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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: School

Netflix’s Sex Education is the closest we’ll get to ‘that’ conversation in India, for now

Nikhil Rampal -
Conversations about sex make Indians uncomfortable. Even in school, where we are supposed to be educated, sexual health is a chapter best not taught.

Pakistan’s never-ending nightmare of blasphemy laws has a new victim — a school principal

Shubhangi Misra -
The latest sentencing by the Lahore court highlights the need for Pakistan to revisit its colonial-era blasphemy laws that are misused regularly.

Nobody knows the fate of our ‘out-of-school’ children. Enrolment data is insufficient

Shreyasi Rao -
Enrolment data is no longer a strong enough indicator to measure drop-out rates; attendance data must be closely monitored as well.

Caste or income or mother? As primary schools reopen, we need to decide who gets extra support

Vidya Mahambare -
The pandemic-induced loss of learning in primary schools has remained unaddressed. It is the foundation for vital outcomes like employment and income.

School lockdowns in India have robbed a generation of upward mobility

Andy Mukherjee -
India's edtech market is thriving but millions of children still don't have access to online education. Physical classes must resume or else learning gaps may become impossible to reverse.

Beaming Delhi students return to school after 17 months, but rains, Covid worries hit attendance

Soniya Agrawal -
Schools for classes 9 to 12, colleges and coaching centres reopened Wednesday in Delhi in a phased manner.

Jagan Reddy is giving Andhra Pradesh children something better than gold — English education

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd -
The Andhra Pradesh model of education under CM Jagan Reddy is breaking barriers for children. He’s equalising language.

How Emergency made it to school textbooks during Congress raj

Yogendra Yadav -
The preface in the NCERT book on political science said it was a “tribute to the maturity of Indian democracy”. I wince as I read that now.

Covid has shown pedagogy needs to evolve to prepare children for the changing world

Paramita Baishya -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

India’s 24 cr school students need to be green-jobs ready. Give them climate literacy

Indu K. Murthy -
India is one of the few countries where environmental studies is compulsory at all levels of formal education — but it’s mostly textbook reading.
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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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