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Will give Delhi its own education board, says Manish Sisodia

The new board will help students who currently rely on coaching centres to clear entrance exams such as JEE and NEET for engineering and medical colleges, said deputy Delhi CM Manish Sisodia.

Amitabh Bachchan for poetry, flute for physics: How CBSE schools are making lessons fun

The CBSE issued a circular to schools earlier this year to infuse education with art in a bid to ensure holistic lessons for students. 

HRD Ministry gives Institute of Eminence tag to DU, IIT-Kharagpur and 3 others

IIT-Madras, IIT-Kharagpur, Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University and University of Hyderabad were recommended for the 'eminence' status by the UGC.

Delhi govt includes OBC, general category students in its free coaching scheme

Under the 'Jai Bheem Mukhyamantri Yojana', the Delhi govt was providing aid of Rs 40,000 to scheduled caste students. The amount has been increased to Rs 1 lakh.

NCERT will adopt govt schools across India to improve quality of education

Beginning with village schools near its Regional Institutes of Education in five states, NCERT will soon help teachers across India’s government schools.

‘Students losing interest’, NCERT gets book to teach maths through rhyme, riddle & story

The book, 'Mazedaar Hai Ganit', aims to make learning fun and simple for children of classes 1 and 2.

UPSC question paper gets ‘lost in translation’, RSS-backed body wants it drafted in Hindi

RSS-linked Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas says 90% of UPSC qualifiers are from English-language backgrounds, which shows others are at a disadvantage.

RSS-backed body says no need for sex education, doesn’t want it in New Education Policy

RSS affiliate Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas doesn’t want sex education to be mandatory for all students. Instead, it is advocating need-based counselling.

More IITs, technical institutes for J&K as Modi govt readies special education plan

HRD ministry is working on a plan to improve the education infrastructure in J&K and Ladakh, which includes opening up of new colleges.

JNU professor who rewrote Russian textbooks after USSR fell awarded Pushkin Medal

Meeta Narain's academic excellence in Russian Philology and Translation Studies has been recognised worldwide and has won her many accolades.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.