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Recite poems like Amitabh Bachchan, learn science through music, dance in CBSE schools

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

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. 

CBSE hikes board exam fees for SC/ST pupils by 24 times, general category to pay double

According to the revised norms, the SC & ST students will have to pay Rs 1,200 for five subjects , while earlier they paid Rs 50, a hike of 24 times.

CBSE bars students from changing subjects in classes 10 and 12

CBSE has directed schools to turn down requests from students seeking to change their subjects, especially if it requires parents making their own teaching arrangements.

CBSE will have practicals in History, English, Hindi for Class 12 students from 2020

CBSE wants 20 marks of practicals for all humanities subjects and has lined up field trips, project work and recitals as part of the plan.

As CBSE Class 12 students score 499, non-CBSE state boards worry about DU edge

Only two students from this CBSE Class XII batch have fallen one mark short of a perfect 500, while 21 others have scored over 495.

CBSE class 12 board results: Thiruvananthapuram records highest pass percentage

CBSE class 12 board results: Thiruvananthapuram records highest pass percentage

CBSE 12 board exam results announced, 2 girls get top score of 499

Hansika Shukla from Ghaziabad and Karishma Arora from Muzaffarnagar led the trend of girls outperforming boys in the class 12 CBSE board exams.

CBSE social science syllabus for Class X is now five chapters lighter

The CBSE has dropped five Class X social science chapters from the board syllabus, while retaining them for internal assessment.

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.