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India's literacy rate up from 74 pc to 80.9 pc in 13 years: Dharmendra PradhanIndia's literacy rate has significantly improved, reaching 80.9% in 2023-24, as highlighted by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan....- Himachal a 'fully literate state', achieves 99.3% literacy rate: CM Sukhvinder Singh SukhuHimachal Pradesh has been declared a fully literate state. The state's literacy rate has reached 99.3 percent, surpassing the national benc...
- International Literacy Day 2025: The history and significance of a day that reshaped global educationInternational Literacy Day 2025 emphasizes literacy as vital for dignity and opportunity, highlighting progress since its 1966 inception. W...
- Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif declares education emergency on International Literacy DayPakistan has declared an education emergency to address the issue of 26 million out-of-school children. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif annou...
- World Computer Literacy Day: Significance and history. Here are all you should knowDecember 2 is celebrated as World Computer Literacy Day. The custom of celebrating the world computer literacy day started in 2001 by the I...
- Taliban close girls schools in east that had briefly openedEarlier this month, four girls schools above grade 6 in Gardez, the provincial capital, and one in the Samkani district began operating wit...
- Government working tirelessly towards 'Education for All' mission: Amit ShahThe International Literacy Day 2020 focuses on 'Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond', especially on the role o...
- International Literacy Day: Origins, significance and what lies aheadAt the 14th session of Unesco's general conference in 1966, September 8 was declared as the International Literacy Day. And it was celebrat...
- Ten development efforts that will take India's literacy to new heightsThere is need to extend it beyond rote learning of concepts. It should largely focus on cognitive development to a belief that values the u...
- International Literacy Day: 758 million people in the world are not literate
- Set age-wise target for complete literacy by 2016: Smriti IraniIrani today asked officers of the adult literacy mission to fix age-wise target to attain complete literacy in the next one year.
- N Chandrababu Naidu seeks corporates' help to turn Andhra Pradesh into knowledge hubThe Chief Minister appealed corporates to donate 2 pct of their revenue to the education sector of the state to transform it into a knowled...
- MP wants steps to bring back 2 Indian professors kidnapped in LibyaA strong plea for making urgent efforts to bring back two Indian professors who have been kidnapped in Libya was made by a TDP member in th...
- Improve literacy level to match advanced nations: Pranab MukherjeeThe President lauded the initiatives taken so far to achieve a four-fold increase in literacy levels from 18 per cent in 1951 to 74 per cen...
- Tripura to emerge as fully literate state by SeptemberTripura will emerge as a total literate state in the country before World Literacy Day on September 8, a minister said today.
- Cash-for-vote scam rocks Parliament, both Houses adjournedThe cash-for-vote scam rocked both Houses of Parliament with BJP objecting to the arrest of two of its "whistleblower" former MPs.
- 'Rajivji too wanted quick action on edu reforms'Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal took the opportunity accorded by the Literacy Day celebrations to take on his critics.
- President pitches for comp education to check cyber crimeWith cyber crime incidents on the rise, President Pratibha Patil on Monday pitched for proliferation of computer education as part of ongoi...
- Neo-literates to get exposure to scheduled languageAdult education programme in India is all set to enter a new phase to enable neo-literates, taught in their mother tongue, get exposure to ...
- ICICI Bank joins hands with NGOs to educate childrenLeading private lender ICICI Bank has joined hands with NGOs to reach out to children in ten states helping them have better access to educ...
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