-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre plans to track every student enrolled in every private or government school in the country by their Aadhaar numbers to keep tabs on dropout rates. Those among the 26 crore students who do not have Aadhaar cards will be given a unique 18-digit number by which they will be tracked till they get their Aadhaar numbers. The idea behind the ID-based tracking system is to log the...
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Punjab says no money for technology to stop crop burning -Rohan Dua
-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: There is little chance of any let-up in air pollution in Punjab and the states of Delhi and Haryana Post-Diwali as Punjab has expressed its inability to provide farmers money for alternative technology, citing lack of funds. Following a rebuke from National Green Tribunal (NGT) on paddy burning last week, a cash-starved Punjab government has told the Centre that it does not have the money to implement...
More »No abnormal increase in High Court vacancies: Centre
-PTI New Delhi: The average annual rate of appointment of judges in the High Courts has not declined during the last two years, though no new appointments were made during April-December 2015 due to hearing of the NJAC matter, government sources said. Rapped by the Supreme Court for delaying judicial appointments, the government has said that it has increased the sanctioned strength of High Court judges from 906 to 1,079 and insisted...
More »SC slams Centre for delay in recruitment of judges -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for dragging its feet on the appointment of high court judges, accusing the government of trying to shut down the judiciary. So far, the Centre has cleared only 18 of 77 names recommended by the Collegium for Posts of high court judges. With the apex court threatening to summon PMO secretary over this delay, the Centre sought time to...
More »Rural India in grip of severe malnutrition -Gudipati Rajendera Kumar
-TheHansIndia.com Even through the Indian economy has been growing steadily in the Post-reform years, more and more people in rural India, where 833 million Indians (70 per cent) live, people are consuming fewer nutrients than are required to stay healthy, according to a National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) survey. In rural population, cereals and millets form the bulk of the diet. In general, the rural population subsisting on an inadequate diet as...
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