Bengaluru: Chief minister DK Shivakumar’s announcement allowing teachers to use ‘Tr’ as a prefix before their names has drawn a mixed response, with teachers’ associations welcoming the move, while education experts called for greater attention to the profession’s status and teachers’ working conditions.Ramya Venkataraman, founder and CEO of the Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA), said…
A woman suffered a crushed ankle and required emergency surgery after hitting a hidden pothole; Representative image (R) BENGALURU: A woman has urged civic authorities to urgently repair roads after she allegedly suffered a crushed ankle in an accident caused by an unmarked, waterlogged pothole on Varthur Road, leaving her requiring emergency plastic surgery and…
File photo of women in a drought-hit rural area struggling to fetch drinking water amid severe water scarcity. File photo of women in a drought-hit rural area struggling to fetch drinking water amid severe water scarcity. File photo of women in a drought-hit rural area struggling to fetch drinking water amid severe water scarcity. File…
Light Endures: Health minister UT Khader, MLC Ivan D’Souza, and other guests pay respect to former President S Radhakrishnan during Teachers’ Day celebrations at the Kudmul Ranga Rao Town Hall in Mangaluru Saturday Mangaluru: Mere literacy is not enough and value-based education is the need of the hour, health minister UT Khader said Saturday.Speaking after…
Woman accused four people of abducting her and her young son. BENGALURU: A dispute over loans and mounting interest allegedly took a horrifying turn after a woman accused four people of abducting her and her young son, confining them, assaulting her and threatening to circulate a video of her after allegedly forcing her to strip.Fathima…
Ratnamma NM, recipient of teacher’s award Shaina Kumari, recipient of best teacher award krishnamurthy, recipient of best teacher’s award Ratnamma NM, recipient of teacher’s award Shaina Kumari, recipient of best teacher award krishnamurthy, recipient of best teacher’s award Ratnamma NM, recipient of teacher’s award Bengaluru: This Teacher’s Day, 20 primary and 11 high school teachers…
Bengaluru: Karnataka high court recently quashed an FIR against a man accused of sexually harassing a woman after she came across him answering nature’s call near a railway track. The woman had alleged that the man exposed his private parts and made inappropriate gestures at her. The court, however, found that the gesture was a…
Bengaluru: The state govt is planning to seek views from students, parents, education experts and other stakeholders before finalising reforms in the education sector.A decision to this effect was taken at the first meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on students’ issues and education reforms, headed by health minister UT Khader, held at Vidhana Soudha Thursday….
Chief minister DK Shivakumar assessed impact of the drought on onion, chilli and sunflower crops in Bagalkot Bengaluru: Chief minister DK Shivakumar Friday defended the withdrawal of the Karnataka Govt Parks (Preservation) Amendment Bill, insisting it wasn’t a U-turn as principal opposition BJP had claimed, and was only to facilitate a detailed discussion on the…
Clean-up job: Booth-level officers, mostly govt schoolteachers, on SIR duty in Bengaluru on Friday Bengaluru: Even while more instances of errors during the enumeration phase were brought to light, the first hearings on notices issued as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began Thursday, with 206 hearings completed by noon Friday,…
