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TopicUnderprivileged children

Topic: underprivileged children

Guiding underprivileged kids to quality education, Dr Maqsood Ahmed is on a mission

The Nizamia Education Group has supported more than 10,000 students by providing free counselling and consultancy services to help them enrol in India’s top universities.

64% kids in rural India fear they have to drop out if not given additional support: Survey

Conducted by a Delhi-based NGO across 20 backward districts in 10 states in November 2020, the survey was carried out among 1,725 children, 1,605 parents, and 127 teachers.

1 in 6 kids lived in extreme poverty before Covid, condition to worsen globally — UN report

Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia consisted of 84 per cent of the world's extremely poor children, out of which India and Nigeria accounted for the most.

How India’s poor students are falling through the gaps as schools go digital

In India, where only half the population has access to Internet, 320 million students have been affected by online classes, according to Save The Children Fund.

Every new IAS, IPS, IRS officer will now have to ‘adopt’ and mentor a teen for life

Modi govt has already linked 425 teenagers from Gujarat’s Kevadiya with 2019 batch civil servants. Now it plans to expand the scheme country-wide.

On Camera

Shah Rukh Khan is the modern guru for an anxious generation

His transformation into this role didn’t happen overnight. Somewhere between superstardom and self-reflection, Khan has become a very shareable guru.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.