-Press release by organizers of All India Media Educators Conference-2018, dated 12th July, 2018 Jaipur: About 200 media educators, researchers and practitioners from all over India, during 3RD All India Media Educators' Conference in Jaipur releases a declaration upholding new values and needs to upgrade standards and inculcate positive values among media practitioners. Mr Kalyan Singh Kothari, Conference Secretary, while disclosing the “AIMEC-2018 Declaration” here today said that more than 200 media...

-The Pioneer Concerned over serious irregularities in selection to public posts, the Supreme Court has suggested the Centre to videograph all selection proceedings by the Public Service Commission and State Selection Boards. In an order passed recently, the apex court even asked the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to explore the possibility of installing CCTVs at the venues where examination and interview takes place to ensure that in the event any...

-Livemint.com While all of the post offices in India are supposed to have internet (and be digitized by the end of the year), internet connectivity is non-functional at several units Last month I read an interesting article about India’s postmen. It talked about the changing duties of postmen and the changing role of post offices. By the end of the article I was thinking of a scenario where our close to 2...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Participating as a volunteer in the Centre's financial literacy campaign for a cashless economy will yield academic credits to students of higher educational institutions, including the IITs. The Union HRD ministry has launched a scheme called the Vittiya Saksharta Abhiyan (Visaka) under which heads of institutions have been advised to give students credits for taking forward the Prime Minister's agenda. "Directors of all institutions should ensure that the necessary...

-Livemint.com The rich and the middle class have their digital wallets and credit cards; they can afford to wait two weeks, even 50 days, for their money to be exchanged One has to be astonishingly callous or exceptionally removed from reality to think that the poor are sleeping peacefully and only the rich are frightened, needing sleeping pills in the wake of the great currency-exchange drama playing out in India. For that’s...