-The Hindu Universal Access ensured, but quality remains a challenge India has made remarkable strides towards ensuring education for all, a new global monitoring report shows. While Access is now close to universal, the quality of education remains a major challenge, it says. In April 2000, the governments of 164 countries adopted the Dakar Framework to deliver Education For All commitments by 2015. On Thursday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...
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Day after green tribunal order, cops seize 96 vehicles
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after the National Green Tribunal banned diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in Delhi and NCR, the Delhi government was still in the process of trying to Access the order. Meanwhile, the Delhi traffic police prosecuted 96 vehicles. Of these, 38 were commercial vehicles while the rest were private vehicles. The traffic police said it had...
More »India ranks lower than even Nepal -Puja Mehra
-The Hindu Social Progress Index puts Norway on top, U.S. at 16th place Out of 133 countries rated on indicators of well-being such as health, water and sanitation, personal safety, Access to opportunity, tolerance, inclusion, personal freedom and choice India has secured the 101th place. This is lower than India's rank, of 93, for GDP per capita income. Even Nepal and Bangladesh rank higher than India on the Social Progress Index (SPI)...
More »Troublesome landing -Dipankar Dasgupta
-The Telegraph Singur, the potato bowl of Bengal, appears to have landed in trouble again. Not on account of unwilling farmers grieving over their lost assets, but on account of overproduction by the ones who didn't lose their land. Excess supply of the crop has pulled down prices, leading indebted farmers to slither down the precipice. According to media reports, matters have come to a dismal pass, with a section of...
More »Greenpeace India barred from receiving foreign funding
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday suspended Greenpeace India's Foreign Currency Regulation Act registration under which it receives funds from abroad. The government also issued a showcause notice to Greenpeace India asking why it's registration should not be terminated. Greenpeace India has on Wednesday alleged that the Union home ministry was "once again" seeking to block foreign funds being sent to it and said it was going to seeking...
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