schools
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...
Read More
On World Teachers’ Day, UNESCO rings alarm over shortage of teachers
October 5, 2022
Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, has expressed grave concern over the severe shortage of teachers in schools which threatens the objective of achieving universal basic education by the year 2030, as...
Read More
On Indian Teachers’ Day a message to today’s teachers
September 5, 2022
On this Indian Teachers’ Day, I would like to draw a comparison between the teachers of yesteryears and the teachers of the present. Gone are those days where a child at school looked up to the teacher as the supreme mentor in their lives. Whatever the teachers said was GodR...
Read More
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...
Read More
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 ...
Read More
NGO series: Aasra – Suicide prevention
February 7, 2017
As close to 800,000 people in the world resort to suicide every year, there is an apparent need for psychological and social support. And, at the time when people want to stay at a safe distance from suicidal people, Aasra is just a phone call away!
Read More
New Delhi set to implement action plan to fight pollution
December 3, 2016
After New Delhi witnessed severe rising pollution levels this year, the Supreme Court of India showed a green signal Friday for taking forward an action plan aimed at establishing measures to tackle air pollution in the capital.
Read More
Schools and construction sites come to a standstill in New Delhi
November 8, 2016
New Delhi is choking in its worst smog in 17 years as the little remaining clean air in the city has also waved a goodbye after the not so eco-friendly festive celebrations and the illegal crop burning in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), leading to a temporary closure of educ...
Read More
Is New Delhi India’s stalking capital?
October 10, 2016
New Delhi has been witnessing a lot of chaos in regard of stalking and rapes in the recent years. The number of stalking cases in the Indian capital have increased from 542 in 2014 to 1,128 in 2015 and the numbers have already reached to 670 this year until September, according t...
Read More
MSF in New Delhi marked one year of Kunduz hospital attack in Afghanistan
October 7, 2016
Marking one year of attack on medical facilities in Afghanistan last year, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, MSF India organised an event titled “Saving Lives, Staying Alive”on October 3, 2016 at the India Habitat ...
Read More
Jammu & Kashmir schools open to differently-abled children
June 24, 2016
More than 24,000 children with special needs have been enrolled in government schools in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir (North) and the state government is also making efforts to convert all existing schools differently-abled friendly.
Read More
Mercer’s quality of living survey
February 24, 2016
Hyderabad is the best Indian city to live in, according to the world ranking of Mercer on quality of living. The city of the State of Telangana (South) is distinguished for the second year in a row in India by the consultancy survey, which underlines notably its relatively good p...
Read More