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Nursery admissions: Some smile, others mope

NEW DELHI - It was the D-day that parents of 3-4-year olds were anxiously waiting for months tiogether. And when schools Monday put up the list of children who had made it to nursery class, it brought joy to the parents of successful kids and disappointment to the others, who slammed the point-system of admission as “disgusting”.

Britain to review student visa suspension by month-end

CHANDIGARH - The British high commission would decide by the end this month whether to start re-issuing student visas at its three applications centres in the northern India, an official said Monday.

India’s growth will have global effect, says HBS

NEW DELHI - The Harvard Business School (HBS) says India’s economic growth will impact the global market place and Monday announced three India-specific executive programmes.

CBSE starts counselling to reduce exam stress

NEW DELHI - As the Class 10 and 12 board examinations near, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Monday started its annual counselling for students and parents to reduce stress.

‘Optimism in India has also made people impatient for results’

NEW DELHI - The high level of optimism among the Indian people has made them impatient for results, with no room for complacency within all the pillars of democracy, including the judiciary and the media, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said.

Bihar to upgrade 2,400 middle schools to high schools

PATNA - Bihar has decided to upgrade 2,400 middle schools into high schools to provide thousands of students the opportunity to complete higher education near their homes, officials said Monday.

Computer literacy eludes Jharkhand MLAs

RANCHI - A move to make Jharkhand legislators computer-literate by providing them a free laptop each does not seem to have yielded the desired results despite more than Rs.80 lakh in public funds spent on it in the last nine years.