Posted on August 18, 2008 by Colrama
Help for Bandra braveheart’s kin
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: “He was always a quiet boy. He was always the first one to rush and help people,’’ said 55-year-old Pandurang Redkar about his 20-year-old son Mohan who died while saving a couple from drowning at Bandra bandstand four months ago.
He seemed oblivious of [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2008 by Colrama
KOLKATA: From prestigious Princeton to MIT, city boy Rik Sengupta can pick and choose where he wants to study — for free. The South Pointer has bagged full scholarship seats at seven top universities in the US.
Princeton, the top ranking university in the US, has offered him a scholarship of $52,990 a year. His [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2008 by Colrama
Tutor who sold pappad guides all 30 kids to IITs
Pranava K Chaudhary | TNN
Patna: When Patna’s maths wizard Anand Kumar, who once hawked ‘‘pappad’’ to earn a living, started his noble initiative, Super-30, to coach 30 economically weak students for IIT-JEE in 2003 free of cost, 18 of them made it to IITs.
The [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by Colrama
Treating Children With Kindness
Adil Salahi, Arab News
Children were always certain of kind treatment by the Prophet (peace be upon him). Whenever he saw a child, he received him/her with a smile and said some pleasant words, even when the Prophet was preoccupied with something very serious. Anas ibn Malik, who served the Prophet [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Colrama
3.5 lakh students bunk Hindi test in ‘ anti- English’ UP
Absenteeism rises in Class X & XII board exams
Strict Vigil against copying keeps students away
By Piyush Srivastava in Lucknow
IN AN irony of sorts, over 3.5 lakh students in the country’s Hindi heartland failed to appear for the Hindi paper in the state’s board [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2008 by Colrama
Illiteracy in UK More than a million adult Britons have a standard of literacy no better than that of a seven-year-old. For them, reading road signs, writing their names or understanding instructions on pill bottles is a hardship. Anuskha Asthana reports on how beating illiteracy can cut poverty and restore dignity
By the time [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2008 by Colrama
Bengal students best at maths: NCERT survey
Akshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi:
One of the country’s most stringent surveys of learning abilities of class V students by NCERT has found that West Bengal is on top, followed by Karnataka, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Tripura. Uttar Pradesh has also made rapid strides making it to the [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by Colrama
I am very happy to inform everyone that children’s classes wil be conducted in yet another location also.
Classes have commenced from 13 Nov 07. It is about a kilo metre away , almost at the other end of the village.
A teacher Shri Swain, has been appointed.
Hopefully this will serve another 30/40 children.
Have some photos. will [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2007 by Colrama
THE MID-DAY meal scheme, which provides much-needed nutrition to lakhs of children all over the country, faces an acute crisis. 12 crore children in 9.5 lakh schools have mid-day meals.
The Department of Food and Public Distribution, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, has told the HRD ministry that from now on wheat and rice for [...]
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Posted on September 6, 2007 by Colrama
Every month a summary of donations received and expenses in connection with the classes is sent by email to all the donors and the RWA. Am placing the comments that have been placed along with account statement for the month of Aug 07. These would (hopefully) give you an idea of the [...]
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