Monday 28 September '09
Eid had passed unnoticed at Shri Ram Colony. The residents stayed indoors, mourning their daughters.Friday 25 September '09
Foreign 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...Friday
11 September '09In the event of an emergency, Khalid Nazir, principal of a government-aided school near Fatehpuri Masjid in the Walled City, prays that the students can jump into the adjoining courtyard belonging to the mosque and run to safety.Friday
11 September '09Even after 93 students died in fire earlier in Tamil Nadu, many schools still don’t have fire safety measures, or two emergency exits...Monday
7 September '09With the NCR region opening up their nursery admissions at least a couple of months before the Delhi schools, parents in Delhi are eyeing these schools for their wards’ admission.Friday
4 September '09Although Neelam Puri tried to treat the Gandhi children — Rahul and Priyanka — like all others in her class, she was hesitant to assign them duties like fetching the register, or carrying books. Puri taught them chemistry.Wednesday
2 September '09No appointment of instructors qualified to teach in Urdu have been made for government-run Urdu-medium schools in the last 14 years...Monday
31 August '09Students enrolled in madrasas across the city will now be covered under the mid-day meal scheme, an incentive planned for them by the central government.Sunday
30 August '09Akram Nabi shooed away the children who crowded around him as they did every evening during Ramzan. They grinned and clapped and teased him as he ran after them...Sunday
23 August '09For 40 days of the chillah, the four Sri Lankan women will travel across India, crisscrossing villages, staying for a couple of days each at a Tablighi’s house and preaching to rural Muslim women the correct ways of Islam.Thursday
20 August '09While BJP offices saw a lot of heat and dust after senior leader Jaswant Singh was expelled on Wednesday for praising Mohammed Ali Jinnah in his book...Friday
14 August '09Stories of Partition, and of trains full of bodies pulling into railway stations, was Fr Dominic Emmanuel’s introduction to communal violence and its consequences.Sunday
9 August '09American economist, climate expert and development policy adviser Jeffrey Sachs was at the Express for an Idea Exchange. In this session moderated...Wednesday
5 August '09Toufique Kitchlew wrote a page of his memoirs and stopped. It has been eight months since he was forced to leave Amritsar...Sunday
2 August '09A couple of days after a city school suspended a student for a month after he was found wearing trousers way below the level of “decency”, principals are trying to fight fashion with fashion.Friday
24 July '09When he enrolled last May into the Mobile Learning Centre, parked on the side of the street, across the railway tracks near the Okhla Mandi...Thursday
23 July '09At the 200-year-old Fakirbara Masjid in Dariyapur, Imam Mohd Atiqullah raised his pitch to tell the congregation that the solar eclipse was a manifestation of the Almighty’s anger.....Tuesday
14 July '09His back to the Metro construction accident site in Zamrudpur, 45-year-old Kedar Singh spoke to his family in Bihar’s Champaran village on the phone on Monday morning.Sunday
12 July '09On the dark stairs, Daniya Alvi looked as if she was perched between two dreams. She could either run down the broken steps, break free, and do what she always...Sunday
12 July '09The rattle of the sewing machine, on which her mother Nafeesa Begum is stitching clothes for her, is broken only by the hushed tones in which Rushi Naaz speaks...Tuesday
7 July '09In order to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of trained primary teachers in the National Capital Territory, Delhi University will offer the four-year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B. El. Ed.) programme in at least four more colleges starting next session.
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