-The Hindu Many students have vowed not to enter classrooms without their hijabs Bengaluru: Young women wearing religious headscarves tearfully pleading to be allowed entry into schools and colleges with many vowing not to remove their hijabs has raised concerns on the impact this will have on their education. While the case is in the High Court of Karnataka, several writers and activists from the Muslim community and education experts have expressed fear...

-The Telegraph The proposal to create NRF to support the projects in universities, colleges and other institutions is yet to be approved by the Union cabinet A plan by the Narendra Modi government to bolster India’s research competence through a new agency for which the Union finance minister had last year pledged Rs 50,000 crore over five years remains unapproved and unfunded. The proposal to create a National Research Foundation (NRF) to support...

-PTI/ NDTV Finance SECretary T V Somanathan on Monday said healthcare is primarily the responsibility of the states  Mumbai: Finance SECretary TV Somanathan on Monday said healthcare is primarily the responsibility of the states, amid suggestions by the industry that the budgetary allocation for the SECtor is still low at 1.3 per cent of GDP. At a post-budget interaction of industry representatives in Mumbai with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Confederation of Indian Industry...

-TheNewsMinute.com “The suggestion to have a uniform syllabus across the country and a single board is the brainchild of the right wing, which wants to create a homogenous nation, in place of the wonderfully diverse and multicultural society we have now.” In the crucial debate around federalism and states’ rights, one of the biggest issues is education. The subject was moved from the State List of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution...

-Newsclick.in By doing so, the corporate SECtor seems to have cautioned the government against expecting a fast rebound in industrial activity, as there is sizeable idle capacity in the absence of consumption demand. Kolkata: Rural stress and funds for the rural job guarantee scheme were surprise additions in the organised corporate SECtor’s listed points for the post-Budget interaction with the Union government held on February 5 under the aegis of the Confederation...