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Telangana government caps weight on school bags
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 22 (ANI): The Telangana Education Department has passed a new government order which caps the weight of school bags for students in primary schools. According to the order, no student up to class five should be carrying bags weighing more than five kilos
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UK PM May praises Birmingham's multi-faith Nishkam Primary School
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Birmingham [United Kingdom], May 17 (ANI): British Prime Minister Theresa May visited the Nishkam Primary School in Birmingham on Tuesday, where she interacted with pupils, staff and the community who are closely involved with the pioneering free school.
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Turns out, nearly half of primary schoolkids don't drink milk at all
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 11 (ANI): Would your kid aged nine to 11 rather neck fizzy cola than drink milk? You are not alone, suggests a recent study.
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Odisha: Villagers thrash teacher for sexually assaulting students
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Baripada (Odisha) [India], Mar. 30 (ANI): Villagers of Odisha's Baripada on Wednesday beat up a school teacher for allegedly sexually assaulting girl students of Marakandi primary school.
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New research delves into children's beliefs about fruit, vegetables
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 21 (ANI): Researchers recently conducted an interview study investigating primary school children's beliefs towards eating fruit and vegetables and the causes leading to it.
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Telangana: NHRC issues notice over child's death after falling in hot
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 28 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that five-year-old child Jayawardhan tumbled into a vat filled to the brim with hot sambar at the time of serving the mid-day meal in a primary school at Nalgonda in Telanga
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Could online tutors and artificial intelligence be the future of teaching?
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec. 26(ANI):Nearly 4,000 British primary school children enrolled for weekly one on one maths sessions with Indian and Sri Lankan tutors. Third Space Learning, the company providing the lessons is targeting pupils struggling with maths - particularly from underprivileged backgr
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Kashmir unrest: Another school gutted down Kupwara
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Nov. 18 (ANI): A Government Primary School building was torched by unidentified miscreants on Friday night in Rigipora area of Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, an unnamed official confirmed.
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Teacher commits suicide after made to lick shoes in police custody
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov.5 (ANI): A primary school teacher in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh committed suicide after being subjected to humiliation in police custody.
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Odisha: About 52,000 primary schools have no teacher per class
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Sept. 23 (ANI): About 52 thousand government primary and upper primary schools functioning under the School and Mass Education Department in Odisha have no teacher for each class and above 41 thousand schools have no room for each class.
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Teachers fight all odds for students' education
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Badaun (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept. 5 (ANI): Taking note of the increase in school dropouts, the teachers of a primary school in Tikri in Kosaba block of Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district have come up with several initiatives to encourage the kids to pursue education.
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Ten-year sentence for school principal in Chhapra mid-day meal poison case
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chhapra (Bihar)[India], Aug.29 (ANI): A local court in Chhapra on Wednesday gave a ten-year sentence to the principal of the Gandaman Government Primary School in connection with the case in which 23 school students had died after eating a poisonous mid-day meal in July 2013.
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