Jodhpur: Education opens minds, and sometimes helps conquer peaks too. For Chauthi, crippled with polio as a child, married at 16 and disowned by her in-laws soon after, education has given a new focu

New Delhi: "Give a hungry man a fish and he will be satisfied. Teach him how to fish and he will never go hungry again." Armed with this ideology, Etasha, an NGO in the capital, is training school dro

New Delhi: Does Y come before X, or vice versa? This problem of sequencing that the protagonist in Aamir Khan's latest "Taare Zameen Par" faces is typical of children suffering from dyslexia, or l

Dhanbad (Jharkhand): She sells bangles by the day to earn a living. But come evening and Hakim Bibi, who was illiterate until only 13 years ago, turns teacher to the young and old in her impoverished

Part-I (School Education & Literacy) 1. Funding:The total allocation for education has risen to Rs.32,352 crore in 2007-08, an increase by 34% over the previous year. An education cess (@ 2% on m

Patna: Mahatma Gandhi's dream of providing education with a difference to the poorest of the poor is dying in Bihar's West Champaran district. The schools set up by him are in a shambles. Suc

The shooting of a schoolboy by two other boys at Euro International School in Gurgaon projects the prevalence of violence in schools, the need for parental-teacher intervention and above all the imper

Pune: Think twice before you dump that banana peel or spinach stem into the bin. That and more waste from your kitchen can be converted into biogas to supplement your energy needs -- that too in your

Jaipur: Ayurveda remedies now at the click of a mouse! This is what the National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA) here promises for those who want to follow the age-old herbal system of Indian medicine for

New Delhi: Teenagers tend to succumb to violence as they are at a crucial point in life when they are coming to terms with their own hormonal changes, increased study load as well as peer pressure, sa

Lucknow: A Japanese television channel team is here to make a documentary film on super-intelligent brother and sister of the city who have created academic records. A team from Tokyo Broadcasting Sy

Dehradun: Urging officers and soldiers to "be able to relate to each other as trained professionals", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday committed "whatever is required" for modernisation of the

Dehradun: They may not be able to see, but they are surely endowed with the gift-of-the-gab. And they are all geared up to soon bring you all the gossip, fun and music on your radio sets. For a set o

New Delhi: Young engineers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are refusing lucrative jobs at Dow Chemicals (which owns Union Carbide) on moral grounds, as the company has been held responsi

Sitting cross-legged on the cement floor of a school for HIV-Positive children, 4-year-old Swati - one of the many Indian children infected with the deadly HIV virus - laughed excitedly, clicking the

New York: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, saying it remains the biggest challenge in fighting the disease that has infected tens of millions