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Kabul, March 10 (IANS) Suspected Taliban militants have set a school on fire in Afghanistan, Xinhua reported Saturday. The incident took place Friday night in Badghis province, over 550 km from Kabul, provincial administration spokesman Sharafudin Majidi said. A major portion of the school building, stationery and textbooks were destroyed, he said. Girls from several villages [...]

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 [...]

(19:35) Amritsar, March 1 (IANS) The principal of a government girls school in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district was suspended Thursday following complaints that he had given corporal punishment to students, officials said. Dalbir Singh, principal of the secondary school at Kairon, 40 km from Amritsar, was suspended by the education department after a report submitted by [...]

Shimla, March 2 (IANS) He was a Pakistani dictator feared by many, but there was a time when Zia-ul Haq found himself at the receiving end. The incident dates back to a time when he was a student in a school in Shimla. The late president of Pakistan was imposed a fine of two annas for [...]

Hyderabad, Feb 3 (Crime News): The government has asked the junior doctors to resume their duties failing which action would be taken against them, said minister for school education Dr  S.Shailajanath today. The member of cabinet sub-committee Dr Shailajanath said that the main demand of the junior doctors was to scrap the rule for compulsory [...]

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 [...]

Manama, April 12 (IANS) Two home-made bombs were Thursday hurled into a school in Bahrain, but there were no casualties in the blasts, Xinhua reported. The education ministry said a “loud explosion” was heard after the first bomb was hurled into the Abdulrahman Al Dakheel Boys Intermediate Boys School. The blast occurred before the students started [...]

London, Feb 18 (IANS) A group of students hacked their school website so their parents could not find out a message assuring parents that it will remain open despite snowfall. The Jewish Free School posted the message on its website after snowfall began in Harrow, in northwest London, Feb 4, Daily Mail reported Saturday. Just to [...]

The Higher Education Minister Parthasaradhi has threatened to impose ‘Zero year’ cancelling the current academic year, like in 1969, in case all the educational institutions did not reopen and function as scheduled. The Minister arrived at a decision after a high level review of the current situation on the education front in the backdrop of the T agitation, [...]

Beijing, March 26 (IANS) At least three primary school students died and 14 were injured, one of them critically, in China’s Hebei province Monday after their school van overturned, said officials. Driven by a school teacher, the seven-seater van was overloaded. He was taking the students to school in the morning, the Shanghai Daily reported. The [...]