan slams Shivakumar over NEP

IANS | August 22, 2023 9:01 PM

New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday lashed out at the Karnataka government and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar for announcing the scrapping of the National Education Policy (NEP) in the state from the next academic year, underlining that the government should not play with future of the younger generation.

Ashoka University: Ahead of faculty deadline, IB team comes looking for Das

IANS | August 22, 2023 7:44 PM

Sonepat, Aug 22 (IANS) A team from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) knocked on the doors of Ashoka University on Monday and Tuesday, ahead of the August 23 deadline set by the faculty members for the varsity authorities demanding non-interference in their work and to address the issue concerning assistant professor Sabyasachi Das.