La Martiniere Schools

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  Lucknow’s La Martiniere College Turns 175

  The oldest educational institution in Lucknow, La Martiniere College, turned 175 on October 1, 2020. La Martiniere College (for boys) was founded in 1845.

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  Calcutta High Court Appoints Administrator On La Martiniere Schools' Board Of Governors

  The division bench said all decisions regarding school administration will be subject to approval of the administrator till disposal of the suit filed by four co-opted governors challenging their removal from the board.

• NDTV Exclusive: Hillary Clinton on FDI, Mamata, Hafiz Saeed and outsourcing

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata to explore investment opportunities in the state. Before the meeting, Mrs Clinton was at a session at the La Martiniere School for Girls meeting with a cross-section of the people of Kolkata. The session was moderated by NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt.

• La Martiniere Principal accused of abetment of Rouvan Rawla's suicide

  A Kolkata court has decided that the principal who caned Rouvanjit Rawla at his school in Kolkata stands accused of driving the 13-year-old to suicide. Three other teachers have also been charged with abetment of suicide. Sunirmal Chakraborty had been charged with deliberately injuring the child, who killed himself in February, four days after Chak...

• School apologizes for SMS-ing dead student's father for fees

  On Wednesday morning, Ajay Rawla received an SMS from La Martiniere School asking him to ensure that his bank account can cover Rs 6225 required in the next few days as school fees for his son, Rouvan.    Except that 12-year-old Rouvan killed himself in February, four days after being caned by the La Martiniere principal. The case fo...

• La Martiniere school questions NCPCR investigation

  Kolkata's premier La Martiniere Boys School, under the scanner for the suicide by one of its students in February, allegedly after corporal punishment, has questioned the authenticity of the enquiry team sent by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to probe the incident. After a board meeting today, the school said it ...

• Indian government bans corporal punishment in schools

  Spare the rod, or end up in jail. That's the latest warning to teachers who resort to corporal punishment. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued a new set of guidelines that bans physical punishment of students.First violation of the ban will invite up to one year in jail, or a fine of Rs 50,000 or both. For subsequent violations, ...

• Martiniere alumni defend school, say Rouvan was 'sensitive'

  Many former students of Kolkata's prestigious La Martiniere for Boys School have come out in its defence after the controversy created by a student's suicide after being caned. "Our teachers are one of the most caring", says one Facebook post while another says that "caning was an acceptable form of punishment" and problem lay with the boy being "t...

• Rouvan suicide: School bans corporal punishment

  Kolkata's La Martiniere School for Boys has denied that a student's suicide can be linked to his caning by the school's principal days before his death. Nevertheless, on Friday, the school's Board of Governors announced new rules for teachers. Corporal punishment has been banned, and "no child shall be subjected to physical punishment or mental har...