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Test-Taking Tips (for Teens)
Larger text size Large text size Regular text size Do you sweat, chew your pencil, and feel butterflies in your stomach as your teacher hands out a test? A lot of people (adults included) get freaked out when it’s time to take a test. It’s natural to feel some stress about taking tests. In fact, … Read more
Editors Guild moves SC as Manipur books its journalists
The Supreme Court on September 6, 2023, agreed to hear a plea of the Editors Guild of India (EGI), whose Manipur fact-finding team is facing the risk of arrest from the State. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on September 6, 2023, agreed to hear a plea of the Editors Guild of … Read more
Making room for books
E-readers may have become exceedingly popular, but they don’t wield the magic that books do. A click can never replicate the feeling of flipping pages, and there’s no way a e-reader can waft the smell of books. According to a 2009 study published in American Chemical Society’s Analytical Chemistry, the smell of old books is … Read more
Books at high-profile libraries just a click away
Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library in Patna. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Centre will soon launch a centralised repository of books accessible at all libraries across the country, including the high-profile Parliament Library, the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library and the collection at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Pilot in 13 libraries The move which is … Read more
Lokayukta books officials for maladministration of govt. PU hostel in Mysuru
The Karnataka Lokayukta has booked the Joint Director of Social Welfare Department and warden of Government Post Matric PUC Boys Hostel in Bogadi in Mysuru for alleged maladministration and poor maintenance of the hostel. After noticing ‘poor maintenance and maladministration’ at the hostel during his surprise visit on June 18, Upalokayukta K.N. Phaneendra has ordered … Read more
CBI books senior BSNL officials for graft; searches 25 locations
The CBI conducted searches at 25 locations in connection with an FIR registered against 21 BSNL officials, including a former general manager, officials said. The premier investigative agency alleged that the accused officials entered into a conspiracy with a contractor to cheat the government-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). The CBI registered the FIR against … Read more
From ₹3,000 for nursery students to ₹21,000 for high schoolers, exorbitant prices for books at private schools rile parents
A book stall at Avenue Road, Bengaluru, where school and college textbooks are sold. | Photo Credit: file photo How much does it cost for a student for one academic year in a private school in the city? Currently, parents are paying anything between ₹3,000 and ₹21,000 for books and stationery kits alone, leading to … Read more
Moving history books to the fiction section
The decision by the authorities to erase the Mughals from our textbooks has come too late to make my passage through history in school any easier. Had it been done in the 1970s, I wouldn’t have needed to memorise so many pages of history for the exams. George Orwell saw it happening in his 1984, … Read more