La Martiniere Schools

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  Lucknow’s La Martiniere College Turns 175

  The oldest educational institution in Lucknow, La Martiniere College, turned 175 on October 1, 2020. La Martiniere College (for boys) was founded in 1845.

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  Calcutta High Court Appoints Administrator On La Martiniere Schools' Board Of Governors

  The division bench said all decisions regarding school administration will be subject to approval of the administrator till disposal of the suit filed by four co-opted governors challenging their removal from the board.

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  Four Kolkata Schools Approach CISF For Foolproof Security Plan

  The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) specialises in security matters and is tasked with the upkeep of government infrastructure projects and facilities across the country.

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  Kolkata School Bans Pool Car For Nursery Kids

  A reputed school in the city has decided to ban unescorted pool cars of nursery students from next month, urging parents to personally drop and pick up their kids.

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  For Kolkata's Top Private Schools, A 'Lesson' From Mamata Banerjee

  Chief minister Mamata Banerjee turned school principal today and roundly rebuked her 'students' who happened to be heads of the top private schools of Kolkata -La Martiniere, St Xavier's, St James to name a few. And she laid down the law: Kolkata's private schools cannot charge whatever they like as fees. And no donations either.

• NDTV Exclusive: Hillary Clinton on FDI, Mamata, outsourcing, and Hafiz Saeed - Full transcript

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata to explore investment opportunities in the state. Before the meeting, Mrs Clinton was at a session at the La Martiniere School for Girls meeting with a cross-section of the people of Kolkata. The session was moderated by NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt.

• NDTV Exclusive: Hillary Clinton on FDI, Mamata, Hafiz Saeed and outsourcing

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata to explore investment opportunities in the state. Before the meeting, Mrs Clinton was at a session at the La Martiniere School for Girls meeting with a cross-section of the people of Kolkata. The session was moderated by NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt.

• La Martiniere Principal accused of abetment of Rouvan Rawla's suicide

  A Kolkata court has decided that the principal who caned Rouvanjit Rawla at his school in Kolkata stands accused of driving the 13-year-old to suicide. Three other teachers have also been charged with abetment of suicide. Sunirmal Chakraborty had been charged with deliberately injuring the child, who killed himself in February, four days after Chak...

• School apologizes for SMS-ing dead student's father for fees

  On Wednesday morning, Ajay Rawla received an SMS from La Martiniere School asking him to ensure that his bank account can cover Rs 6225 required in the next few days as school fees for his son, Rouvan.    Except that 12-year-old Rouvan killed himself in February, four days after being caned by the La Martiniere principal. The case fo...

• La Martiniere school questions NCPCR investigation

  Kolkata's premier La Martiniere Boys School, under the scanner for the suicide by one of its students in February, allegedly after corporal punishment, has questioned the authenticity of the enquiry team sent by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to probe the incident. After a board meeting today, the school said it ...

• Indian government bans corporal punishment in schools

  Spare the rod, or end up in jail. That's the latest warning to teachers who resort to corporal punishment. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued a new set of guidelines that bans physical punishment of students.First violation of the ban will invite up to one year in jail, or a fine of Rs 50,000 or both. For subsequent violations, ...

• 'My Teacher Pulled My Hair, Called Me a Dog'

  Siddharth David Saha told his parents he could not take it any more. He says he was so, badly humiliated for years that he needed psychiatric care. On Wednesday, Siddharth went back to school after medically advised rest. "No teacher was talking to me. I had put my head down but one teacher he pulled my hair, slapped me and said I was a dog, why di...

• Rouvan suicide case: Buddhadeb steps in

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya spoke on the floor of the state Assembly on Thursday about the steps taken by the state government in connection with the Rouvanjit Rawla case.Speaking in the Assembly, Buddhadeb said that a report has been submitted to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on the matter and added t...

• Rouvan suicide: New mystery over visitors to school

  A person claiming to represent the Human Resources Development Ministry on Thursday visited La Martinere for Boys in Kolkata in connection with the suicide of a student who was caned by the principal but HRD Minister Kapil Sibal denied having authorised anybody to probe the death."I visited the school on a fact-finding mission. I spoke to the princ...

• Martiniere alumni defend school, say Rouvan was 'sensitive'

  Many former students of Kolkata's prestigious La Martiniere for Boys School have come out in its defence after the controversy created by a student's suicide after being caned. "Our teachers are one of the most caring", says one Facebook post while another says that "caning was an acceptable form of punishment" and problem lay with the boy being "t...