Voter registration is still a hassle in Pune
With lack of communication on the part of district election branch, citizens had to run from pillar to post to submit their documents on the last day of enrollment in to the voters' list. Citizens...
View Article'Harassed' by teachers, schoolgirls end lives
*Two tenth-standard girl students of a private high school allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Sankey Tank on Tuesday after they were reportedly punished by their teacher.* The 15-year-old...
View ArticlePunished in school for playing Holi, girls commit suicide
According to the parents of Priyanka and Sonali, who jumped into Sankey lake, seven girls of Mary Immaculate High School, Lakkasandra, were made to stand outside the staff room for playing Holi on...
View ArticleParents, relatives protest against girls' suicide
*Parents and relatives of two Class 10 students, who committed suicide on Tuesday, staged a protest in front of Mary Immaculate Girls' High School on Wednesday seeking action against the two teachers...
View ArticleInitiative to help students in distress
*A number of schools in the City are part of an initiative to provide "peer support" and help other students - classmates or juniors - who might be under a lot of stress or depression. * This...
View ArticleSuicides point to security lapses near water bodies
* The suicide by two high school students who jumped into the Sankey Tank on Tuesday and the drowning of an engineering student at Hunasemaranahalli lake the day before underline the need for enhancing...
View ArticleBishop’s High School wins Cricket Cup in Pune
Pune: Debutants Bishop’s High School signed off their first champion on high winning the Kohinoor Karandhik inter-school cricket championship, beating NVM by eight wickets in the final which concluded...
View ArticleEx-Army Chief Gen V K Singh to file nomination tomorrow
Former Army Chief Gen V K Singh, who is the BJP candidate from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, will file his nomination tomorrow giving his date of birth as May 10, 1951, a date on which he failed to...
View ArticleBoy rescued; dismissed teacher-abductor arrested
*Akshay, a one-and-a-half-year-old boy, who was abducted from an Anganwadi centre at Nagavarapalya in Baiyappanahalli police limits, has been rescued by police. He was handed over to his parents Ratna...
View ArticleUS first lady Michelle Obama visits Beijing school
First lady Michelle Obama tried her hand at Chinese calligraphy on Friday during a visit to a high school in Beijing at the start of a weeklong visit to China aimed at promoting education and...
View ArticleWorld Water Day Special: Saving 365 crore litres of water, that’s his mission
Pune: A television artist from Pune has taken up the mission to save 365 crore litres of tap water through his campaign of repairing over 7,000 leaking taps across the city. He has roped in students...
View ArticleShortage of labourers? Moodushedde farmer shows the way
*With dwindling of area under paddy cultivation in coastal region for shortage of labourers and increasing the cost of production, the challenge before farmers is to increase the productivity....
View ArticleBarack Obama tweets his congratulations to underdog Dayton basketball team
President Barack Obama, a big basketball fan, tweeted his congratulations to the University of Dayton for its "huge upset win" over Syracuse University in the second round of the NCAA men's basketball...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi to visit West Bengal, Tripura
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will visit West Bengal and Tripura Tuesday to meet party workers ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The day-long visit would begin with a...
View ArticleCPM data blasts Gujarat development
*The CPM on Monday came out with extensive data on economic development in Gujarat to "expose" what the party terms to be a "big lie" on the part of Narendra Modi. * The data shows that the state is...
View ArticleSaga of a lunch time story teller to NRI editor
*In a flash back reel of black and white laced memory located at St Mary's Girls High school in Mangalore, the students of 10th standard will all crowd around their classmate during lunch breaks to...
View Article'Mangalapex 2014' unravels the world of posts
*The exhibition of stamps, first day covers, greeting envelops, pictorial cancellations at DK district-level philatelic exhibition — Mangalapex 2014, chronicled history of the country as well as that...
View ArticleMore teenage boys reporting ‘forced’ sex by women in US
Washington, March 26 (IANS) Women are seducing or even threatening teenage boys and male college students into forced or coerced sex, according to a significant study that explores sexual victimisation...
View Article'Harassed' by teachers, schoolgirls end lives
*Two tenth-standard girl students of a private high school allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Sankey Tank on Tuesday after they were reportedly punished by their teacher.* The 15-year-old...
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