By Vidhi Doshi New Delhi: After the summer break, Delhi’s children returned to school this month and found a new class added to their schedules: happiness. It wasn’t a welcome-back joke. In a country where top universities demand average test scores above 98 percent and where cheating on high schoolContinue Reading
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is known worldwide of making sense in his arguments. Taking this further about his previous argument on ‘India taking a quantum leap in the wrong direction after 2014’, he stood by his point and added that ‘Dalits and minorities have become victims of organised killing’ atContinue Reading
Justice Rajavijayaraghavan has directed the priest to surrender his passport, cooperate in the investigation Continue Reading
Mumbai: As many as 19,799 children died in Maharashtra between April 2017 and March 2018 due to various reasons, including poor weight and respiratory illnesses, Health Minister Deepak Sawant has said. The main reasons of death during the period were poor weight at the time of birth, premature delivery, contagiousContinue Reading
Deoria: A probe was ordered against a government primary school in the state of Uttar Pradesh for following a peculiar practice of remaining closed on Fridays instead of Sundays, an official said . Acting on a complaint against the principal of the school in Navalpur in Deoria, district magistrate SujitContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: A day after Malayalam writer S Hareesh withdrew a serialised novel in the wake of threats by Hindu right wing supporters over “offensive” portions it contained, support for the writer emerged from different sections of the society and across political lines. Noted writers, including M Mukundan and K Satchidanandan,Continue Reading
Kerala stands as the best governed state in the country said the Public Affairs Index 2018 released by the think tank Public Affairs Centre (PAC) in Bengaluru. “Kerala has topped the Public Affairs Index (PAI) for 2018 as the best governed state for the third consecutive year since 2016 amongContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar Hazaribagh: — Jayant Sinha is a Celtics fan. He graduated from Harvard. He worked for McKinsey. Born and raised in India but minted in the United States, he found wealth and success in the Boston area. His American friends say his politics were moderate,Continue Reading
The bench also clarified that from September 1 onward, automobile companies cannot sell vehicles without third party insuranceContinue Reading
Passports of eight non-resident Indians (NRIs), who abandoned their wives and absconded, have been cancelled, a senior official of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) said today. An inter-ministerial agency of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs hasContinue Reading
