October 12, 2015 02:38 IST
As two people helped him stand from his sofa to receive the award, Sharma said, “I am feeling lucky to be honoured at an age of 92 for my contribution to the city beautiful.”
Mon, Oct 12, 2015October 10, 2015 10:02 IST
Around 60 pc class IX students fail to score above 33 per cent in each of 5 subjects, 70 per cent students of class XI score below average.
Sat, Oct 10, 2015October 09, 2015 06:03 IST
CBSE project aims to motivate students to learn concepts of finance at an early age
Fri, Oct 09, 2015October 05, 2015 08:04 IST
The government schools in Chandigarh have faired poorly in the surveys and assessments undertaken by different institutions.
Mon, Oct 05, 2015October 05, 2015 07:39 IST
Established in the 90s, the marble market was initially situated in Sector 51 with around 20-25 shops.
Mon, Oct 05, 2015October 05, 2015 03:37 IST
The presentation was on the management plan of the Chandigarh dossier which was prepared seven years ago.
Mon, Oct 05, 2015October 04, 2015 04:16 IST
‘Make board exam compulsory at least for class VIII’.
Sun, Oct 04, 2015October 02, 2015 04:32 IST
Deputy Director (School Education) Chanchal Singh said, “Those committees were made only for a year under the supervision of the DPI concerned and then the system changed.”
Fri, Oct 02, 2015October 01, 2015 08:14 IST
The topic for the essay will be ‘Chandigarh of my dreams’. The competition is open to all city residents, and essays can be in English, Hindi or Punjabi.
Thu, Oct 01, 2015October 01, 2015 04:08 IST
One of the residents said, “We appreciate the fact that the UT Administration has invited us all to share our problems but then they need to actually start from the grassroots level because there are many problems."
Thu, Oct 01, 2015September 29, 2015 09:03 IST
NCERT recently uploaded a compilation of learners’ assessment done for the classes I-VIII of government schools in the academic year 2014-15.
Fri, Dec 25, 2015September 28, 2015 01:37 IST
The advent of technology has affected the reading habit of people. It has also hit libraries in the Tricity. But there are people who still mark their presence at libraries to study in peace.
Mon, Sep 28, 2015September 28, 2015 01:28 IST
CBSE has invited online feedback from the students of classes VI-XII to take their responses.
Mon, Sep 28, 2015September 25, 2015 04:49 IST
At least 53 residents from Chandigarh and its periphery areas have joined the Haj pilgrimage this year and their return flight is scheduled for the first week of October.
Fri, Sep 25, 2015September 25, 2015 04:02 IST
The Tourism Department will soon be starting soft skills training programmes for all the autorickshaw drivers.
Fri, Sep 25, 2015September 24, 2015 04:08 IST
Other suggestions included provision of security guards outside the government schools as well during the morning and the afternoon hours to prevent accidents.
Thu, Sep 24, 2015September 23, 2015 04:58 IST
Prince Dhawan said that he would allot numbers to encroachers in each sector such that residents could directly complain to the SDM office or the concerned police station.
Wed, Sep 23, 2015September 23, 2015 03:44 IST
As per the tourist arrival statistics collected by the UT Tourism Department, the city has witnessed only 18,474 foreign tourists from January to July this year.
Wed, Sep 23, 2015September 22, 2015 03:48 IST
Apart from submitting ideas and suggestions in written format, the residents are also posting them on the official Facebook page of the UT administration, Smart Chandigarh, and on online portal - mygov.in
Tue, Sep 22, 2015September 22, 2015 03:24 IST
The admission process in these schools was completed by March, while the schools gave the required information in regard to the EWS seats by the end of May.
Tue, Sep 22, 2015September 22, 2015 03:08 IST
These are the findings of the state-level learning achievement survey conducted in government schools by a Chandigarh- based college recently.
Tue, Sep 22, 2015September 21, 2015 03:42 IST
The chairperson of Child Welfare Committee , Neil Roberts, talks about drug abuse among children and the steps required to curb the menace.
Mon, Sep 21, 2015September 20, 2015 04:17 IST
The proposals that are yet to take off include introducing multimedia digital content for the NCERT textbooks of Classes I-X along with projector screens in classrooms
Sun, Sep 20, 2015September 18, 2015 09:04 IST
The nodal officer of the smart city project, Danish Ashraf, who also administers the city specific online polling being conducted at the national website mygov.in.
Fri, Sep 18, 2015September 17, 2015 05:55 IST
Agencies such as Yes Infobiz, C-Tec, VR Systems, Global Voice and Competent School, which were associated with the programme till 2013, were the bidders this time.
Thu, Sep 17, 2015