Chennai: Teachers and school heads have called for standardised assessments for Classes 3, 5 and 8, better teacher training and a law to protect educational institutions from violence.The School Voice Association presented the demands in a memorandum on the challenges facing school principals. Teachers, principals and educationists from schools across the state took part.The association…
Protestors takeout a rally against SIR at Bagh Lingampally in the city on Saturday Hyderabad: A protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was held in the city on Saturday evening, with protesters opposing the exercise and the alleged illegal detentions of those travelling to New Delhi to participate in a demonstration…
Kolkata: A trial run on the Orange Line between Beleghata station on E M Bypass and the IT Centre (Sector V) station was conducted on Mahalaya morning as a train ran on a stretch, where work had been stuck for over two years.The trial runs, which would now continue for the next several weeks, would…
Gorakhpur: Four persons, including an elderly couple and a gas agency delivery worker, suffered burn injuries after a fire broke out while a domestic LPG cylinder was being checked at a house in Raptinagar Phase-I on Saturday morning.Three of the injured were admitted to Nehru Hospital at BRD Medical College, while the delivery worker was…
Social media feeds are filled with videos from influencers vying for attention, and police stations too are increasingly packaging their work as short, edited clips How far should police go to make their work visible on social media? Should a routine patrol come with a film score, a senior officer’s arrival be shot in slow…
Councillors gather at Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan ahead of the MC general house meeting, which was later postponed following the death of AAP councillor Usha Kalyan; and Congress councillor Gaurav Bhatti and a colleague display a sack of fake currency notes while protesting against the MC’s proposed Rs 82 crore mechanised road sweeping tender in…
Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini Chandigarh: The Haryana Cabinet on Friday passed a resolution expressing gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on completing 25 years in public service as the head of govt.Moved by social justice and empowerment minister Krishan Kumar Bedi, the resolution praised Modi’s contribution to the country and Haryana. It also…
Shillong: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) president Álvaro Lario on Friday flagged off a consignment of fresh Megha-1 turmeric from Bhoirymbong in Ri-Bhoi district for export to Singapore.Lario is on an official visit to Meghalaya to review the grassroots progress of the Meghalaya Livelihoods and Access to Markets Project (Megha-LAMP).The consignment was flagged off…
Jaipur: Rajasthan Home Guards can contest assembly and local body elections without being disqualified merely because they are attached to the force, State Election Commission clarified Saturday, while cautioning that other govt-linked workers may still face the “office of profit” bar.The clarification is significant ahead of the panchayat elections as it guides returning officers on…
NEW DELHI: India on Saturday termed the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s concern over the mass detention of protesters in Delhi as “misplaced” and said the right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the country’s Constitution.In a social media post on X, India at UN said the remarks by the Office of the United Nations…
