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Dalit Girl Stopped From Attending School In Madhya Pradesh, 7 Arrested
Police have arrested seven persons after a minor Dalit girl was allegedly told not to attend school by a group of local residents on the ground that other girls, too, were not studying in a village here in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday.
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Manipur Girl Who Attended Class With Baby Sister In Lap Gets Admission In New School
A 10-year-old girl in Manipur, whose photo of attending school with her newborn sister in lap went viral last month, has secured admission in a boarding school in Imphal.
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"Bow To This Young Fighter": Manipur Girl Attends School With Baby Sister In Lap
Manipur's minister Biswajit Singh posted the photo of the girl which is now doing the rounds on Twitter. He has vowed to help the 10-year-old.
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67% Girls In Urban Slums Didn't Attend Online Classes During 1st Lockdown: Report
The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.
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Now Hijab Row In Puducherry School. State Gets Complaints Against Teacher
The Puducherry government's Directorate of School Education has asked the head of a government school in Ariyankuppam, Puducherry to enquire into the incident of alleged objection by a teacher to a Muslim girl wearing hijab while attending classes.
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Jharkhand: Birhor Girl First Student From Her Tribe To Pass Class 12 Board Exam
Jharkhand Class 12 Exams: Rashmi Birhor is the first-generation student of her family at Birhor Tola in west Bokaro, which falls under Ramgarh district, to attend school and clear the Class 12 board examination in the Second Division.
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Unable To Attend School, Students In Mumbai's Aarey Get Phones To Study
Last month NDTV highlighted the difficulties young boys and girls were facing, and the response was heart-warming, with actor Sonu Sood among those who pitched in and bought smartphones for students
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Unable To Join Online Classes, Kerala Schoolgirl Commits Suicide: Cops
A Class 10 student from a Scheduled Caste background committed suicide on Monday by setting herself on fire in Kerala's Malappuram district because she could not attend online school classes
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To Check Harassment, Bengal School Asks Boys, Girls to Attend Classes On Different Days
To check harassment, a government-run school in West Bengal's Malda district has issued a directive asking male and female students to attend school on different days of the week.
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30% Girls From India's Poorest Families Never Attended School: Research
Calling the current scenario of girls education in India as "precarious", national convenor of the RTE forum Ambarish Rai on Thursday said about 30 per cent of girls from the poorest families in the country have never set foot inside a classroom.
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Woman Attendant Must For PT Classes In Girls' Schools: West Bengal Government
The instruction comes days after the GD Birla school incident in the city where a four-year-old nursery student was allegedly sexually assaulted by two physical training (PT) teachers within the school premises.
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Haryana Teen Raped On Way Back From Independence Day Function
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped while returning home after attending Independence Day celebrations at her school in Kyorak village in Haryana's Kaithal, police said today.
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Five employees of MCD school suspended after seven-year-old allegedly raped
Five employees of a school, run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), have been suspended after a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped in the school premises on Thursday. The principal of the school in north-west Delhi's Mangolpuri area along with the school inspector, the girl's class teacher, a school attendant and a guard were suspende...
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Threats to Malala's father-run school affect attendance
Most of the girls enrolled at the school run by Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai's father have stopped attending classes due to threats against the institution in the wake of an attempt on her life by the Taliban.
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Nitish Kumar's bicycles versus Lalu Prasad's buses for schoolgirls
One of Nitish Kumar's big success stories has been his scheme to deliver a bicycle to every schoolgirl from the fifth standard to the tenth standard. The scheme has helped check the dropout rate for girls. In fact, the number of girls attending school has gone up to 6.5 lakh in 2011 from 1.7 lakh in 2007.
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Dalit Girl Stopped From Attending School In Madhya Pradesh, 7 Arrested
Police have arrested seven persons after a minor Dalit girl was allegedly told not to attend school by a group of local residents on the ground that other girls, too, were not studying in a village here in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday.
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Manipur Girl Who Attended Class With Baby Sister In Lap Gets Admission In New School
A 10-year-old girl in Manipur, whose photo of attending school with her newborn sister in lap went viral last month, has secured admission in a boarding school in Imphal.
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"Bow To This Young Fighter": Manipur Girl Attends School With Baby Sister In Lap
Manipur's minister Biswajit Singh posted the photo of the girl which is now doing the rounds on Twitter. He has vowed to help the 10-year-old.
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67% Girls In Urban Slums Didn't Attend Online Classes During 1st Lockdown: Report
The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.
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Now Hijab Row In Puducherry School. State Gets Complaints Against Teacher
The Puducherry government's Directorate of School Education has asked the head of a government school in Ariyankuppam, Puducherry to enquire into the incident of alleged objection by a teacher to a Muslim girl wearing hijab while attending classes.
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Jharkhand: Birhor Girl First Student From Her Tribe To Pass Class 12 Board Exam
Jharkhand Class 12 Exams: Rashmi Birhor is the first-generation student of her family at Birhor Tola in west Bokaro, which falls under Ramgarh district, to attend school and clear the Class 12 board examination in the Second Division.
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Unable To Attend School, Students In Mumbai's Aarey Get Phones To Study
Last month NDTV highlighted the difficulties young boys and girls were facing, and the response was heart-warming, with actor Sonu Sood among those who pitched in and bought smartphones for students
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Unable To Join Online Classes, Kerala Schoolgirl Commits Suicide: Cops
A Class 10 student from a Scheduled Caste background committed suicide on Monday by setting herself on fire in Kerala's Malappuram district because she could not attend online school classes
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To Check Harassment, Bengal School Asks Boys, Girls to Attend Classes On Different Days
To check harassment, a government-run school in West Bengal's Malda district has issued a directive asking male and female students to attend school on different days of the week.
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30% Girls From India's Poorest Families Never Attended School: Research
Calling the current scenario of girls education in India as "precarious", national convenor of the RTE forum Ambarish Rai on Thursday said about 30 per cent of girls from the poorest families in the country have never set foot inside a classroom.
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Woman Attendant Must For PT Classes In Girls' Schools: West Bengal Government
The instruction comes days after the GD Birla school incident in the city where a four-year-old nursery student was allegedly sexually assaulted by two physical training (PT) teachers within the school premises.
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Haryana Teen Raped On Way Back From Independence Day Function
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped while returning home after attending Independence Day celebrations at her school in Kyorak village in Haryana's Kaithal, police said today.
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Five employees of MCD school suspended after seven-year-old allegedly raped
Five employees of a school, run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), have been suspended after a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped in the school premises on Thursday. The principal of the school in north-west Delhi's Mangolpuri area along with the school inspector, the girl's class teacher, a school attendant and a guard were suspende...
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Threats to Malala's father-run school affect attendance
Most of the girls enrolled at the school run by Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai's father have stopped attending classes due to threats against the institution in the wake of an attempt on her life by the Taliban.
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Nitish Kumar's bicycles versus Lalu Prasad's buses for schoolgirls
One of Nitish Kumar's big success stories has been his scheme to deliver a bicycle to every schoolgirl from the fifth standard to the tenth standard. The scheme has helped check the dropout rate for girls. In fact, the number of girls attending school has gone up to 6.5 lakh in 2011 from 1.7 lakh in 2007.
