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All children 6 to 14 years old have the right to free and quality education under the recently passed Right to Education Act.

The RTE Act specifies minimum norms in government schools. It requires all private schools to reserve 25% of seats for children from poor families (to be reimbursed by the state as part of the public-private partnership plan).

The Act also provides that no child shall be held back, expelled, or required to pass a board examination until the completion of elementary education. There is also a provision for special training of school drop-outs to bring them up to par with students of the same age.

The RTE Act is the first legislation in the world that puts the responsibility of ensuring enrolment, attendance and completion on the Government.

The Right to Education of persons with disabilities until 18 years of age has also been made a fundamental right. A number of other provisions regarding improvement of school infrastructure, teacher-student ratio and faculty are made in the Act.

To make the Right to Education Act successful, it is important that each one of us knows about it so that every child who is not in school can be sent back for free and quality education.

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We Are Great Indians......

Indians are poor but India is not a poor country-Says Swiss Bank director.

Swiss Bank director says that 280Lac crore of Indian money is deposited in Swiss banks which can be used for taxless budget for 30yrs. Can give 60 crore jobs to all Indians. All INDIA with 4 lane roads. Forever free p...ower supply social projects. Every citizen can get monthly 2000 for 60 yrs. Think how our money is Blocked by rich politicians. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wrestler Sanjay wins 4th gold for India

New Delhi

, Oct 5: The second day of Commonwealth Games 2010 seemed to come up with a bucket of gold medals. Started with shooting, now its wrestling, which bagged the second gold.

Sanjay defeated South Africa's

Richard Brian Addinall in the 74 kg Greco-Roman event.

This is the fourth gold medal for India. Another wrestler, Ravinder Kumar won gold medal in 60 kg Greco-Roman event on the same day.

Other gold medals were won by shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, and women's pair of Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari on Oct 5.
 

Indian wrestler Ravinder bags gold in CWG 2010

New Delhi

, Oct 5: After shooting, now its wrestling that brought the third gold medal to India

on the very second day of Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, Oct 5.

Buzz up!

India

wrestler, Ravinder Kumar grabbed a gold medal in the Greco-Roman 60kg event.

Ravinder defeated Terence Christopher Bosson of England by 2-0, 5-0.

This is the third gold for India on the second day of the Commonwealth Games, as other two gold medals were won by shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, and women's pair of Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari.

CWG: Shooters Tejaswini, Lajjakumari grab silver

New Delhi, Oct 5: Shooters continue to make India proud on the Day 2 of the Delhi Commonwealth Games as Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari Gauswami grabbed the silver medal in the 50m rifle event.

The duo's victory in the women'd 50m air rifle 3 position has added to trove of medals India won on Tuesday, Oct 5 in the shooting arena.

The host country's gold account began when Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang pocketed gold in 10m air rifle pair shooting, besides setting a new Commonwealth Games record by scoring 1193 points.

India gets first gold; Bindra, Gagan win in air rifle event

India have opened their gold account on the second day of the Commonwealth games today. Shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang have won in the 10m air rifle event in New Delhi. World champion Tejeswani Sawant had won two gold medals in air rifle in the previous edition in Melbourne, and Lajja Goswami will take a shot at glory in the 50m 3 position event later in the day.

In between, Deepak Sharma and Omkar Singh will try their luck in 50m free pistol event, while Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed will compete in 25m pitol for women.

Narang is a world record holder - he scored 600 out of 600 during his unparalleled record-winning feat - in air rifle event.

Indian shooting has been on the ascendancy ever since the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, where the team won 24 medals, before bettering the mark four years later in Melbourne, winning a record 27 medals.

The bunch, that overflows with talent, is raring to do one better this time around, but, according to Thomas, it takes years and years of hard work to improve.

"We know that India's best chance of winning maximum number of medals is shooting but the rising expectations are bound to put a lot of pressure on our shooters.

