Patna, April 19 (IANS) The Bihar government has sacked 151 primary school teachers after they failed to clear two consecutive eligibility tests, officials Thursday said. The education department has ordered that they be sacked after they failed two consecutive eligibility tests conducted in 2010 and 2011 by the State Council for Educational Research and Training. “These [...]
Patna, Feb 17 (IANS) Thirty-six people were arrested Friday for leaking the Secondary Teachers Eligibility Test (STET) question papers in Bihar, officials said. The question papers for the STET entrance test were leaked in over half a dozen districts in the state. Police have arrested 18 people in Nalanda, 14 in Jamui and four in Supaul [...]
Hyderabad, April 3 (IANS) In another shocking incident of corporal punishment, a woman teacher in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district severely punished 12 girl students who had to be hospitalized. The incident took place Tuesday at Gudur town in Nellore district, about 400 km from here. According to police, the teacher at a government-run school lost her [...]
Patna, Feb 22 (IANS) Six people were arrested Wednesday for leaking the Class 10 English examination question paper in Bihar, officials said. Hours before the first day of the examination, the paper got leaked in a dozen districts. Police arrested four people in Hajipur in Vaishali district and one each in Munger and Nalanda districts over [...]
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) A 28-year-old school teacher was found shot dead in a park in the capital, police said Wednesday. Pradeep’s body was recovered around 10 p.m. Tuesday from a park in west Delhi’s Narela area after a passerby informed the police. The victim, who had six bullet wounds on his body, hailed from [...]
Hyderabad, Jan 27 (Crime News): One of the top aides of Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy, and auditor of Jagathi Publications Vijayasai Reddy may be subjected to an interesting but based on modern technology – the Narco test in which the accused will be administered a chemical sodium pentothal through an intravenous injection. Under the influence of the [...]
By Garima Tyagi New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Leaving an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) course midway or after confirming the admission will now cost students dear as the Delhi High Court has held that this would bar them from reappearing in the entrance test in the following year. Justice Hima Kohli has upheld the decision [...]
Karnal (Haryana), Feb 21 (IANS) A six-year-old boy in Karnal district was locked up in a dark room by his kindergarten teacher for not doing his homework and died of trauma one and a half months later, police said Tuesday after receiving a complaint from his family. The LKG student, Pankaj, died at the Post-Graduate Institute [...]
Hyderabad, June 11 (TMS): The main accused Y Jaganmohan Reddy is likely to be subjected to the narcotic test as he was found to be not cooperating with the investigating agency sleuths and the special court has been approached with a request to permit it to employ the narcotic test on the accused. The [...]
Bhubaneswar, March 20 (IANS) Union Tourism Minister Subadh Kant Sahay Tuesday said the abduction of two Italian nationals by Maoists in Odisha will not have any adverse impact on tourism in the country. Describing the crisis as a very sensitive issue, Sahay, however, emphasized the need to build an inter-state coordination mechanism among the Maoist insurgency-affected [...]