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Thursday, September 25, 2025
TopicGirls education

Topic: Girls education

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.

Not educating girls costs the world $30 trillion, or the GDP of a dozen Indias

According to the World Bank, on average, women with a secondary education earn almost twice as much as those with none. 

On Camera

Theaterisation reform is stuck on ranks and roles — India’s military needs clarity

On paper, the idea of theaterisation is elegant. In practice, it is paralysed by ambiguities of rank and command.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

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.

‘Agni’ on the move—India successfully test-fires Agni-Prime nuclear missile from a train

With the latest test, India has the capability to launch a nuclear missile from under the sea, surface, air, and now from a railway network.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.