-The Times of India Describing journalists in general as having "very poor intellectual level", Press Council chairman Markandey Katju has called for the electronic media to be brought under the purview of the council. Katju went on to say in a television interview that he had a very poor opinion of most people in the media. "The general rut is very low and I have a poor opinion of most media people....
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The richness of the Ramayana, the poverty of a University
-The Hindu The controversial decision earlier this month by the Academic Council of Delhi University to drop A.K. Ramanujan's celebrated essay on the Ramayana, Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translations from the B.A. History (Honours) course has evoked sharp protests from several historians and other scholars. Coming three years after the Hindutva student body, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), vandalised DU's History department to protest against the...
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-PTI In a bid to eradicate illiteracy in Bihar, the state government has decided to rope in 10.5 lakh class IX and X students to educate 1.2 crore adult illiterate people in Bihar. The plan will be executed under a five-month literacy campaign 'Sakshar Bharat Yojana' to be launched from November 11 next, according to an HRD official. Under the proposal, as many as 10.50 lakh class IX and X students will be...
More »Accent on safety by R Ramachandran
The Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill is a first step towards granting functional autonomy to the country's nuclear regulator. THE true independence and functional autonomy of the existing Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has been questioned for long. The issue gained further importance in recent months after it was raised in many quarters in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March in Japan. To allay public fears as...
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-The Hindu Autopsies not completed as victims' relatives demand calling specialists from AIIMS in Delhi Tension in the violence-hit Gopalgarh town of Bharatpur district escalated on Monday with a five-member medical team from Jaipur failing to conduct autopsies on five of the eight victims of this past Wednesday's clash following objections raised by their kin. The bodies are kept in the mortuary at Bharatpur Government Hospital. State Chief Secretary S. Ahmed had announced...
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