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The pass percentage of government school students of Class XII was 90.68 per cent, while 88.35 per cent students from private schools cleared the exams.

As we celebrate the spirit of childhood, here are some children who've made India proud.

'We have about Rs 4 lakh crore debt on a state budget of about Rs 1.5 lakh crore.' 'We are in a debt two-and-a-half times our annual budget,' says the banker who would have been Tamil Nadu's finance minister had the DMK won.

The first-time contestant from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a fourth-generation, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, P T Rajan, and his father, P T R Palaivel Rajan, both legends in Madurai.

Virender Kapoor is the former director of Symbiosis Institute of Management and knows a thing or two the making of a great leader. Here's what he has to tell you, our dear readers.

Ajit Balakrishnan writes about why learning the real values of human life is real education.

Six Indian-American high school juniors and 19 others, all named 'Leaders of Tomorrow', will discuss ways to heal the ills faced by society at a meeting later this month on the Bentley College campus at Waltham, Massachusetts. The students are winners of the 2008 Tomorrow 25, an international leadership competition for high school juniors organised by Bentley College, in cooperation with Time magazine.

The text of US President George W Bush's final State of the Union address delivered to Congress on Monday.

Why Facebook's 22-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spurned Yahoo and Viacom to go it alone.