Education

12 Aug

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

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National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, NEET and Joint Entrance Examination, JEE 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…

09 Aug

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

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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…

31 Jul

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

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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…

30 Jul

Senior Students Slap Juniors :Ragging Horrors from MP Medical College

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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…

27 Jul

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

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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…

27 Jul

West Bengal teacher stripped naked, beaten for disciplining student

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A crew led via a minority community girl student’s mother and father stripped a girl instructor naked and assaulted her for disciplining the female in West Bengal’s South Dinajpur. On Friday afternoon, a team led with aid of the student’s dad and mom first held a protest backyard of the headmaster’s office in Trimohini Pratap Chandra High School below the Hili police station of South Dinajpur district in West Bengal over a lady trainer slapping the girl for now not attending instructions on Thursday. They then allegedly entered the teachers’ frequent room and assaulted a women teacher and stripped her…

26 Jul

LPU Graduate Gets Rs Three Crore Package

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By getting a grand placement package of INR three Crore, LPU category of 2018 passout Yasir M. has created a new placement record. Hailing from Kerala, Yasir, a B.Tech. CSE graduate from Lovely Professional University, will be working for a world-renowned multinational company, which has contributed notably to the world at some point of the pandemic, at a whopping package of Rs. three crores. He did now not pursue any other degree after graduating from LPU and attributes this success to the robust fundamentals he acquired while analyzing at the LPU campus. While at LPU, he emerged as a vivid…

24 Jul

SSC scam: Remanded in ED custody, arrested WB minister Partha Chatterjee hospitalised in Kolkata

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West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister and Trinamool Congress secretary usual Partha Chatterjee used to be remanded to ED custody for two days in connection with the instructor recruitment scam. He was produced earlier than a judge in the Bankshall courtroom in Kolkata nowadays afternoon. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket did not hear the depend as it is Saturday. Later, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Chatterjee's close associate Arpita Mukherjee, a day after the central probe enterprise seized Rs 20 crore in cash from her residence. Hours after being remanded to ED custody, Chatterjee was once…

21 Jul

JU Pro V-C found dead at his Kolkata house

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Jadavpur University (JAB) Pro Vice-Chancellor Samantak Das was found dead at his home in South Kolkata on Wednesday, police said. He was taken to Bangur Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. Police have sent the body for post-mortem. It is known that Das was suffering from depression for the past few days. University officials said when Professor Das did not come to his office in the morning, an automobile would be sent to pick him up for work. But he did not answer after knocking the door. Later the neighbors broke the door and saw his body falling from…

19 Jul

Only TET-qualified teachers to be part of madrasa education, Says UP govt

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Under the Madrasa Modernisation Scheme of the Uttar Pradesh govt., the state authorities now plans to only enable Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) qualified teachers to educate at madrasas. As phase of this new scheme, 80% modern-day training and 20% deeni schooling will be provided. The government center of attention on subjects will be Hindi, English, science, mathematics, and social science. The initiative additionally attempts to carry in transparency to the instructor appointment process. The trainer recruitment guidelines will be amended as well. Only after qualifying TET can madrasa instructors be hired. Earlier, BEd qualified instructors were employed to teach at…