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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicGirls education

Topic: Girls education

2 girls, 15 km, a world apart — the distance between school and child marriage in Rajasthan

There are grants and govt schemes galore but keeping girls out of child marriage is still an unfinished fight in Rajasthan. ‘You cannot just give information about a scheme.’

Educators endorse Maharashtra’s co-ed schools push, but caution against ‘dropouts, distraction’

State’s merger order for govt schools aims to foster equality & respect, improve gender balance and resource use, but experts fear girls dropping out. Commissioner to oversee implementation.

Bihar has many Khushboo Kumaris who score 400 but don’t get to study science. Arts their fate

A wave of ambition has swept across the girls of Danapur after Khushboo expressed her desire, refusing to be yet another girl with educational certificates in the marriage market.

Bangladesh political party tackles ‘anti-Islamic’ threat—teenage girls playing football

Over the past month, Islami Andolan Bangladesh workers have disrupted three inter-district girls’ football games, calling them ‘anti-Islamic’. But disruptions highlight larger issue.

What does 5 yrs of school give? 1960s-born Indian women learnt more than 1990s kids, says study

Women born in 1960s with 5 years of schooling almost 100% literate, while figure was around 40% for 90s-born women, says working paper by US-based Center for Global Development.

School dropout rate among girls gone down in 4 yrs says Modi govt, claims credit for schemes

Minister of state for education, Annapurna Devi, told parliament that dropout rate among girls has gone down, the sharpest of which has been at secondary level — a decline of nearly 5%.

School ban for Afghan girls, but Taliban leaders’ daughters play football, study medicine abroad

Islamic Emirate spokesperson, health minister, deputy foreign minister among two dozen Taliban leaders sending daughters to schools in Pakistan and Qatar.

11 million girls might not return to school due to Covid-19. Education system needs a reset

We are turning back decades of progress toward gender equality & putting girls at risk for adolescent pregnancy, early and forced marriage and violence.

Girls’ education is not a demand problem, it’s a supply problem — of schools, jobs, info

Early ideas about development were rooted in the idea that economic growth, measured by GDP, would lift countries out of poverty. But this model was gender blind.

All-boys Sainik Schools will finally induct girls from 2021, to reserve 10-20% seats

State govts have already told Sainik Schools to start developing the necessary infrastructure and medical facilities to induct girls.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.