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80 tribal girls told to skip classes from Jharkhand school
PATNA: A government school in Jharkhand has asked 80 tribal girls not to attend classes citing lack of sitting space in the classrooms.
The hapless girls were admitted to state…
Bihar schoolchildren get unique ‘homework’-arranging toilets at home!
PATNA: Thousands of students enrolled in government and private schools have been given a fairly unique ‘homework’ — arrange for toilets at home, compulsorily!
Authorities said…
Jharkhand school suspends 90 schoolgirls for applying henna
PATNA: A leading private school in Jharkhand sate has suspended as many as 90 girl students from the school for two days for applying henna in their hands.
All the victim girls…
Bihar professor beaten up, disrobed for his Facebook comments on Vajpayee
PATNA: A university professor Sanjay Kumar was publicly humiliated and thrashed in Bihar after he reportedly shared a Facebook post criticising former Prime Minister Atal Bihari…
Bihar university arms its staffs with bamboo sticks to tackle rowdysim on the campus
PATNA: A university in Bihar in a bizarre move has armed all its staffs with well-oiled bamboo sticks to deal with the troublemakers in the aftermath of growing rowdism on the…
Bihar govt planning to appoint little schoolgirl as brand ambassador
PATNA: The state government in Bihar is planning to appoint Hansika, a schoolgirl, as brand ambassador of the state for her fight against the child marriage which remains in…
What’s happening in Bihar? Now, miscreants burn 7,000 evaluated answer scripts
PATNA: Authorities in Bihar have ordered an investigation after around 7,000 answer scripts of Grade 10 students set on fire by unidentified miscreants apparently in a bid to…
Thousands of missing class 10 answer sheets traced to scrap shop in Bihar
PATNA: Thousands of written answer sheets of Class 10 students which had gone missing from the strong room of a government school in Bihar have been found dumped at a scrap shop.…
Class 10 result postponed as 43,000 evaluated answer-sheets go missing from strongroom
PATNA: Authorities in Bihar have postponed the result of the Glass 10 examination conducted by the state school board after the answer-sheets of thousands of students who appeared…
Half of Afghan children out of school due to conflict, poverty: UNICEF
New York: Nearly 3.7 million Afghan children are missing out on school, due to on-going conflict, grinding poverty, and discrimination against girls, according to a new report from…