Education ministry submits preliminary report which shows a wide digital divide among states in terms of children's access to e-learning methods. Several states yet to submit data.
The survey interviewed 19,000 people across 293 districts in 23 states, including UP, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The end of the pandemic is almost here. But the tail is long and — thanks to short-sighted global & national policies — this phase is no more of a 'great equalizer' than the start was.
Rahul Gandhi released a white paper Tuesday on Modi govt's 'disastrous' Covid management, saying purpose was not to criticise but to help country prepare for possible third wave.
Yatra will be symbolic and virtual aartis will allow devotees to pay obeisance while avoiding travel and exposure to the infection, said J&K L-G Manoj Sinha.
If hospitalisations & deaths stay low, Covid could begin to look less like an unmanageable pandemic & more like a seasonal disease like influenza. For policy-makers, that’s the goal.
NCB has arrested 102 drug dealers in the past six months – 70% of them in 15-35 age group. NCB says most are inspired by the glamorous portrayal of drug lords on OTT platforms.
According to CEA K.V. Subramanian, demands for stimulus should also consider that the Budget this year was presented amid the pandemic and incorporated significant fiscal expansion.
In Punjab's Patiala, official issuing death certificates says he never thought a time would come when papers with details of the dead would pile up on his table every day.
For India, the strategic ripples are significant. The immediate concern is Pakistan’s diplomatic gain as it embeds itself deeper into the defence framework of the Middle East.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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