Bedtime stories improve child literacy

WASHINGTON - Reading a bedtime story to your child for 20 minutes every night could improve his or her literacy by at least 10 school days a year, experts have said.

Police: Notre Dame recruit ‘drunk and belligerent’ in fatal fall off Florida hotel balcony

Police: Notre Dame recruit ‘drunk’ on fatal fall

IIM-Calcutta hikes fees by 50 percent, intake reduced

KOLKATA - Premier management institute Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) Saturday decided to hike fees for its flagship post-graduate course, but reduced its intake of students citing lack of infrastructure.

No funds to implement Right to Education Act: Mayawati

LUCKNOW - In yet another retort to the union government, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday declared that she was not in a position to implement the provisions of the new Right to Education Act in the state.

Sibal to tour New Zealand for educational ties

NEW DELHI/HAMILTON - In the backdrop of the cabinet nod to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal is to tour New Zealand next week to seek closer ties in the educational sector.

Centre to increase enrolment ratio in education

SHILLONG - The central government proposed to increase its gross enrolment ratio (GER) in education sector from the current 12.4 percent to 30 percent by 2020, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday said here.

University Of Hyderabad Issues Admission Notice