-The Hindu A proposed legislation to make the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) a statutory body, the draft of which is in circulation among the States for comments, has made Education Department officials of States apprehensive. They fear that it will result in hundreds of elite schools affiliated to the Board going completely beyond their monitoring mechanism. While the rules of the Right to Education (RTE) Act give an important role...

-The Hindu Verdict wrongly held that even terror activities would amount to political movement: West Bengal The Supreme Court has stayed a Calcutta High Court judgment directing West Bengal to treat arrested members of the banned Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) as “political prisoners” by declaring the outfit a “political movement.” A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai was acting on the State government’s appeal challenging the rationale of the August...

-PTI India's atomic power generation has more than doubled since 2008-09 to 32,000 million units last year after it was permitted into the club of nations allowed to participate in international nuclear commerce. India's nuclear power sector had produced 14,927 million units of electricity in 2008-09, the year when it signed an additional safeguards protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA approval came on August 1, 2008 and the next...

-The Indian Express Forest clearance has been given to another mining project in Saranda forest, until recently a Naxal stronghold and part of core area of Singhbhum Elephant Reserve in Jharkhand. A month after the Environment Ministry’s Forest Advisory Committee gave the go-ahead for diversion of 500 hectares of forest land to Jindal Steel & Power Ltd for iron ore mining in fresh unbroken forest land, it has given clearance to SAIL...

-The Hindu Until we embrace the idea of consent in all relationships, including marriage, there can be no gender equality. Its absence makes discussions on sexual abuse meaningless The man who was my abuser was a fine host, a good husband, a caring father, a respected elder whose generosity and kindness were as genuine as the fact of the abuse. These qualities were important, because they helped him conceal the abuse he...