The Human Resource Development Minister, Dr. M.M. Joshi, today said the literacy rate in India had gone up to 65 per cent, registering an increase of 13 per cent since

An echo of the outrage felt by the villagers of Rajasthan over the State Government's proposal to wind up Lok Jumbish and replace it with the World Bank's District Primary Education Project was heard

In the quiet surroundings of Devthala, a dusty vilalge near Dehradun in western Uttar Pradesh, about 50 women are closeted under a Banyan tree. They are making mango pickle and tomato sauce. In a

Despite its rich heritage of great writers, Ireland has one of the highest illiteracy rates among the world's developed countries. According to a United Nations study of 12 developed countries that

After decades of flirting with the moon, scientists hope to give it a great big smack this week. On Saturday, they intend to slam the Lunar Prospector craft into the lunar south pole with an force

For the people of this remote gram panchayat, the decentralisation drive is as much about conservation as it is about development. While the panchayat has waken up to ecological issues, thanks to the

Marine Biologists in Australia have uncovered shocking revelations about the sex life of the cuttlefish. Desperate to try their luck with any willing femanle, smaller male cuttlefish can disguish

India's National Literacy Mission (NLM) has won UNESCO's prestigious Noma Literacy Prize for 1999. An international jury which met in Paris to decide the winners of the UNESCO's four literacy awards

The Rajiv Gandhi Initiative for Elementary Education (RGIEE) organised a one-day workshop on "Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE0 in Bhopal city' on Wednesday. The workship which was

Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Wednesdy passed a bill by voice vote pertaining to the participation of farmers in the irrigation management in the State. The minister for Water Resources Department Dr