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The AP Model Residential School on the outskirts of C Belagal in Andhra Pradesh was in news recently for all the wrong reasons! On saturday, the school was reduced to an empty building when all its girl students vacated the…
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5,680 schools in Kerala are facing closure due to shortage of students. As per the report published in The New Indian Express, 2,564 government schools and 3,116 government-aided schools experienced shortage of students in the year 2017-18,…
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Hundred years down the line, how will the world look at today’s technology? Will they still be using laptops, smartphones, VR glasses or Amazon Alexa? Will Brahmos missile still be a dreaded weapon? Well, we may not be alive to see the…
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Government is finding it hard to find private companies willing to participate in vocational educational projects run by the central and state governments. The reason is said to be the inordinate delays in payments by the government.…
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"Chuk chuk rylu vasthondi (the train is coming).” This is how children in the government school at Veernapalli in Sircilla (Telangana), play their games. And that's not because they are all toddlers but because this school looks like a…
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Teachers swim in flood-hit school building to save student records Teachers at Kuttamangalam SNDP Higher Secondary School at Alappuzha, Kerala, showed amazing courage when they decided to swim in their flood-hit school building just to…
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Shocking! 60 snakes found in school’s kitchen  Students and staff of Zila Parishad school in Hingoli district of Maharashtra were in for a shock when they discovered 60 highly poisonous Russell's viper snakes in the school's…
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Internship in politics? Well, well, Assam just did it In order to motivate students to take up politics as a career, Assam assembly is offering an internship programme for students. Under the programme, 20 students hailing from…
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