'A 22-year-old student from Tamil Nadu returning home collapsed and died after covering a distance of around 450 km from Wardha in Maharashtra on foot and using any available mode of transport in the past nearly ten days in view of the national lockdown, police said on Thursday. Balasubramani Logesh, hailing from Namakkal in western Tamil Nadu, along with 30 others had left Wardha, where he was attending a training course in agro-food field, by walk after the 21-day national lockdown was announced to check the spread of coronavirus...'
'Even as the government of India launched Swachh Vidyalaya scheme in 2014 to construct separate toilets for girls and boys in every school, 6790 schools in Andhra Pradesh still have dysfunctional toilets, Parliament was informed on Monday. Of the total schools with non-functional toilets, majority (4746) are government-run schools...'
'Stating that the play staged by a school in Bidar, Karnataka, against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act has “not caused any disharmony in the society”, a district and sessions court in Bidar has granted anticipatory bail to five management representatives of Shaheen Primary School in Bidar, whether the alleged seditious play was staged by children on January 21. The court cited lack of material for a prima facie case of sedition. In the anticipatory bail orders passed on March 3, the court held that “ingredients of Section 124A of IPC (sedition) are not prima facie made out’’...'
'Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia will not be part of an event next week when US First Lady Melania Trump is likely to watch a "happiness class" at a Delhi government school, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sources said. Party sources alleged that Mr Kejriwal's and Mr Sisodia's names were dropped from the event by the central government. According to the earlier plan, Mr Kejriwal and Mr Sisodia, who were re-elected this month for the third time in Delhi after a huge election victory, were scheduled to welcome Melania Trump at the south Delhi government school.
'Union minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday stoked a fresh controversy alleging that children who study in missionary schools lack "sanskaar" and end up in practices like "beef-eating" when they go abroad. Addressing a religious function at his Lok Sabha constituency in Begusarai of Bihar, the firebrand BJP leader also advocated, as an antidote, teaching of "shlokas" of Bhagvad Gita and the verses Hanuman Chalisa at private schools.
'Nearly 4.5 lakh contractual school teachers, also known as ‘nijyojit shikshak‘, have been on an indefinite strike in Bihar beginning from February 17. They have eight demands, including equal pay for equal work, retirement age of 65, implementation of old age pensions and being made state employees rather than contractual workers. The strike is occurring while the Bihar School Education Board’s matriculation exams have begun. The boycott has been called the Bihar Rajya Shikshak Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti (BRSSSS), an umbrella organisation of 26 unions...
'RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on February 16 said the cases of divorce are found more in “educated and affluent” families nowadays as education and affluence brings arrogance along, which results in families falling apart. Mr. Bhagwat also said that there is no alternative to a Hindu society in India. He was addressing RSS workers in Ahmedabad...'
'At an education institute that proclaims its mission to be “self-development and empowerment of girls through modern, scientific, and value-based education”, 68 undergraduate hostellers were paraded through the college into the restroom and forced to individually remove their undergarments to prove that they were not menstruating... According to the sect’s norms, menstruating females are barred from entering the temple and kitchen. They are even forbidden from touching other students.
'Ex-IPS officer and former Special Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdur Rahman who was in Aligarh to address a protest at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), was detained at the Lodha Police Station in Aligarh and asked to return to New Delhi. He was invited there by the AMU Students Co-ordination Committee to educate them on the new legislation... He told reporters that he was served a notice by the police that his presence at the AMU could result in a law and order problem.
'The Bidar police on Thursday arrested Anuja Minsa, mother of a girl student who played a role in a controversial play in a private school and allegedly delivered dialogues “insulting” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Fareeda Begum, the woman teacher who was involved in the staging of the play. As per school sources, the police came to the institution in the evening and interrogated the staff and children for a couple of hours before taking the women with them...'
