School students in Surat pay tribute to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on the eve of his birth anniversary. | Photo Credit: ANI September 5 is celebrated as Teachers’ Day to mark the birth anniversary of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, scholar, philosopher and former president of our country. This year it is being marked as Student-Teacher Solidarity Day by … Read more
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters with Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, in Gandhinagar, on March 11. | Photo Credit: ANI Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters met Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in Gandhinagar on March 11 and they discussed establishment of a joint committee to strengthen cooperation between the … Read more
According to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, from the 2025-26 academic session, students will get an opportunity to appear for 10th and 12th class board exams twice. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu PM Modi to to launch projects worth ₹30,500 crore in Jammu and Kashmir on February 20 All eyes in J&K are … Read more
A day after the West Bengal Cabinet led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee approved a three-language formula where students across State-run schools in classes V-VIII, will have to study Bengali as a priority language, State Education Minister Bratya Basu on August 8 said that that government does not wish to impose Bengali. The Minister said that … Read more
IITH Director B.S. addressing the media at Kandi, in Sangareddy district, on Monday. | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF SANGAREDDY Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam, which coincides with the third anniversary of National Education Policy 2020, on July 29, 2023, at ITPO, Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi. The two-day event is … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a virtual address. | Photo Credit: ANI The National Education Policy (NEP) has reoriented the country’s education system in accordance with the demands of the future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Addressing a post-budget webinar, the Prime Minister said the education system was a victim … Read more
Close to three million scientific and technical terms in all modern Indian languages will soon be searchable via Google, enabling teachers, writers and translators as well as students to access such terminology when they need it in the course of their work. Technical terms from disciplines like Linguistics, Public Policy, Finance, Agriculture and Engineering will … Read more
India, Dr Swaminathan said, is also developing several vaccines with most under clinical trials, followed by Europe and North America. (Reuters/File photo) The World Health Organisation (WHO)’s chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan is upset that despite well thought through and planned-in-advance initiatives like COVAX to address any likely inequity in access to vaccines globally, today there … Read more
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Thursday said it is “highly perturbed” by the recent policy proposals for integration of all systems of medicine, calling it a “khichdi medical system” which could put millions of lives at risk. In a statement, the organisation of doctors said it stands for purity of systems of … Read more
NEW DELHI: The education ministry has drawn up a near 60-point action plan for reforming the schooling system in the country in line with recommendations made in the new National Education Policy, 2020 and plans to get it started in the 2022-23 academic session. A twin examination format, exams in classes 3, 5 and 8, … Read more