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India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests -Nikhil Rampal
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-TheWire.in The need of the hour is to reorient policies built on equity, not only economic, political and social, but also ecological and environmental. India is completing the 75th year of its independence. It is a moment of celebration and, at the same time, an occasion to remember all those known and unknown who laid down their lives during a long struggle to make India free from the yoke of colonial rule. It...
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-The Telegraph Edutech is the white flour and refined sugar of learning The economic downturn caused by Covid-19 was the making of one class of business: the edutech industry. The closedown of schools created a need to teach students remotely. The electronic mode was the only possible means. But the way it was adopted prompts deep misgivings. I am actively involved with computer applications in teaching and research. The promise held out by...
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