Education in India

Education: Mini-revolution? – NDTV
R N Poddar School principal Avnita Bir; Hindu College principal Dr Kavita Sharma; former CBSE chairman Ashok Kumar Ganguly and Dr Abdul Mabood, director of NGO Snehi, debate HRD Minister’s new educational agenda with NDTV Managing Editor Sreenivasan Jain.

Education in India – BBC
Sanjeev visits some impressive young students taking time out of their school day to help teach street children the same syllabus. That’s recycled learning, Indian style, and it makes a big impression on our presenter in this BBC Worldwide video clip.

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal tells NDTV’s Barkha Dutt in an exclusive interview that the board exams are hardly the best way to measure talent. He says that a common entrance exam should determine college admissions.

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. – Edna Parker, who became the world’s oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.
UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker’s great-nephew notified him that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert Young, a senior consultant for gerontology [...]

Google adds video and voice chat to Gmail
Google Inc added a voice and video chat feature to its Gmail email service on Tuesday, launching a free Web-based service that competes with the likes of eBay’s Skype.
Gmail and Google App subscribers can now choose to speak with friends on a video screen and simultaneously instant message [...]