-ThePrint.in The global survey shows 83.4% of Indian boys aspire to be software developers while 91.2% girls want to be psychiatrists. New Delhi: More girls than boys in India want to become Journalists, psychiatrists/psychologists, teachers and lawyers, a recently conducted global survey has revealed. More boys chose to be software developers, engineers, pilots and entrepreneurs in the survey. When it comes to overall career choice, however, engineer and doctor topped the chart. As per the...

-The Hindu The Indian education system would be a good place to start with reforms, says the development economist Jean Drèze is possibly the world’s most famous Belgian-Indian. He has lived in India since 1979, and is an Indian citizen. As a development economist and activist, he has helped draft some startlingly pro-people legislations, such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, and the National Food Security Act, 2013....

-The Telegraph 1 lakh farmers and farm labourers plan to march towards Parliament on November 30. But what do they want? Mumbai: We, who are not farmers, tend to think of farmers as a catch-all word. A word that signifies to us a people who work to cultivate something. I have no idea why. I can never see ‘Journalists’, for instance, as a catch-all word, even if some others do. This is...

-The Telegraph We rank 138th out of 180 countries on press freedom, and among the highest for murders of Journalists pending investigation India’s list of dubious distinctions is growing, especially with regard to the fourth estate. If it were not bad enough that the country has steadily been sliding downward each year on the World Press Freedom Index — at present, it ranks 138th out of 180 countries, just one place ahead...

-Scroll.inSince August, media reports have highlighted suspension of accounts, marking of news stories as spam by Facebook.With the general elections in India due early in 2019, greater attention is being paid to the digital space, which many believe will have a deep impact on the polls. Much of this attention is focused on Facebook, which was heavily criticised for its conduct in the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential...