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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Topic: EWS

Child rights panel summons 45 Delhi private schools for ‘denying’ books to EWS students

PTI -
Students in Delhi enrolled under the Economically Weaker Section/Disadvantaged Group categories in private schools have access to free textbooks, writing material and uniforms.

Delhi HC directs Modi govt to extend RTE till Class 12 to save poor children from eviction

Kritika Sharma -
Delhi High Court asks central government to consider extending provision, direct it to file an affidavit within two weeks. 

Modi govt had no plans to give special benefits to upper caste poor in UPSC or SSC exams

Sanya Dhingra -
EWS candidates hoped benefits such as age relaxation & exemption on number of attempts, applicable to SC, ST and OBC candidates, would be available to them.

Upper-caste poor will get 10% UPSC seats but age relaxation & more attempts unlikely

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Since this year's civil services exam marks the maiden run of the quota for upper-caste poor, the application process has been marked by confusion.

Good news continues to pour in for IAS aspirants

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

Parents, not kids, discriminate against poorer classmates: Study

Kritika Sharma -
An NGO is studying students in three Delhi schools to understand the social impact of the economically weaker section quota in private schools.

Centre refuses to share details of decision-making process on upper-caste quota

PTI -
The Centre has implemented 10% reservation for economically weaker sections of the general category in central govt posts from 1 February.

Parliament clears new quota bill but parties set for bitter battle over it before polls

D.K. Singh -
Modi government’s gambit puts opposition parties in a bind, but upper caste quota bill clears Rajya Sabha test with a 165-7 margin. New Delhi: The Rajya...
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This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

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Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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