Recruitment scandals, new competency exams, ad-hocism, and low salaries—India's schoolteachers are fighting on the streets, in courts, and even online.
Teachers' collective says increasing pressure from these tasks has left no time to finish the curriculum, and places teachers in high-stress situations amid last-minute demands.
From organising Swachhta Pakhwada to carrying out Veergatha project and chasing students to open accounts, schoolteachers are spending a lot of time on non-teaching work.
On 23 May 1953, C Rajagopalachari delivered a speech at the Malabar District Political Conference in Palghat, examining the rise and fall of communism in India.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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