Forged certificates were allegedly issued by some central govt depts, PSUs, among others for facilitating admissions. CBI also names unknown public servants, private persons in FIRs.
Institutions that made the shortlist were selected from over 2.5 lakh govt schools, including Kendriya Vidyalayas & Navodaya Vidyalayas. Winners will be announced soon, says official.
Contractual teachers make up 20% of KVs’ teaching strength but permanent teachers get paid 1.5-4 times more. Here’s why contractual teachers in India’s KV schools are unhappy.
These admissions went over & above the seats these central govt schools have. While education minister's quota was scrapped last year, MP quota was done away with this week.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan scrapped MPs quota from special provisions list, allegedly because schools were getting too many recommendations. It removed quota for education minister last year.
It was being felt that Kendriya Vidyalayas are getting overcrowded because of admissions through special provisions, and hence they were put on hold earlier this month.
The KV Sangathan has issued guidelines for the reopening of its schools. However, the KVs, like other schools, will only call back students once the respective state/UT allows them.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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