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A handful of youths rendered disabled by polio joined college this year. They are also professional dancers with their wheelchairs and crutches doubling as stage props. Gulshan Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Ajay Kumar and Manish Kumar were all drawn out of their homes, often against the wishes of their parents, trained as dancers for years by an NGO and placed in schools. Belonging to economically weak families, these kids, once considered liabilities, are now supporting their families.

Meenal Chopra, 15, was in a “special needs” school till Class IX. She now likes it at the Rohini private school she attends but would have felt more comfortable if her teachers were better equipped to handle visually-impaired kids like her. “In my previous school, there were trained teachers who looked after us. But the environment didn’t allow much freedom. I am more independent here. Though the teachers are helpful, they aren’t fully trained to deal with our needs,” she says. Chopra’s admission into a mainstream school was facilitated by the All India Confederation of the Blind.

While most were made by students to enquire about their exam centres or missing hall tickets, three sought help as they were delayed and were worried about reaching their centres on time.

The board authorities have arranged for him to write his paper on Thursday from the centre nearest to his hospital.

Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Richard Ivey School of Business, the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

The government's ambitious plan of holding a single national examination for admission to undergraduate engineering...

As if to rub it in, the college announced the suspension on the Facebook 'walls' of the girls!

Kiran Karnik has slammed the Indian education system for failing to help students.

Extending benefits to its employees, the Centre has decided to remove the minimum age bar of five years for claiming educational allowance and hostel subsidy for their children.

Mahindra, RG Group, Ingersoll Rand and banks like Yes Bank, Reserve Bank of India, HDFC apart from others recruited students from the country's top B- school.

As they came out of the examination halls, students seemed happy with the easy paper.

Memory-enhancing pills, tonics and therapies have always been in demand ahead of the board exams.

Experts advise students to use effective study techniques in the run-up to the exam.

Most students found it easy but lengthy; zero copying incidents in district.

American School of Bombay is lending its expertise to teachers of less privileged students on making their classes more creative and fun.