Government schools in NCR to stay shut due to cold

September 10th, 2009 PATNA - Skipping classes could prove costly for teachers in Bihar. Concerned over the poor attendance in schools, the state government has decided to introduce technology to monitor the presence of teachers in government schools, official sources said here Thursday.

September 1st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Orissa government has linked 40 schools in the state to the Edusat network with an aim to modernising the school education. "We have connected 40 schools on an experimental basis.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi government Monday announced creation of nearly 35,000 more seats in primary sections of Sarvodaya Vidyalayas in the national capital. "We have increased the intake of students from 40 to 50 in every class of the primary sections of the Sarvodaya schools of the Delhi government following good results of our schools," said Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after reinforcing job quota in faculty of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said the government is "committed" to reserving 25 percent seats in private schools for weaker sections. The minister said this during an interaction with officials of 30 private schools in the national capital, a ministry statement said.

July 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh government has directed schools to keep a complaint box in which students and parents can put in their grievances regarding corporal punishment, officials said Wednesday. Nearly 16,000 schools across the state are getting ready to comply with the order.

May 25th, 2009 PATNA - The headmasters of four primary schools in Bihar's Darbhanga district were suspended for irregularities in the mid-day meal scheme for schoolchildren, officials said Monday. The headmasters were suspended Saturday after an enquiry found them guilty of corruption.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely congratulated the students of government schools whose performance in the CBSE class 12th results, declared Friday, had improved compared to last year. The overall pass percentage of Delhi government schools has gone up by 1.44 percent.

May 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - New York authorities Friday closed three high schools following reports of a new outbreak of the swine flu, or influenza A(H1N1), weeks after the city had the largest cluster of flu cases in the US. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York State Governor David Patterson ordered the closure for one week of the three schools in the Queens borough when new cases were detected.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi government Thursday issued an advisory to all schools in the capital to close for summer break in next two days, owing to the ongoing heat wave conditions. While the government and state-aided schools were to close for the summer break Friday onwards, most of the private schools were not to close before mid-May.

April 28th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Mexico has ordered schools nationwide to shut down because of the ongoing swine flu epidemic, health secretary Jose Angel Cordoba said. The government Monday decided to extend an earlier order to close schools in some of the 32 states and the capital city to all schools nationwide.

February 1st, 2009 LONDON - The heaviest snowfall in 18 years blanketed much of Britain Monday, bringing life to a standstill as transport ground to a halt and schools and colleges were closed. Southern and eastern England were the worst hit as all bus services and much of the underground rail network were suspended in the British capital.

January 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the freezing cold unlikely to see a thaw in the next few days, the Delhi government has asked all state-run schools to extend the winter break by two more days for students till Class 8, while all municipal schools will reopen only Jan 12. Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh said Sunday that an advisory has been sent to all government schools to extend the vacation till Tuesday.

January 3rd, 2009 PATNA - At least 22 people have died in Bihar in the past two days as temperatures dipped drastically due to an intense cold wave sweeping the plains of north India, officials said Sunday. The dense fog in many parts of the state since Friday night was followed Saturday by a cloudy sky and chilly winds caused by western disturbances, officials in the weather department said.

January 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A thick blanket of fog once again descended on several parts of Uttar Pradesh Sunday, disrupting rail and air traffic. The mercury also plummeted in the region that has been witnessing an intense cold wave over the last week, claiming over 50 lives.

January 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - Schools have been closed for six days till Jan 8 due to the continuing cold wave in Jharkand. Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi Rajiv Arun Ekka made the announcement Friday night to close down the schools till Jan 8 after many schools opened Friday after the winter vacations.