NEW DELHI - Denied admission to the Kendriya Vidyalaya for being "overage", a seven year old boy approached the Delhi High Court Thursday questioning the admission criteria of the central government school under the right to education law.
Mass. meeting in wake of bullying case gets heated
CHANDIGARH - Three new medical colleges, including one in memory of Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-origin woman in space, will be opened in Haryana to provide better health care to people in the state.
NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothingNEW YORK — The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed "rubber rooms" as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union announced Thursday.
CHANDIGARH - At a time when non-Congress governments in some states are opposing the central government's initiative for the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the Akali Dal-led government in Punjab Thursday announced that it will cover over 65,000 children in the age group 6-14 years within three years under the new law.
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