Last Updated: Monday, December 24, 2012, 21:12
NCP chief Sharad Pawar expressed dismay over "unimpressive" track record of Maharashtra government vis-a-vis the rate of women literacy in the state.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 22, 2012, 12:08
India’s already grim sex ratio scenario runs the risk of turning worse with more women than men preferring sons over daughters.
Last Updated: Monday, November 12, 2012, 16:21
Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister Bosiram Siram said that the state would soon attain total literacy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 00:11
President Pranab Mukherjee said women in Kerala continued to have a low profile in public life despite high literacy rate.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 23:53
Nine states including Bihar and UP will get enhanced central share under the SSA programme, with the Planning Commission approving a proposal to this effect.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 8, 2012, 17:34
Expressing concern over high rate of illiteracy in the country, Vice President Hamid Ansari said literacy programme must reach SC/ST and minorities.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 13:31
Bollywood celebrities like Alka Yagnik, Javed Akhtar and Lalit Pandit, along with Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, Monday launched a new literacy anthem as part of the campaign of promoting adult literacy in India.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 26, 2012, 21:15
India ranks 20th in financial literacy, four spots behind China, in the Asia Pacific Middle Eastern region, says a survey.
Last Updated: Sunday, July 8, 2012, 18:18
The country's largest private power producer, through its subsidiary Coastal Gujarat Project Ltd (CGPL), is developing the Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 19:24
Indian women may not be taking steps to protect themselves, but overall women, 34 percent, were more likely than men, 29 percent, of not to have any savings at all.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 17:44
The 2012 edition of Visa Global Financial Literacy Barometer survey released here Tuesday has ranked India at 23rd in a list of 28 countries on the financial literacy front, just ahead of Morocco, South Africa and Vietnam.
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