For Games, home guards get crash course in English March 30, 2010 | RSS 
New Delhi: Delhi's home guards are toiling hard for the Commonwealth Games - and not just for safety protocol. Topping their agenda is mastering the English language so they can converse fluently |
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Carting children to school, the eco friendly way March 26, 2010 | RSS 
Vrindavan: It could well be a case of back to the future. Bullock carts might be outmoded and belong to an era gone by, but it is the preferred mode of transport for a school here that is trying to cu |
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Dora the Explorer says no to exam stress March 26, 2010 | RSS 
New Delhi: It's exam time again and kids are overwhelmed with stress, facing sleepless nights, revision stress and tension. But popular Nicktoon Dora the Explorer is reaching out to kids with tips |
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Haryana teacher sets her sights on Mt Everest March 24, 2010 | RSS 
Kathmandu: For a person who had her first glimpse of a mountain in a poster when she was 18 years old, physical education teacher Mamata Sodah has come a long way. She is now set to scale Mt Everest, |
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Volunteers collect truckloads of garbage from Yamuna March 23, 2010 | RSS 
New Delhi: More than 3,000 schoolchildren, college students and volunteers of the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation plunged into cleaning the Yamuna amid scorching heat on Tuesday, collecting truckloads |
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Schoolkids wise up to water management in Madhya Pradesh March 22, 2010 | RSS 
Bhopal: Vikas Pawar, a student of Class 10, was so impressed by the Wise Water Management (WWM) efforts being implemented in his Madhya Pradesh school by Unicef that he made it part of a science proje |
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Should NCERT books mean endless cramming March 22, 2010 | RSS 
New Delhi: " 'Ratta', 'ratta', cram, cram... that is what our examinations are about," is the frustrated echo of many youngsters taking their school leaving Class 12 examinations this |
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Nepal's 'Living Goddess' faces acid test March 15, 2010 | RSS 
Kathmandu: One of the many thousands of students appearing for Nepal's tough school-leaving examinations is Chanira Bajracharya, who is also worshipped in Kathmandu's neighbouring Lalitpur cit |
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Board exam jitters - Youth helpline rings non-stop March 15, 2010 | RSS 
New Delhi: Students so depressed that they want to commit suicide, hapless teachers at a loss to comfort pupils, harried parents...Calls have been pouring in at the Delhi government's Yuva counsel |
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Indian economist joins Yale faculty March 12, 2010 | RSS 
Washington: Former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor Rakesh Mohan has been appointed professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance in the Yale School of Management from July 1.T |
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Child reporters raise issues, spur change in Madhya Pradesh March 06, 2010 | RSS 
Bhopal: They are village children from Madhya Pradesh and they know the power of the pen as they write in a monthly newspaper, Child Reporters, about a slew of issues like lack of water, tobacco use a |
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Hands crippled by polio, girl writes exam with pen in mouth March 02, 2010 | RSS 
Kolkata: Nasima Khatun, 16, cannot hold a pen in her hands and write. A polio attack when she was five has left her hands crippled. But she has appeared for the class 10 board exams in West Bengal and |
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CBSE students cope with last minute jitters March 02, 2010 | RSS 
New Delhi: With the board examinations beginning next week, class 10 and 12 students are a tense lot, busy with last-minute preparations while the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) hel |
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