New Delhi, Aug 29 : Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology awarded the fifth “Computer Literacy Excellence Awards for Schools” for the year
2007 to Amity International School, Gurgaon.

Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Jyotiraditya M Scindia was also present on the occasion.

The award includes a cash prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh along with a trophy and a certificate of excellence presented at a function to school principal Neetii C Kaoshik at Vigyan Bhavan on August 28.

Lahore, Aug 29: Sikh students in Lahore have demanded reservation at the Government College University (GCU) after two of them were denied admission because of a lack of minority seats at the institution.

The students said that they must be granted reservation on the lines of reservation for sportsmen, children of teachers, etc.

New Delhi, Aug 29: A university teachers' association is observing a strike today to protest delay in finalisation of report of University Grants Commission (UGC) pay revision committee.

Federation of Central Universities Teachers' Association (FEDCUTA) president Aditya Narayan Mishra said, "We observe the strike in central universities all over the country to demand that the report of the committee headed by Prof G K Chaddha be submitted soon."

Ludhiana, Aug. 27 : Thousands of primary schools are being provided education through Radio in Punjab, as part of the Sarva Sikhsa Abhiyan (education for all) by the Punjab government.

To make the initiative successful, radio sets have been provided to 13,000 primary schools in the State.

The objective is to make education accessible to those children who cannot attend a regular school.

London, Aug 26 : Struggle with words’ spellings? Well, don’t underestimate your language skills, for chances could be that you’re too clever.

That’s the conclusion of a new research, which suggests that spelling mistakes are sometimes made because people know too much.

Researchers at Collins Dictionaries found that the most commonly misspelt word was supersede - being wrong on one in ten occasions.

The problem arises because people use their knowledge of the words that have a phonetically similar ending, like intercede, precede or cede, from the Latin cedere - to yield. They then wrongly assume that supersede is spelt with a ''c''.

London, Aug 26: Kids as young as four years old should get sex education, Brit MPs have said.

A cross-party group of MPs is urging the Government to make lessons on sexual health and relationships mandatory for young children, the intention being to reduce Britain’s high rates of teenage pregnancy, abortion and sexually transmitted disease.