"We won 24 medals in Manchester but it took us four years to make it 27 and it will take a Herculean effort to make it 28 this time," Thomas, who has been at the helm of Indian shooting for the past 17 years, said.

Thomas might be a bit skeptical going into the competition, but he certainly is not low on confidence.

With the likes of Bindra, world champions Sawant and Manavjit Singh, world record holder in double-trap Ronjan Sodhi and the man who has won the maximum number of World Cup medals for the country, Narang, in the line-up, Thomas has, at his disposal, a top-fligt team.

"From five medals - three gold and two silver - in 1994 to 24 in Manchester and then 27 in Melbourne, it's a huge achievement. It's difficult when you look at those numbers but it should not be a big problem, winning more medals than the previous two editions. I'm confident that our shooters will rise to the occasion in front of home crowd," the shooting coach said.

Commonwealth Games: India wins silver, bronze in weightlifting

Women lifters Soniya Chanu and Sandhya Rani Devi provided the Commonwealth Games hosts their first two medals on the first day of competitions on Monday while their men’s freestyle quartet made history by reaching the final in swimming.

Chanu, favourite for the 48 kg gold medal, settled for silver by clearing 167 kg which was eight kg below what surprise winner Augustina Nwaokolo of Nigeria lifted to win the contest with a new Games record to boot.

Chanu and Nwaokolo were tied with the same clearance of 94 kg in the snatch competition but the latter, who weighed marginally less than the Indian woman, settled the issue in the clean and jerk category.

Sandhya Rani took the bronze with a total clearance of 165 kg.

In the pool, the men’s 4x400m freestyle relay quartet of Virdhawal Khade, Anshul Kothari, Arjun Jayaprakash and Aaron D’Souza finished sixth in the morning heats to make the evening final where they finished in the same position clocking 3 mins, 27.14 secs.

It’s the first time that in swimming the country had been represented in the final in the Commonwealth Games.

“This is really fantastic. We have made history by reaching the final for the first time in Commonwealth Games competition,” team coach Pradeep Kumar said.

Two other Indian swimmers — Badrinath Melkote (men’s 50m backstroke) and Shubha Chittaranjan (women’s 50m butterfly) — qualified for the semi finals by ending up 14th and 16th in the heats. Both were, however, eliminated in the evening semi finals.

But all other swimmers sunk without making a splash.

Surbahi Tipre and Arti Ghorpade finished a disappointing 22nd and 24th in women’s 200m freestyle.

In men’s 400m freestyle heats, Mandar Divase and Ullalmath Gangan finished distant 17th and 18th respectively.

 Other Indians to bow out on day one included Beijing Olympian Rehan Poncha and Tarun Tokas (men’s 200m butterfly); Priyanka Priyadarshini, Poorva Shetye and Mankiran Kaur (women’s 50m breaststroke) and Pooja Alva (women’s 200m IM).

India also made a winning start in tennis and table tennis but suffered a major blow in another racquet sport, squash, when their no. one woman player Dipika Pallikal pulled out following a bout of mild fever.

Three other men players — Sourav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Sandhu and Siddharth Suchde progressed to the round of 32.

Indian women, seeded second in the table tennis team event, started their campaign on a resounding note by blanking Sri Lanka 3-0 in Group D at the Yamuna Sports complex.

Mouma Das, Shamini Kumareshan and reigning national champion Poulomi Ghatak won their matches without dropping a game. The Indian eves have to play against New Zealand and Ghana in the group.

In tennis, Rohan Bopanna outclassed Uganda’s Robert Buyanza in straight sets.

Delhi, the day before Commonwealth Games

The wait is finally over. The 19th Commonwealth Games are now just one day away. Athletes from around the world will participate in India's biggest sporting extravaganza since the 1982 Asian Games.

There's been so much that's been wrong in the run up to the Games. Now, finally, Delhi is all set.

NDTV participated in the Queen's Baton Relay just short of its final stop of the day, the Commonwealth Games Village.

