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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 [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 20 (IANS) Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Manjula Chellur Friday gave directions to all the courts in the state for an immediate inquiry into the use of stamp papers, after a massive fraud of fake stamp papers was detected at a lower court here. A media report earlier this week showed [...]

(23:12) London, March 1 (IANS) A 51-year-old chestnut stallion from Brentwood, Essex, could be the world’s oldest horse, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. Shayne lives in the same town as Pip, the 24-year-old terrier who is thought to be the world’s oldest dog. The elderly nag has been living at the Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary since [...]

Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The swearing-in ceremony of seven new judges of the Calcutta High Court had to be deferred by several hours Monday as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had not signed the required papers. “The swearing-in ceremony had to be delayed because some of the papers had not been signed by chief minister [...]

New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday directed the state government’s education department to complete admission process for vacant seats for students from the economically weaker section (EWS) during the summer vacations to enable them to attend school after reopening in July 2012. The court’s order came after the government’s status report informed [...]

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 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 [...]

Hyderabad, Feb 2 (Crime News): Even as the junior doctors’ hunger strike entered ninth day today, the state government today constituted a Group of Ministers committee to study the demands and grievances of junior doctors who have been agitating for stipend increase. Health and Medical Education Minister Dr D.L.Ravindra Reddy, Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy, [...]

New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education (RTE) that mandates unaided private schools to earmark 25 percent seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society. However, the court made it clear that this reservation would not be applicable to unaided minority institutions. [...]