education
African Union launches ambitious “Year of Education” initiative for 2024
February 23, 2024
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has welcomed the declaration by African Union countries to celebrate 2024 as ‘Year of Education’ and has pledged support for African States in achieving universal primary and secondary education. In a p...
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Female bouncer Mehrunissa Shaukat tosses gender bias out of bars
December 29, 2022
She still recalls the time when she, along with her family, shifted from Saharanpur, a small, sleepy town in the hills of Uttar Pradesh to the bustling capital New Delhi. It was in 2003 that Mehrunissa Shaukat Ali was forced to move, along with her family, as her father had inc...
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Covid-19 overhang to seriously cripple Next Gen leadership, warns Aarohan at Leadership seminar
November 24, 2022
Clear warning about the crippling impact of Covid-19 on the quality of the next generation of national leadership was one of the key takeaways of the 2nd National Summit on Leadership in Positivity & Awards 2022, that was recently organised by Movement of Positivity in New De...
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Indian students continue to struggle with Covid-19 disruption
November 15, 2022
Students around the world are still paying for the disruption to their education caused by the widespread closure of schools around the world as one country after another moved to prolonged lockdowns. In most countries, schools have reopened only in this academic year, after almo...
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Airtel and Jio get into 5G sprint
October 8, 2022
Last week as the 5G network was officially launched in India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Mobile Congress (IMC), two of the biggest players in telecom, market leader Reliance Jio and its closest rival Bharti Airtel announced their own plans to start rolling out th...
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Femina Miss India Second Runner Up 2022 visits NGO Aarohan
July 21, 2022
To spread the message about the crucial importance of education in the modern society, second runner-up Femina Miss India 2022 Shinata Chauhan visited Aarohan, an NGO in New Delhi that works to promote education and skill development amongst underprivileged children as wel...
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Anganwadi workers to continue protest despite offer of hike in wages
February 25, 2022
On Thursday, the 25th day of protest by over 20,000 anganwadi (day care) workers, the Delhi government reached out to the protestors and offered them a carrot and a stick. While it marginally hiked their wages, it also issued a stern notice, warning the workers that if they faile...
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Budget 2022: Blind to today’s challenges, Modi government promises Amrit Kaal in distant future
February 4, 2022
Despite the din of gushing praises showered by the numerous pro-government media as well as practically every single industrialist and business lobby that jumped as if on a cue as soon as Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for 2022-23, a few soun...
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Skateboarding: India’s rare rural skate park
October 31, 2021
Skateboard is a sport that originated in California, United States, in the late 1940s. It is primarily a city sport which is played in skate parks and the bumps are the important accessories to allow the skateboarders show off their skills. In a country like India, especially in ...
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With helping hand from blind schools, visually impaired children see a bright future
August 29, 2021
Among millions of students across Delhi who had been waiting for this moment with great anxiety as the results of their class XII examinations were finally announced on July 30, was Ayush Prakash Jaiswal. He over overjoyed, like all other students, when he learnt that he had not ...
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Amidst large-scale dropouts due to Covid-19, saffronisation tops BJP agenda
July 27, 2021
As the economic and social cost of the Covid-19 pandemic becomes clearer, worrying reports of hundreds of thousands of students from various states either dropping out, giving up education entirely, or move from the more expensive private schools to government-run schools that ar...
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UNSDGs: Sustainable development remains a goal too far
July 13, 2021
In many ways it was heartening to see that the G7 Summit 2021, held in the United Kingdom on June 11-13, delved in detail on topics beyond business, trade, investment, strategy and power. For once, it took up issues that concern people and their well-being – health, poverty, ed...
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