Tuesday 10 November '09
After the Berlin wall was razed 20 years ago, Professor Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, the president of the Goethe-Institute, helped reunite important collections from East and West Germany...Saturday 7 November '09
In between her duties, Dr Sakshi Arora would snatch a few moments and call up schools to find out about admission dates for her daughter.Friday
6 November '09Nobody in Sangrail village in Saharanpur really knows the truth behind his death or if 46-year-old Narendar Singh Saini committed suicide since he saw no way out of his mounting debts....Wednesday
4 November '09More than 2,000 kg of exotic fish, berries and cheese, a couple of chefs who prepare the Nobel Banquet and opera singers will be flown into the country to celebrate the Sweden India Nobel Memorial week in the Capital.Monday
2 November '09He made the Sikh men wear burqas. Then, with the help of other Muslims in the neighbourhood, he escorted them out of Block 32 and out of Trilokpuri. Meanwhile, the city burned, and angry mobs raged through the blocks, pulling out Sikhs from their homes and killing them.Sunday
1 November '09Pete Best, drummer with The Beatles for two years, returns to the country of his birth this week. He looks back on an almost famous lifeFriday
30 October '09It’s a journey six women Nobel Peace laureates undertook three years ago when they formed the Nobel Women’s Initiative to fight for peace and justice in the world.Monday
26 October '09The only time Karan, a four-year-old, gets to play with building blocks and miniature buses is during school hours. At other times, he fumbles around with an old kitchen set his mother bought for his sister inside their one-room tenement in a slum.Sunday
25 October '09The girl didn’t falter one bit. She looked into the camera and announced to the whole world that she was lesbian. Pride tinged with hurt and anger shone in her dark eyes.Thursday
22 October '09Schools in the city will have to stick to a uniform schedule for nursery admissions process or face action, according to the Directorate of Education.Monday
19 October '09Anupama Girotra carefully coordinated her daughter’s outfit before an interaction session at two schools in Noida for nursery admissions. She dressed her in pink from head to toe. Even the ribbons in her hair were pink.Friday
16 October '09The Directorate of Education guidelines on nursery admissions for 2010-2011 are yet to come in, but a few have already kickstarted their admissions, hoping to cash in on parents’ anxiety.Friday
16 October '09Sayantan Sinha, a freelance public relations consultant, finally broke the news to his girlfriend. He couldn’t afford a gift for her this Diwali.Tuesday
13 October '09When the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) completed its 16th year on Monday, it had many success stories to tell.....Sunday
11 October '09Several students of Shri Ram School, Aravalli, Gurgaon, have contracted swine flu reportedly during a three-day school outstation trip, parents have alleged.Sunday
11 October '09Barshad Ali Khalifa Rifai emerged from a throng of fakirs chanting and dancing on the last day of the Urs of Amir Khusro, knelt down and put a dagger right through his shoulder.Sunday
11 October '09Children in rural India often walk miles to the nearest government school only to be disappointed by absent teachers and dismal infrastructure. Now, with corporates establishing or adopting schools that provide quality schooling, public-private partnership in education is an idea whose time has come. The Sunday Express visits some of these schools and witnesses the change they have brought....Tuesday
6 October '09The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has turned down Delhi government’s request to accommodate girls from the government school in Khajuri Khas...Tuesday
29 September '09The Section that requires setting up of School Management Committees under the Right to Education Act will not apply to minority institutions....Monday
28 September '09Eid had passed unnoticed at Shri Ram Colony. The residents stayed indoors, mourning their daughters.Friday
25 September '09Foreign dreams of Hardeep Kaur (name changed) turned sour two-and-a-half years ago when the 35-year-old professional married a UK-based corporate honcho she had found through a matrimonial website....Wednesday
23 September '09Schools that have been allotted land by the government at lower rates might now have to reserve almost 40 per cent of seats for students from poorer sections.Tuesday
22 September '09Syed Rashid Ali, a small-time vendor in the crowded alleys of Ballimaran in the Walled City, had only heard of the Vatican and seen the Pope on television all these years.Sunday
20 September '09It is a tradition as old as the 400-year-old Jama Masjid itself. When the Mughal empire was at its full glory, the emperor would gift a shawl to the Shahi Imam of the masjid on Eid...Tuesday
15 September '09Come admission season, and parents gear up to deal with a new set of ordeals every year. The latest one has cropped up in Noida...
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