Kolar School

The principal and a teacher of a residential school in Karnataka's Kolar have been arrested and four contractual staff sacked after visuals from the campus showed Dalit students cleaning a safety tank.

Nandini KR, the 26-year-old civil engineer who topped the Civil Services Examination, said the opportunity to join the premier civil service, Indian Administrative Service or IAS, "was a dream come true". But success for the government school teacher's daughter in Karnataka Kolar district, famous for its gold mines, came after three failures. This ...

Around 100 children have left a government school in Kolar -- allegedly to avoid eating the mid-day meal prepared by the school cook, a Dalit woman. Only 18 students are still enrolled at upper primary school in Kagganahalli village. The cook says only 5 children eats the food she makes.

The principal and a teacher of a residential school in Karnataka's Kolar have been arrested and four contractual staff sacked after visuals from the campus showed Dalit students cleaning a safety tank.

Nandini KR, the 26-year-old civil engineer who topped the Civil Services Examination, said the opportunity to join the premier civil service, Indian Administrative Service or IAS, "was a dream come true". But success for the government school teacher's daughter in Karnataka Kolar district, famous for its gold mines, came after three failures. This ...

Around 100 children have left a government school in Kolar -- allegedly to avoid eating the mid-day meal prepared by the school cook, a Dalit woman. Only 18 students are still enrolled at upper primary school in Kagganahalli village. The cook says only 5 children eats the food she makes.