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Monday, November 10, 2025
TopicHRD Ministry

Topic: HRD Ministry

4 years on, India’s still waiting for new education policy — Modi govt’s big 2014 promise

Kritika Sharma -
Committee formulating the new education policy has already seen 4 extensions, and now there are fears it may not be launched in this govt’s tenure.

Ivy League curriculum to foreign faculty, Jio University’s competitors also had it all

Kritika Sharma -
The files show contenders had equally detailed academic plans with focus on learning pedagogy, faculty and curriculum.

Govt wants future school teachers equipped to deal with issues like Blue Whale Challenge 

Kritika Sharma -
HRD ministry is making B.Ed curriculum a four-year programme and revising syllabus to help teachers acquire new skills.

Modi govt plans to take Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s life to schoolkids across India

Kritika Sharma -
HRD Ministry sources say government wants chapters on Vajpayee's role in the Pokhran nuclear test, the Kargil war, and as a Jan Sangh leader.

IITs reject proposal to scrap JEE Advanced, B.Tech courses will continue in all institutes

Kritika Sharma -
IIT council rules that doing away with JEE Advanced, as proposed by HRD ministry, will make exam lose credibility.  

India has 10 lakh teaching vacancies. India has 4 lakh excess teachers. Go figure

Kritika Sharma -
The figures have confounded the government itself, and number-crunching is on to identify why there’s such a mismatch.

Over 9 lakh teaching posts in elementary schools lying vacant, HRD minister tells Lok Sabha

Alind Chauhan -
Jharkhand, J&K the worst affected. Despite large number of vacancies, CBSE did not conduct eligibility test last year.

IITs, IIMs, NITs have just 3% of total students but get 50% of government funds

Kritika Sharma -
The remaining 97% of students attend 865 educational institutes in the country and get less than half the government funds.

Nearly 57% of India’s teaching faculty belong to general category, STs least represented

Kritika Sharma -
Annual HRD report shows that OBCs outdo their quota; Muslims and other minorities better represented than STs.

Institution of Eminence tag not given to Jio Institution: Prakash Javadekar

PTI -
HRD minister said the panel had only recommended for a letter of intent, subject to certain conditions.
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The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah -
The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

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Economy

Digital push for grassroots banking: 2 new apps to transform urban cooperative banks for 9 cr users

Udit Bubna -
Cooperation Ministry takes a step towards financial inclusion with Sahkar DigiPay and Sahkar DigiLoan. They will enable faster and seamless access to financial services in small towns.

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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