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The Bihar government has admitted that it appointed nearly 1.3 lakh contract teachers without verifying their educational and professional degrees. The Human Resources Department has now asked all the 38 districts to submit within a month degrees of over 30,000 teachers for verification. The state had ordered an internal inquiry... 

Teenager Amos Yee Pang Sang could have faced a sentence in reformative training but was instead given a backdated jail term for convicted charges of obscene imagery and offending remarks towards Christians. (Photo: AFP News/Roslan Rahman) John (not his real name) entered Reformative Training Centre (RTC) in 1997 when he was... 

India's Supreme Court has ordered a federal investigation into a multimillion-dollar job-recruitment scam and more than 30 deaths to which it has been linked. The country's highest court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the inquiry by police in central Madhya Pradesh state into what's known as the Vyapam...