What is our national aim? To my mind, our national aim must be to make India a highly prosperous country for its citizens, and for that it is necessary to have a high degree of industrialization.  Even setting up and running a single primary school requires a lot of money, e.g. for buying land, erecting the school building and providing for the recurrent expenditure for salaries of Teachers, staff, etc. We...

-The Hindu   Civil society groups have demanded an apology from the former Home Secretary of India, G.K. Pillai, for his “insensitive, sexist slandering” remarks on Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in a fake encounter in Gujarat in 2004. “Stung by the Special Investigation Team report, which concluded that Ishrat was executed in cold blood, Mr. Pillai — hard-pressed to defend his affidavit to the Supreme Court that Ishrat was a Lashkar operative...

-The Indian Express   A group of women activists on Thursday asked Union Home Secretary G K Pillai to apologise for his “sexist comments” in asserting that alleged LeT operative Ishrat Jahan’s conduct in checking into different hotels with “another man” was definitely suspicious. In a statement issued by the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association, the activists said Pillai made theses remarks since he was “hard-pressed to defend his affidavit to the Supreme Court...

-Mid-Day.com    Drug rehabilitation centres in the city have recorded some shocking changes with regard to the number of narcotic users this year. Rehabilitation centres recorded a shocking increase in the number of pre-teens seeking help for drug abuse. According to many such centres, 13 is currently the average age of drug abusers in the city, while 16 was the age recorded last year. "The lifestyle has changed and it is not just BPO...

-The Telegraph   Jharkhand High Court today scrapped the appointment of 8,042 government primary schoolTeachers, terming the eligibility test conducted by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) in July to screen candidates arbitrary and illegal. The order of the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Tatia and Justice P.P. Bhatt means schools will have to wait for Teachers longer, as 18,208 posts of Teachers (primary and Urdu) have been lying vacant since 2008. A petition was...