With GIS map data, state looks to rationalise schoolsDuring RTE admissions last year, authorities stumbled upon 14 municipal wards in Bengaluru which did not have a single school, government-r...
With 76,000 schools on GIS map, Karnataka looks at analytics to rationalise schoolsUneven distribution of schools has been a concern experts have voiced, especially with the coming of the Right to Education (RTE) Act makin...
IIMB's Tele-education Project Expansion: State govt nixes award winning workThe project's expansion has been stalled as the IIMB-led consortium implementing the project and education authorities are trying to sort o...
Karnataka government mulls ways to tap donors for improving schoolsAuthorities have woken up to the fact that enough philanthropy and CSR funding to government schools could not be channelled due to the lac...
Karnataka government schools may get Khan Academy lessonsA team of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) officials held preliminary talks with Khan Academy representatives at New Delhi recently.
Unique numbers to be issued to Karnataka school students as part of tracking system funded by Infosys FoundationAt the school level, headmasters will login to the portal and enter data, followed by data entry at the cluster level, block level and dist...
Bengaluru: Teachers aplenty, but many government schools have too fewIn Bengaluru alone, 662 government primary schools need 921 additional teachers to ensure a pupil teacher ratio of 1:30 as prescribed under...
Karnataka cabinet clears proposal to sponsor midday meals for 22 lakh school kids in 137 taluksCongress government in the state and the NDA government at the Centre have set aside their differences to sponsor midday meals for about 22...
Invitation to deputy commissioner AB Ibrahim for temple ritual sparks controversy in Karnataka districtThe Karnataka High Court, while indicating that the matter shouldn’t have been blown out of proportion, decided that he shouldn’t officiate...
II PU Chemistry paper leaked for the second time in 10 days; re-exam scheduled for April 12Experts too expressed displeasure over the PU department's failure to adopt technology to plug question paper leaks.
Karnataka bypolls: Sonia Gandhi nixes CM Siddaramaiah's nominee Byrathi SureshSiddaramaiah had pitched for the candidature of Congress associate member and MLC Byrathi Suresh, who belongs to his community.
Bengaluru's private schools benefit at the expense of government schoolsThere were 83,008 children in government schools in Bengaluru North in 2012-13. This came down to 76,661 in 2014-15.
Probity makes way for Pawan Kumar Bansal & Subodh Kant Sahay in Congress listCongress, however, has made it clear that neither Bansal nor Sahay were involved in any wrongdoing.
- Supreme Court refuses to stay charge-framing against C K Jaffer Sharief
SC today refused to stay the framing of charges against former Union Minister C K Jaffer Sharief by a CBI Court in a 1995 corruption case.
- E-governance project helps check grassroot pension fraud in Bangalore
A bank correspondent will now be sent to each pensioner's house with a card-reader where the pensioner would swipe his smart card.