Child enrichment can cost Rs 1 lakh/year: Here’s how to fund your child’s preschool activity classes—from dance, music to phonicsFrom phonics to piano, music to drama, activity classes for pre-schoolers are growing fast—and so is the cost of raising a well-rounded chi...
27 Apr, 2026, 10.46 AM IST
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, worth Rs 12000 crore, reveals how he went from school topper to ‘backbencher’ in collegeVijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder of Paytm, shared his inspiring journey on The Great Indian Kapil Show, highlighting his early struggles w...
24 Aug, 2025, 02.24 PM IST
Wrong CUET-UG question paper distributed at Kanpur centre, exam rescheduled to May 29: NTA"The exam will be conducted on May 29 for over 220 students at an exam centre at Maharana Pratap Group of Colleges in Kanpur. This decision...
17 May, 2024, 09.59 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee launches 'Yogyasree' for SC/ST students in West Bengal, unveils anti-ragging helplineThe scheme was launched by the Chief Minister on Monday at a programme in Kolkata. Banerjee said, "Fifty centres will be opened all across ...
08 Jan, 2024, 09.48 PM IST
Skirmish over English: Loreto College in Kolkata revokes age-old admission policy that debarred students from vernacular mediums, issues apologyEarlier, the woman’s college, affiliated with the University of Calcutta had debarred students hailing from vernacular schools in its first...
05 Jul, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
Chhattisgarh govt decides to set up English medium college in every district of state in next 3 years"The institutes, to be named as Swami Atmanand English Medium Model Colleges, will be set up in all the district headquarters over the next...
18 Aug, 2022, 06.38 PM IST
Karnataka govt bans Hijab, saffron scarves in schools run by minority welfare departmentThe order comes amid simmering tension in the schools and colleges over minority girls with Burqa and Hijab being denied entry in the schoo...
17 Feb, 2022, 10.21 PM IST
Government on course to roll out tech education at IITs and NITs in Indian languagesThere is clear consensus in the task force on the larger aim of creating an enabling system and process for all students from a non-English...
14 Jul, 2021, 10.23 AM IST
Government analysing student data to offer language flexibility in educationWhile it is clear that the largest proportion of students who applied and appeared in the JEE Main were from the English medium, those who ...
07 Dec, 2020, 07.43 AM IST
Wuhan was a magnet for medical aspirants from IndiaThe epicentre of coronavirus is now host to medical aspirants from around the world, including India
04 Feb, 2020, 05.22 PM IST
India's atomic energy programme needs a boost: KakodkarIndia's pace in this direction (atomic energy programme) needs to be boosted further, Anil Kakodkar said at a function in Kalyan on Saturda...
14 Jul, 2018, 08.58 PM IST
Allahabad: Why there is a clamour to learn English in a primarily Hindi-speaking societySBJ American Institute of Foreign Language, an English coaching institute on Kamla Nehru Road, is the epicentre of the action to learn and ...
20 Sep, 2015, 10.53 AM IST
Proved my principal wrong by topping in studies: Lakshmi MittalRecollecting memories of his days as a student, Mittal said he was initially denied admission in the college as he could not speak English.
20 May, 2013, 11.34 AM IST
- UPSC: ABVP opposes new civil services exam pattern, to stage protest
ABVP claims the inclusion of compulsory English paper will virtually block the entry of Hindi medium students to the elite services.
09 Mar, 2013, 09.33 PM IST
- Make English the medium of instruction; mother tongue can be the second language
Junking English as a medium of education will only push us back. It is the language of commerce, politics and diplomacy.
08 Sep, 2012, 06.16 AM IST
- English should spread to rural India for rapid progress: Pawar
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday said knowledge of English should spread to rural India as the language had become a globa...
01 Jun, 2008, 11.42 PM IST
- Education tops CSR initiatives
Call it low-hanging fruit (because it is easiest to do), selfish or altruistic, but education is at the top of most companies’ Corporate So...
31 Jul, 2007, 02.24 AM IST