Will CCTV prevent cheating in exams?

'The copying mafia is very powerful. We need to use technology to fight them.' The Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education has decided to install surveillance cameras at all......

'I took a vow to eradicate cheating from examinations'

An Indian Administrative Service officer for 32 years, he chose to take the ‘cheating mafia’ head on. “If you do not let me cheat in the examination, you will be dead.” When......

Bihar exam row: FIR against toppers

A special investigation team visited the Bihar School Examination Board and quizzed its chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad.The team seized computers and hard disk from the BSEB office. An FIR has been......

Indian American aims for US school board re-election

Balaji R Venkatraman, who is seeking re-election to the Evergreen Elementary School District board in San Jose, California, says school election is not about politics, it's about schoolchildren.......

Transforming the skills environment in India

There is a constant refrain in the Indian IT and BPO sectors that less than 20 per cent of the 300,000 and more engineers who graduate each year are employable in the software industry without huge......

Pranab Mukherjee's Budget Speech

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2009-10 on July 6. Following is the BudgetSpeechof Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee: Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for......

How Keki Gharda stunned the MNC giants

Once upon a time he used to bite pens. Now he fidgets with a knife in a cramped office lined up to the ceiling with books that range from Game Theory to the history of the Roman Empire to polymer......

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......