CBSE textbook certifies 36-24-36 as best female body shape, sparks row

Excerpts from a class XII Physical Education textbook defining 36-24-36 as the "best body shape for females" have created an outrage on social media with critics demanding that the text be......

CBSE, CISCE Class XII results will be out by July 31: SC told

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) boards have told the Supreme Court that class XII board examination results would......

Now, self-defence training in school curriculum

Against the backdrop of incidents of violence and sexual assaults on girls, the Human Resource Development ministry has directed state governments to include training in self-defence as part of......

Amid uneasy calm, students appeared for exams in riot-hit Delhi

With parents keeping vigil outside examination centres in riot-hit northeast Delhi, Class 12 students appeared for their physics board exam despite being distressed over the communal violence that......

Education: Sibal's push for exam reforms, cheapest tablet PC

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's unsuccessful efforts to get key legislations on reforms in higher education passed, his push for examination reforms, rise in IIT tuition fees and launch of world's......

'Unrecognised schools hardly have any teaching'

Today's Budget may well have an allocation for the Right to Education Act that has activists up in arms, but Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal is convinced their fears are......

Finance Minister P Chidambaram's speech

Mr. Speaker, Sir It is my privilege to present the Budget for 2007-08. I. A MID-TERM REPORT CARD ON THE ECONOMY 2. In November 2006, the UPA Government crossed the midpoint of its term of office. A......

Chidambaram's Budget speech

Speech of P. Chidambaram Minister of Finance PART A Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2005-06. 2. Last year, while presenting the Budget, I had suggested that the vote in......