The education ministry guidelines want schools to get health and wellness report of teachers and students and what their status is with respect to Covid-19.
Donald Trump calls school curriculum radical, claims students are taught that US was founded on oppression, not freedom, and that they should feel ashamed of their own history.
Evidence suggests schools reopening hasn’t been the primary cause of flare-ups in Covid-19 cases. Nevertheless, the coming months will bring some challenges.
Doctors have also been seeing an increase in emergency cases among children, typically because they've swallowed something dangerous like buttons and magnets.
Shorter hours, reduced strength, masks & sanitisers will be the norm when schools reopen, according to SOP announced by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
Keeping 250-plus million children away from school is impacting learning severely, and their mingling in school can hasten population or herd immunity.
States and UTs gave their responses on reopening of schools at a virtual meeting with HRD ministry last week. But no final decision has been taken yet.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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