-The New Indian Express Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik said that from 70 per cent of the state's 30 districts being hit during the peak of Naxal activities, Odisha now hardly has parts of three districts affected by it. BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday requested the Centre to conduct a study on how many children from the left-wing extremism (LWE) affected areas across the country are getting into national level...
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31 Muslims (4.07%) out of 761 successful UPSC candidates
-MuslimMirror.com New Delhi: 31 Muslim students have cleared Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020. Sadaf Choudhary who ranked 23, has secured the highest rank among Muslim candidates. They constitute 4.07 per cent out of the total 761 successful candidates. The number of successful Muslim candidates has reduced this year in comparison to last year as a total of 42 had cleared the civil services exam in the 2019 batch. Shubham Kumar, an IIT Bombay...
More »Bhanwari Devi Case: Trial to Proceed Without Testimony of FBI's DNA Expert
-PTI/ TheWire.in The two-month time granted by the Supreme Court to the CBI to produce Amber B. Carr before the trial court ended on Thursday. Jodhpur: The Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case trial will now proceed without the testimony of prosecution witness Amber B. Carr, a DNA expert with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The two-month time granted by the Supreme Court to the CBI to produce her before...
More »Returning to school 17 months later -Krishna Kumar
-The Hindu The post-COVID-19 situation is complex and the ‘where we left it’ approach will not do for any stage of school education As children return to the classroom after an unprecedentedly long gap, many among their teachers realise that teaching will be tougher. And there are others who assume that it will be business as usual. In fact, they have already started teaching from the point ‘where we left it’, meaning...
More »Why Higher Education Is Still a Distant Dream for the Tribal Communities of Kerala -Shravan MK and Sivanth Adithya N
-TheWire.in Despite the state’s achievements in the education sector, the poor socio-political condition of marginalised groups keeps them out of the mainstream, with the pandemic making the situation worse. The 2021 Kerala Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) Examinations recorded an all-time high pass percentage of 99.47% compared to earlier years. Although this calls for celebrations, a scrutiny of the results shows that students from the state’s tribal communities performed proportionately poorly. This...
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