-The Hindu World’s largest teacher training programme, says HRD Ministry New Delhi: More than 42 lakh teachers and principals of primary and elementary-age government schools across the country will undergo a five-day training programme over the next few months to learn innovative teaching methods, the use of art and technology in the classroom and basic counselling techniques. On Wednesday, the Human Resource Development Ministry kicked off the National Initiative for School Heads' and...

-BusinessToday.in According to former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, the slowdown in the economy "very worrisome", and he called for pressing reforms to boost the economy and energise the private sector to invest as well as a fresh look at the way GDP is being calculated Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said the economic slowdown in India is "very worrisome" and has called for a fresh look at the way GDP is...

-The Indian Express Essentially, the ONORC scheme has been launched keeping in mind the internal migRATion of our country. Last Friday, the government launched the pilot project for the inter-state portability of RATion cards between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and between Maharashtra and GujaRAT, as part of its ‘One Nation, One RATion Card’ scheme. “It is a historic day. We have started off inter-state portability of RATion card pairing two states...

-Livemint.com It is risky at this juncture to bet merely on a natural recovery. Even so, using monetary policy is the best option right now Much of the debate in recent months has been focused on the sharp loss of economic momentum in India. The big question is whether the ongoing slowdown is structural or cyclical. The usual thumb rule is that the policy response to a structural slowdown is through economic reforms...

-Scroll.in More than a tenth of GDP is provided by government expenditure. This is (more) bad news for the Indian economy. In 1773, the British Parliament passed the Regulating Act, appointing a governor general to oversee all of British India. This law marked the beginnings of the Central government of the British Raj, the single most significant institution to shape the Indian subcontinent for the next two centuries. It continues till today...