Topic: Rural education
No child left behind in online classes, use SECC data to find rural homes without internet
The internet infrastructure, if put in place, would continue to provide the best in education experience to India's hinterlands even in post-Covid era.
Huge rural-urban gap in education expenditure & internet access, reveals NSO survey
A nationwide survey conducted by the National Statistics Office titled “Household Social Consumption: Education” highlights the rural-urban gap in education.
Older rural children show decline in learning abilities, younger show improvement: ASER
Annual ASER report reveals learning abilities among older children lowest in a decade while basic Maths continues to remain a problem across sections.
Like doctors, Modi govt wants to make it compulsory for teachers to work in villages
Central govt working on policy to bring 60.61 lakh out-of-school children back into the system; CABE sub-committee recommends following doctors' model.
On Camera
YourTurn
Pakistan can learn from Israel’s secret weapon and arrest its intellectual decline
How did Israel, a country of nine million — between one-half and one-third of Karachi’s population — manage to subdue 400m Arabs?
Keep calm and carry on: Unlike wheat, rice isn’t hot yet
The world is worried that India might restrict exports of rice after wheat, pushing prices higher and worsening global food security.
Defence
India’s Eastern Seaboard gets its first naval air squadron INAS 324
With INAS 324, the Indian Navy's Eastern Seaboard will now operate a naval air squadron with HAL’s indigenously built Advanced Light Helicopter.
Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.