Education

‘Lathi-charge on BPSC aspirants unacceptable’: BJP attacks Nitish Kumar govt for ‘anti-students’ stance

‘Lathi-charge on BPSC aspirants unacceptable’: BJP attacks Nitish Kumar govt for ‘anti-students’ stance

On Wednesday (August 31) condemning the lathi-charge on Bihar Public Service Commission candidates, Minister of State for Home affair Nithyananda Rai demanded action against irresponsible officials. Speaking to ANI, Nithyananda Rai accused the newly formed alliance authorities of exerting pressure on BPSC candidates."The JDU-RJD authorities had promised to provide 20 lakh jobs to the youth of Bihar but instead of keeping their word, Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav are using force on BPSC students who are only concerned about their right to free and fair exams," the minister said. Notably, there have been clashes between BPSC candidates and police personnel…
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UGC to launch ‘e – Samadhan’ portal to resolve grievances of students, staff

UGC to launch ‘e – Samadhan’ portal to resolve grievances of students, staff

Higher schooling area regulator University Grants Commission (UGC) will now monitor and get to the bottom of all grievances of college students and group of workers in varsities via a centralised portal referred to as e-Samadhan, which will be made operational next week, an respectable said. “Resolution of grievances of institutional entities has been a top priority of constant fees and in a step towards that, UGC has brought e-solutions-online grievance registration and monitoring system which is a digital platform to identify stakeholders. Follow up for complaints, feedback or questions,” said reliable. This platform ensures transparency, prevents unfair practices in…
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JMI University cancels activist Safoora Zargar’s admission citing ‘unsatisfactory’ progress in thesis work

JMI University cancels activist Safoora Zargar’s admission citing ‘unsatisfactory’ progress in thesis work

Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has cancelled the admission of scholar and activist Safoora Zargar, who got arrested in a 2020 riots case, due to "unsatisfactory" development in her thesis work. Zargar, who had enrolled with the Department of Sociology in the built-in MPhil/PhD programme, said the cancellation "breaks my coronary heart however no longer my spirit". In a notification dated August 26, workplace of the dean, Faculty of Social Science, said she did no longer submit her M.Phil dissertation within the most stipulated time of five semesters. "The registration of Safoora Zargar from M.Phil./Ph.D. (Sociology) stands cancelled w.e.f. 22…
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On camera, Patna bureaucrat thrashes protesting job aspirant holding national flag

On camera, Patna bureaucrat thrashes protesting job aspirant holding national flag

Hundreds of aspirants for teachers' posts protested the prolongation of their recruitment by baton-charging the police in Bihar's capital Patna on Monday. A video of the protest has gone viral, showing a bureaucrat beating a protester to the ground. Once there was a protest at the Dak Bangla intersection in Patna. In the video, the official, identified as KK Singh, Additional District Magistrate of Patna, can be seen dragging the man and beating him as he crouches on the floor and holds the national flag in his hand. The flag was later confiscated by the police. A large number of…
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Didn’t ask teacher to quit over swimsuit pics, says VC of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s University

Didn’t ask teacher to quit over swimsuit pics, says VC of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s University

Amid on line campaigns aiding a former assistant professor of St Xavier's University, who claimed she used to be pressured to end her job over some of her Instagram images in a swimsuit, its VC Father Felix Raj has rebuffed the allegation and said it was "humiliating to assume" the group would do so. In a statement, Raj stated the university "believes in retaining and retaining the dignity and honour of its teachers, staff members, college students and others connected with it".The 31-year-old PhD holder, who had joined the organization in Rajarhat in August 2021, had stated she was accused…
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Government plans to merge NEET, JEE into CUET: UGC chairperson Jagadesh Kumar

Government plans to merge NEET, JEE into CUET: UGC chairperson Jagadesh Kumar

National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, and Joint Entrance Examination, may turn out to be a thing of the past. If the state-of-the-art suggestion despatched out by University Grants Commission has to be considered, NEET, JEE Main assessments would possibly be merged with the currently launched Common University Entrance Test or CUET, making CUET a one entrance take a look at for all. UGC Chairman, Professor M Jagadesh Kumar has told TOI that the commission is working on a idea that would combine the separate entrance examinations for medical and engineering into the CUET. Speaking to TOI, Kumar introduced that there…
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Kolkata college ‘forces’ assistant professor to quit over complaint of student looking at her bikini pics

Kolkata college ‘forces’ assistant professor to quit over complaint of student looking at her bikini pics

A former assistant professor at St Xavier’s University in Kolkata has alleged that she used to be forced to quit after a father or mother complained that he had observed his son looking at images of her in a bikini on Instagram, The Wire reported. The former assistant professor, referred to as Nandini Guha (name changed) in the report, alleged that the university pulled her up after receiving a written criticism from a first yr male undergraduate student’s father remaining year. In the letter, the mum or dad says that he had caught his son looking at images of the…
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Bhartiya Sports initiative: ‘Gilli danda’, ‘langdi’, other indigenous games to be  introduce in schools

Bhartiya Sports initiative: ‘Gilli danda’, ‘langdi’, other indigenous games to be introduce in schools

This Friday (July 29) marked the 2nd anniversary of the implementation of the National Education Policy launched via Union Home Minister Amit Shah. During an match to mark the anniversary of the 2020 policy, Shah launched a sequence of initiatives in the training and competencies improvement region to mark the occasion. One of them was once the introduction of seventy five Bharatiya Games in faculties which include 'gilli danda', 'kabbadi', 'posham pa', and 'kanche' under the Education Ministry's initiative titled Indian Knowledge Systems. According to reports, quite a few games from exceptional states have been listed to be integrated in…
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Senior Students Slap Juniors :Ragging Horrors from MP Medical College

Senior Students Slap Juniors :Ragging Horrors from MP Medical College

A video from Madhya Pradesh’s government scientific university of Ratlam district, which shows ragging of junior students taking place, surfaced on Saturday, 30 July. The video is said to have been secretly shot a couple days ago by way of some students and emerged on Saturday. The video shows extra than eight junior students standing in line with their heads bowed down, whilst senior college students slap them one after another. Meanwhile, Dr Jitendra Kumar Gupta, Dean, Ratlam Medical College, informed The Quint that they have taken cognisance of the matter and have convened the anti-ragging committee to check out…
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Tamil Nadu Class 12 Student Dies Allegedly By Suicide, 5th Case In Two Weeks

Tamil Nadu Class 12 Student Dies Allegedly By Suicide, 5th Case In Two Weeks

A Class 12 boy allegedly committed suicide in Tamil Nadu today, sparking concern and protests over a rash of schoolboy deaths in the state.This is the fifth incident in two weeks and the second in just 24 hours. The boy was once found dead in his house in Sivaganga district. Police said he left a suicide note in which he said he could not cope with maths and biology. Earlier, four schoolgirls died by suicide; Three of them are in class 12. This morning, a girl from class 11 was found dead in Shivkashi. The girl had been suffering from…
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