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NHRC notice to UP govt on child marriage, low female literacy

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued notices to Uttar Pradesh government and Maharajganj d...

Tamil Nadu with 72 mn records 80% literacy

Tamil Nadu recorded a population of 72,147,030, growing by 97.4 lakh persons in the last decade, of ...

Himachal literacy rate up 6.3 percent in decade: Census

The literacy rate in Himachal Pradesh, with a population of over 68 lakh, has registered an increase...

Tripura registers improvement in literacy rate

Literacy rate in Tripura has risen to 87.22 percent from the previous 73.3 percent, ranking the stat...

`Kids need to be computer literate to utilise tech`

Opportunities thrown up by technology can be harnessed only if the children in the country are made ...

Female literacy rate leapfrogs to 53% in Bihar: Nitish Kumar

Literacy among women in Bihar has leapfrogged to over 53 per cent from 33 per cent 12 years ago due ...

Bihar clocks 29% hike in commercial tax collection: Modi

In another first in the country, tax collection in Bihar in the 2012-13 fiscal jumped to 29 percent,...

Bihar literacy growth rate much ahead of national average

Educational programmes in Bihar have resulted in pushing literacy growth rate in the state to 16.82 ...

Tripura to be declared fully literate

India`s northeastern state of Tripura will be declared fully literate in September this year, state ...

Brand ambassador of Kerala`s literacy drive no more

Cholakkodan Aysha, hailed as the brand ambassador of Kerala`s universal literacy mission, passed awa...

Kerala achieves lowest school dropout rate in India

Kerala, which stands out from the rest of India with 94 percent literacy rate, has achieved another ...

Raju writes to Chidambaram, terms cut in funds 'unjustified'

The Finance Ministry had last month imposed around seven percent cut in the Rs 45,000 crore school e...

Around 7% cut in school education, literacy budget

The government has imposed around seven per cent cut in the Rs 45,000 crore school education and lit...

Sharad Pawar targets Maha govt over women literacy rate

NCP chief Sharad Pawar expressed dismay over "unimpressive" track record of Maharashtra go...

Women too turn against the girl child

India’s already grim sex ratio scenario runs the risk of turning worse with more women than men pref...

Arunachal heading towards total literacy: Siram

Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister Bosiram Siram said that the state would soon attain total liter...

President Pranab asks women to be more active in public life

President Pranab Mukherjee said women in Kerala continued to have a low profile in public life despi...

States with low literacy level to get enhanced central share

Nine states including Bihar and UP will get enhanced central share under the SSA programme, with the...

Literacy prog must reach SC/ST, minorities: Ansari

Expressing concern over high rate of illiteracy in the country, Vice President Hamid Ansari said lit...

Alka Yagnik, Javed Akhtar unveil literacy anthem

Bollywood celebrities like Alka Yagnik, Javed Akhtar and Lalit Pandit, along with Human Resource Dev...

India lags behind China in fin literacy; ranks 20th in APAC

India ranks 20th in financial literacy, four spots behind China, in the Asia Pacific Middle Eastern ...

Tata Power proj imparts computer ed to 900 students in Mundra

The country's largest private power producer, through its subsidiary Coastal Gujarat Project Ltd (CG...

India lags in financial literacy: Research

Indian women may not be taking steps to protect themselves, but overall women, 34 percent, were more...

Indians among least financially literate people: Survey

The 2012 edition of Visa Global Financial Literacy Barometer survey released here Tuesday has ranked...

Indians among least financially literate people: Survey

The 2012 edition of Visa Global Financial Literacy Barometer survey released here Tuesday has ranked...

J&K records 15% increase in literacy rate

J&K has recorded about 15 per cent increase in the literacy rate during the past five years, Edu...

10.5L Class IX, X students to teach the illiterate

In a bid to eradicate illiteracy in Bihar, the state government has decided to rope in 10.5 lakh c...

Literacy level still a concern

India achieved its highest literacy level at about 74 per cent on last count.

Literacy rate will touch 80% by 2015: Sibal

The government expressed hope that the country`s literacy rate will touch 80 per cent by 2015.

`IT revolution incomplete sans computer literacy`

The IT revolution in India will be complete only when every citizen is able to use computers, Sachin...

Low internet literacy even in urban India: Report

Sachin Pilot has promised that a `twenty-first century` infrastructure would be set up for high spe...

Low internet literacy even in urban India: Report

`Only about 25 per cent graduates in India have the skills that deem them fit to work for multinatio...

Low internet literacy even in urban India: Report

Union Minister of State for Information Technology Sachin Pilot has promised that a "21st cen...

In two decades, Bihar could have full literacy

Bihar`s literacy rate may be the lowest in the country at 63.8 percent, but it could achieve total l...

Towards a more enlightened tomorrow

Barring 2 districts, rest all 638 districts in India have improved their literacy record.

Female literacy on the rise

More and more females in India are successfully seeking literacy.

`Bihar to be among top five states in literacy in 2021`

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday said he would ensure that Bihar figured in the list of to...

National Literacy Mission launched at Tihar jail

Tihar Prisons authorities launched the National Literacy Mission Programme of the Ministry of Human ...

J&K literacy rate soars by 13% in last decade

Jammu and Kashmir`s literacy rate has increased by 13 percent in the last decade even as the state...

Census rpt: Drastic fall in population growth

India`s population stands at 1.21 bn and Child Sex Ratio is 914 female per 1,000 male.

Kids who sms ‘have better literacy skills’

Children who are fluent at text messaging have better literacy skills.

Orissa school girls to get free cycles

Orissa on Tuesday decided to distribute free bicycles to Class 10 girl students with an aim to impro...

Mizoram jump-starts literacy campaign

With an eye on making Mizoram totally literate by 2011, the Mizoram government has launched the Rapi...

Centre aims at increasing literacy by 80%

Centre is making efforts to increase literacy in the country by 80 per cent by 2015 and enrolment in...

K`taka looking at achieving 100 per cent literacy by 2015: CM

Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said Karnataka was looking at achieving 100 per cent literacy by 20...

Prog to scale up literacy rate to 80% by 2012

To boost literacy rate in Karnataka from the present 66.64 per cent to 80 per cent by 2012, the st...

Indians score over Americans in financial literacy: Study

Indians can take prudent financial decisions and avert eco crisis better than Americans.

Sibal seeks PSEs’ help in literacy mission implementation

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday asked the Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) to formulate an ac...

IPL supports ‘room to read’ to promote literacy in India

The IPL has tied-up with Room to Read, a global organization which is dedicated towards promoting an...

Uttarakhand records nearly 100% student enrollment

Uttarakhand has achieved nearly 100 percent enrollment of students in schools this year and the drop...

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