Education
Class 12 On-Screen Marking (OSM) rollout exposes c...
June 2, 2026
The Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) abrupt introduction of the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system for Class 12 board examinations on February 9 has triggered a nationwide backlash after thousands of students reported unexplained score drops, unchecked answers and str...
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Need to ground India’s ambitions as global educa...
March 29, 2026
Almost ever since the independence, Pune, a big city near Mumbai, has been known as the education hub of India as it houses some of the most unique and avant-garde colleges as well as centres of research, like the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, the Inter-University...
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UGC flags 32 fake universities across India
March 14, 2026
As the beginning of admission cycle for higher education across India approaches, thousands of students are preparing for entrance exams, counselling and university applications. However, alongside legitimate institutions, a troubling reality persists organisations posing as univ...
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Guru Nanak College holds National Conference on In...
February 13, 2026
The Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Guru Nanak College (Autonomous), a socially-inclusive educational institution in Chennai, organised a national conference on Evolving Indo-Pacific Maritime Order: Perspectives on Security and Stability on Thursday, bringing toget...
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Budget 2026: Test of government’s priorities for...
January 28, 2026
As India prepares for Union Budget 2026, the education sector stands at a decisive moment. More than five years after the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 promised a generational transformation universal access, multidisciplinary learning, digital integration and increased pu...
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Student Startups: From study halls to stalls
January 12, 2026
As education in India evolves and begins its slow move from theoretical to practical learnings, a few students have begun to take the matters in their own hands and out of the classrooms as a rising number have begun to experiment with entrepreneurship, launching low-cost venture...
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Minority colleges welcome TN decision to allow ind...
January 7, 2026
Minority colleges in Tamil Nadu will henceforth be able to form their selection committees without government nominees, bringing an end to a four-year-long deadlock that had delayed approvals for hundreds of faculty appointments across minority-aided institutions in the state. Th...
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Education quality severely impacted by high AQI in...
January 1, 2026
Amid worsening air quality in Delhi, schools have been directed to shift classes up to Grade 5 to the online mode. For the past six weeks, the city has been recording Air Quality Index (AQI) levels in the “severe” to “hazardous” category, frequently crossing 400, posing s...
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Youth-led private libraries spark educational revi...
December 15, 2025
In the quiet lanes of towns and semi-urban neighbourhoods in Jammu and Kashmir, a silent educational movement is taking shape. With government libraries struggling to meet the needs of students, a growing number of unemployed young men and women are opening private reading rooms ...
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Mandatory local guardian rule of Jamia Millia Isla...
December 1, 2025
A new rule imposed by Jamia Millia Islamia, a leading university in South Delhi, now makes it mandatory for students applying for hostel accommodation to furnish a letter from a local guardian. As a large number of students at the university are from outside Delhi, they are being...
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