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07.06.2006 President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has suggested the creation of a World Knowledge Platform for the realisation of world-class products for commercial applications using the core competence of partner countries to meet the needs of many nations.

07.06.2006 The Free and Compulsory Education Bill, which would have forced the Centre to commit 3 per cent of the GDP or Rs 97,000 crore on elementary education, is likely to get a silent burial.

06.06.2006 The direction and pace of development in information and communication technology (ICT) have led practically all world economies to recognize the importance of ICT in catalyzing economic activities, in efficient governance and in empowerment of the society.

06.06.2006 Their fists raised in the air and clutching red flags, tens of thousands of Nepalis berated King Gyanendra as Maoist rebels held their first mass rally in the capital in over three years.

06.06.2006 The quake-affected people of this village are still gripped by the Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PSTD) and the worst affected are the women and the children of this area. The people have started their life again but the fear of earthquake like October 8 still haunts their memory.

05.06.2006 The Government is putting in place a mechanism to evaluate the effectiveness of school education and to standardise the grading system.Department of Secondary and Higher Education in the Union Human Resource Development Ministry formed an 11-member committee, under the Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training, to draw up the modalities for such an exercise.

02.06.2006 Teachers of non-government primary schools yesterday ended their hunger strike unto death following the assurance from Prime Minister's Political Secretary Harris Chowdhury of realising their one-point demand for job nationalisation within one week.

02.06.2006 Pakistan has become a nation of dropouts, with a massive 45 per cent of students quitting school mid-way, its Education Minister Gen (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi has said.

01.06.2006 Me rastin e 1 Qershorit, Ditës Kombetare të Fëmijëve në Shqipëri, shoqëria civile në Shqipëri organizon një sërë aktivitetesh ndërgjegjësuese dhe lobuese me dhe për fëmijët.

01.06.2006 Under its Project Jyoti programme, Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited on Wednesday announced a Rs. 2.2-crore grant to Hyderabad-based NGO Child And Police (CAP) to provide IT skills training to victims of human trafficking as well as vulnerable communities at risk of trafficking.

01.06.2006 The National Council of Education Research and Training has taken an innovative step to spread the message of peace among students by sensitising the teaching community towards this.

01.06.2006 Mothers of students will be involved in monitoring the implementation of India’s school mid-day meal scheme, under new guidelines formulated by the government to improve the quality of food served under the scheme. The women will also have financial control of the programmes, in order to check the misuse of funds.