To understand the problem with public examinations we need to understand the different objectives they serve and how they interact and conflict with each other.
There is going to be no defence of freedom of thought from this government.
It is not only the biggest opener of Ranbir Kapoor's career, it is also the highest opener among films not starring one of the Khans in the lead.
Sukanya Verma lists significant memories in our 1996 recap.
"If telecom changed the game for how business was done in India, then we need 20 more of those systemic game-changers to take us to the next level," Ronnie Screwvala tells Pavan Lall.
India's gross domestic product product (GDP) growth rate between 2011-12 and 2016-17 should be about 4.5 per cent instead of the official estimate of close to 7 per cent, he said in a research paper published at Harvard University. "The Indian policy automobile has been navigated with a faulty, possibly broken, speedometer," he says in the paper.
Renu Khator will break a glass ceiling of sorts - in fact, two -- when she takes over as president of the University of Houston. While Indian Americans have traditionally done well in the field of education, not too many of them have gone on to head American educational institutions. And to complete the double, women heading major universities are rarities in themselves.
'Tamhane's densely composed shots achieve what a vacuously whizzing camera seldom does.' 'Like those Renaissance Paintings in which a bewitching lady is shown posing for a portrait, and daily life plays out in a corner unruffled, Tamhane's static frames have a hundred interesting things happening within them,' observes Sreehari Nair.
Uncertainty is so intrinsic to sports that elite athletes will not have much trouble coping up with a pandemic-forced lockdown, believe India's top sports psychologists as they become a part of their journey into an unchartered territory. Rocked by the coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted minds as much as health and productivity, sports pyshologists Dr Chaitanya Sridhar, Nanaki J Chadha, and Keerthana Swaminathan are dealing with athletes across disciplines and economic spectrum, being their "sounding board, friend" and enabling them to process the magnitude of the situation.
The expert noted that in India the pandemic is unlikely to be over in the months to come, and the number of people getting infected will continue to rise.
Moments that show it's an odd, odd world we live in.
The official data maintained by the Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research put the condition at severely polluted. The Particulate Matter 2.5 level was recorded at 146 while the PM 10 was at 233 in New Delhi.
If the finance minister's tax proposals have stimulated demand at all, it's for CAs, notes Kanika Datta.
From the boys who used to hand out tickets to people on the streets and invite them to their concerts free of charge to the men selling out Wembley Stadium in less than a day, having about 20 songs on Billboards #1, BTS have come a long way, says Maya Dominic, a fan of the Korean pop band.
In conducting the study, the researchers attached heart rate monitors to workers in a suburban office setting, while software sensors detected how often they switched windows on their computer screen.
Here are all the things you need to know so that you worry about nothing but your grades, says Mahavir Chopra. Read on!
This year's Laureates have shown how the problem of global poverty can be tackled by breaking it down into a number of smaller - but more precise - questions at individual or group levels, he Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
The rally from Raj Ghat to Jantar Mantar saw marchers fervently waving the tricolour and raising slogans like 'Vande Mataram' and 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' with some of them saying that nothing is above 'nationalism'.
Why did Pakistan sign a cease-fire without acquiring Kashmir, which was the sole purpose of the 1965 War, asks Ahmad Faruqui.
Humans are hardwired to fall out of love and move on to new romantic relationships, according to a new study.
Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi read out the Preamble to the Constitution of India as part of the 'Satyagraha of Unity' protest.
A student at Texas A&M University, USA, shares some pointers on how to go about picking a roommate in a foreign country.
Defending champion Petra Kvitova used a dominant serve to beat Lucie Safarova 6-7(6), 6-2, 6-2 in their all-Czech final at the Connecticut Open on Saturday.
The university will invest 10 million pounds initially to set up its first business research centre.
'For years we train for the Olympics and when we are this close, how can we stop training?'
Reader Trivikram Arun sent us a picture of Muralitharan from England.
These unmanned aerial vehicles can fly at high speeds, detect intruders, do aerobatic maneuvers like loops, rolls, spins, and hammerheads effortlessly and communicate with each other intelligently.
Governments make budgets to retain and consolidate their hold on power, not to please opponents or economists. They do so by trying to gratify as many as possible without causing harm to the others, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Three office-bearers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Wednesday resigned from the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party strongly protesting against the Centre's handling of the raging row at the premier university and "legitimising" actions of right wing fascist forces.
Four persons allegedly tried to attack Kanhaiya Kumar in separate instances during a march here led by him demanding release of the Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
'Does Avengers: Endgame close satisfactorily?' 'Does it beat that gold standard of superhero movies, which Mr Nolan gave us nearly seven years ago?' 'After watching on an IMAX screen at a midnight show yesterday, I would say, yes sir, it most certainly does.'
Yuki Bhambri asserted his class over a promising Arjun Kadhe even as young Sumit Nagal's ATP World Tour debut ended in a tame defeat at the Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune on Tuesday.
Defending champion Naomi Osaka of Japan was upset 7-5, 6-4 by Belinda Bencic in the fourth round at the US Open on Monday as the Swiss reached the quarter-finals for the second time.
To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair.
Hundreds of pillow fighters battle it out around the world to celebrate World Pillow Fight Day.
'India is still hierarchical, but not as much as Japan and people appreciate a flat working culture,' Charles Frump, managing director, Volvo Cars India, tells Pavan Lall.
The academic prize is sponsored by the Deutsche Bank Donation Fund and carries an endowment of euro 50,000.
The Nubia Red Magic 3S is delightfully designed and immensely powerful, says Veer Arjun Singh.
Seven young students from different parts of the country had a wide-ranging discussion from bringing out Congress manifesto in Braille, setting up gender-neutral toilets to steps for removing inequalities in education system and caste discrimination in society with the Congress chief.
This start-up took the 'novel' path to teach children mathematics.
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