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KOLKATA: Supreme Court on Thursday extended the deadline for completion of teachers’ recruitment process by state School Service Commission till Aug 31, 2026.The apex court had earlier directed SSC to complete the recruitment for the posts of assistant teachers for classes 9 to 12 by Dec 31. Appearing for SSC, Kalyan Banerjee argued that multiple litigations had slowed down the interview and...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday announced a 4% dearness allowance hike for government employees, teachers, pensioners and family pensioners.The chief minister had earlier announced that the government would fulfil the demand of the government employees and teachers to immediately announce dearness allowance hike as and when the Union government announced the rate revision for...

PARIS: France will deploy 7,000 soldiers after a Chechen-origin man fatally stabbed a teacher and severely wounded three other adults at a school in the northeastern town of Arras, the Elysee presidential palace said Saturday.The attack on Friday was denounced by President Emmanuel Macron as an act of "Islamist terror" in Arras, which has large Jewish and Muslim populations. The deployment of the...

CHENNAI: The Chennai city police on Thursday removed more than 5,000 people from the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) campus where they had been staging a protest for 10 days. The protesters, including teachers and their families, were detained in seven marriage halls. The teachers were agitating in three groups. Their demands included equal pay for equal work and making temporary teachers...

CHENNAI: Government middle schools functioning with more than 100 students will get five subject teachers, school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi announced in the Tamil Nadu assembly on Friday.Of the 6,600 government middle schools, around 900 schools have more than 100 students studying from classes VI to VIII. These schools don’t have subject teachers.Replying to the debate on demand for...