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In big Calcutta HC ruling on Bengal TET scam case, relief for 32,000 teachers & a message to courts

HC overturned own 2023 ruling by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay that cancelled appointments of around 32,000 primary teachers, recruited on basis of 2014 Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET).

He didn’t sleep for days. Inside the SIR pressure that broke a Rajasthan BLO

Sleepless nights, suspension threats and a glitching app. Inside the pressure cooker crushing India’s teachers-turned-BLOs.

Bangladesh erupts again as Yunus govt backtracks on music & PT teacher hirings after ‘un-Islamic’ stir

Islami Andolon Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam, & Jamaat-e-Islami had labelled music and PT as 'un-Islamic'. Yunus govt has offered no explanation for its move.

Faulty systems, poor infra to ‘mistreatment’—Protesting aspirants allege SSC ‘played with their future’

Students & teachers have broken into protests over alleged mismanagement of SSC exams, slamming the firm contracted to conduct them & demanding dialogue with MoS Personnel.

Teacher fired for ‘teaching Kalma’ in Haryana school after protest by parents, right-wing group

School's principal says the Sanskrit instructor claims to only have answered students’ query about Muslim worship practices, but the school was forced to dismiss her.

WB teachers launch indefinite sit-in as govt fails to publish ‘deserving’ list in school job loss case

The agitating teachers also demanded the resignation of the SSC chairman and state Education Minister Bratya Basu.

Scale of cover up at each stage—SC’s blistering critique of WBSSC in school jobs scam

West Bengal School Service Commission candidly admitted rank-jumping, appointing non-meritorious candidates, manipulating OMR scores, acknowledged 6,276 illegal appointments were made.

8 FIITJEE centres close ahead of exams as several teachers resign over salary delays, cuts

Centres have closed in Meerut, Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Bhopal, Patna & Delhi, it is learnt. Parents approach police demanding accountability & refunds.

SubscriberWrites: Teachers travel with you all your life

The teacher has the burden of the curriculum, the challenge of living up to expectations, the need to work for a livelihood, and finally, the KRAs to meet.

How teachers are breaking the bad news about climate change to primary school children

Teachers who felt confident with the scientific “facts”, often felt less equipped to respond to student enquiries about social and emotional dimensions of climate change.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.