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Centre asked to ensure funds forr SSK, MSK

September 5, 2017 Loknath Das

Kolkata, Sep 5 (PTI) West Bengal Panchayat and Rural Development minister Subrata Mukherjee today said the state government has written to the Centre for ensuring funds for the state-run Shishu Shiksha Kendra (SSK) and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendra (MSK) so that vacancies of teachers can be filled up. “As part of our initiative to fill up the vacancies in SSKs and MSKs all over the state, we have written to the Centre to ensure proper fund flow. We will also impart distance learning training to all teachers in MSK, SSK centres,”…

Home Secretary asked to expedite civil judge recruitment process

June 15, 2017 Loknath Das

The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday directed the State Home Secretary to expedite the process of amending the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service (Cadre and Recruitment) Rules, 2007, and the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, as requested by the Registrar General of the High Court for filling up vacancies in lower judiciary in the State. A Division Bench of Justices A. Selvam and N. Authinathan issued the interim direction on a public interest litigation filed by advocate R. Silambaraj seeking a direction to the State government,…

Pupils at London school asked to clean their classroom as cuts bite

May 28, 2017 Loknath Das

A cash-strapped primary school is asking pupils to vacuum classrooms at the end of the day because it cannot afford to replace the cleaner, while the headteacher’s husband is doing the plumbing for free. In a stark example of how the government’s funding cuts are hitting schools across the country, Furzedown primary school, in the London borough of Wandsworth, has been forced to make cutbacks to try to balance the books. It is one of thousands of schools struggling to make ends meet during the funding crisis. Thousands of parents,…

MP: Colleges asked to link Aadhaar with scholarship account

October 25, 2016 saheli

Department of higher education (DHE) in Madhya Pradesh has asked universities and colleges across the state to link Aadhaar numbers of students with their scholarship accounts. DHE wrote to the institutes after the Ministry of human resource development forwarded the letter to the department. Sources say the HRD ministry had instructed the UGC that from 2016-17 financial year, Aadhaar has been made mandatory for direct disbursement of all government subsidies, scholarships and fellowships to beneficiaries’ accounts. DHE additional director RS Verma said, “We had implemented this since 2013-14 to avoid…

How Robin Wright asked for (and got) the same Pay as Kevin Spacey on ‘residence of playing cards’

May 19, 2016 Anupam

For the primary 3 seasons of Netflix’s hit political mystery/soap opera residence of playing cards, Kevin Spacey earned more than Robin Wright – about $eighty,000 greater according to episode, in keeping with The Huffington post. whilst the show commenced, that would have made experience. Spacey, in the end, commenced off as an Oscar winner, while Wright were largely out of the spotlight for numerous years. Then, however, the Emmy nominations started rolling in, for Wright in addition to Spacey. What would Claire Underwood do? 365px-Robin_Wright_2009 (photograph credit: by way of…