-NDTV Profit The relaxation comes against the backdrop of reports that many district co-operative banks did not have enough cash to disburse to farmers. The Finance Ministry on Tuesday allowed banks, post offices and district central cooperative banks to deposit the Scrapped Rs. 500 and 1,000 rupee notes with the Reserve Bank of India within 30 days and exchange the value of notes deposit with the new notes. In an official notification...
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Manual scavenging in Meerut: Why are women made to carry excreta on their head for two stale rotis a day? -Kainat Sarfaraz
-The Indian Express Out of all those engaged in manually removing human excreta, 95 per cent are women. While men are paid in cash, women are mostly paid in kind. Meerut And New Delhi: “I started my work as a manual scavenger after my marriage,” says Premi, as she dabs her tears with her faded yellow cotton dupatta. She’s known as ‘Budhiya’ (an old woman) in the Radhna Inayatpur village in Mawana...
More »Half of all 95s in CBSE English in Delhi's private schools: Data -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express More than half of all Class XII students in the country who scored (exactly) 95 per cent in English (Core) this year are from private schools in the Delhi region, an analysis of the results by an engineer based in New York has found. While the jury is still out on whether the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) abandoned the practice of grade inflation this year, one number...
More »DeMolished India's top rank -Jayanta Roy Chowdhury and R Suryamurthy
-The Telegraph New Delhi: India is no longer the fastest-growing major economy in the world: it has lost its bragging rights to China. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) today put out its provisional estimates on national income that showed real GDP growth had tumbled to 6.1 per cent in the fourth quarter (January-March). That is considerably slower than the 6.9 per cent growth that the resurgent Chinese economy racked up during the same...
More »Moderation row: HRD, CBSE not on same page -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The divergence between the government and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) over the controversy over moderation of results has widened with the board's decision to do away with re-evaluation of answer sheets. The ministry of human resource development and the CBSE were not on the same page over the decision to do away with moderation — thereafter struck down by the Delhi high court...
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