Before that it made a stop at Rajghat quite aptly on Gandhi Jayanti. Organising Committee deputy director general, SPS Dhillon carried the baton to the Games Village where it was handed over to the Village's mayor Dalbir Singh.

"It is a great moment for us. We are hosting the Commonwealth Games and we are very proud of that. We have provided world class facilities to the athletes and we are ready for the grand opening of the event tomorrow," said mayor of the village, Dalbir Singh.

Meanwhile the streets of Delhi have been dressed up, and the city is ready for visitors.

In fact, the big visitors have started arriving. International Olympic Committee chief Jaques Rogge arrived in the Capital for the opening ceremony early on Saturday morning.

Princes Charles and his wife Camilla Parker are in town as well.

"Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman of the Organising Committee, received the royal couple here," a press release from the organisers said.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had asked the Prince to represent her at the opening of the Commonwealth Games after deciding to give a miss to the ceremony.

"We are well prepared and we will have great Games," said Lalit Bhanot, Secretary General, Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.

As the sun sets on Delhi on the last day of the countdown, it's time to forget the controversies and blame games. For the next 11 days, all of Delhi is going to come out and play.

Ayodhya land to be divided into 3 parts

In a much-awaited verdict, the Allahabad High Court today ruled that the 2.77 acre disputed land in Ayodhya be divided into three parts among Hindus and Muslims and held that the place where the makeshift temple of Lord Rama currently exists belongs to Hindus.

The majority 2-1 verdict of the Lucknow bench of the court, said to be running into nearly 8,000 pages, comes after nearly 60 years of tortuous litigation over who holds the title to the disputed site. Still, the order may not be the last word and the issue may land up in the Supreme Court.

As an anxious nation awaited the court verdict in the highly-sensitive issue with lakhs of security personnel deployed in Uttar Pradesh and other sensitive places across the country, the order of Justices S U Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and D V Sharma became public just before 4.30 PM amid high drama.

The judges wrote three separate judgements but the majority verdict held that the area covered by the central dome of the three-domed structure where the idol of Lord Rama is presently situated belongs to Hindus.

"The disputed site is (indeed) the birthplace of Lord Ram," said the brief two-page official synopsis of the judgement. It ruled that the place of Ram's birth must also be construed as a juristic person and a deity.

"It is personified as the spirit of divine worshipped as birthplace of Lord Rama as a child," the majority ruling said.

Justices Khan and Agarwal said the entire disputed land should be divided into three equal parts, each to be given to Sunni Waqf Board, Nirmohi Akhara and the parties representing 'Ram Lalla Virajman' (seated Baby Ram).

Perhaps for the first in judicial history, a verdict was delivered in high security with media and lawyers and parties unrelated to the case kept out of the court premises.

Press briefings were arranged in the District Collectorate opposite the court premises and summary of the judgements immediately uploaded on the website.

The majority judges declared maintenance of status quo at the disputed land for three months.

All the three judges of the High Court were unanimous on the ownership of the place where the makeshift temple exists. However, Justice Sharma held that the entire disputed area belonged to Hindus.

"It is further declared that the portion below the central dome where at present the idol is kept in makeshift temple will be allotted to Hindus in final decree," Justice Khan said.

"It is declared that the area covered by the central dome of the three domed structure, i.e., the disputed structure being the deity of Bhagwan Ram Janamsthan and place of birth of Lord Rama as per faith and belief of the Hindus, belong to plaintiffs (filed on behalf of Lord Ram) and shall not be obstructed or interfered in any manner by the defendants," Justice Agarwal said.

Both Justices Khan and Agarwal were also of the view that the rest of the area be shared by Hindus, Muslims and Nirmohi Akhara.

"The area within the inner courtyard (where disputed structure stood) denoted by letters B C D L K J H G in Appendix 7 (excluding (i) above) belong to members of both the communities, i.e., Hindus (here plaintiffs, Suit-5) and Muslims since it was being used by both since decades and centuries," Justice Agarwal said adding that a portion of outer courtyard in declared in the favour of Nirmohi Akhara.