'You cannot implement such a huge exercise, which is bound to cause misery to millions, without studying every aspect of its consequences, economic and social,' notes Sherna Gandhy.
The Taliban have been known for using violence to force the people to accept their agenda and views, he added.
Thirty years ago, he'd introduced himself as Capt Rohan Bhasin to his playschool teacher.
'The cold weather of Delhi was thawed away completely by the warmth of the prime minister,' says Kshitija Desai.
There is concern about the poor state of readiness of the navy's 140 warships which face severe shortages in sonar equipment, helicopters and torpedoes.
Ajay Bahadur Singh could not become a doctor because of family and financial constraints. He now helps financially challenged students from Bhubaneshwar become doctors.
It's more common than majority of Indians realise.
'We often celebrate scholastic excellence while ignoring the majority of students who aren't there yet,' Pratham CEO Rukmini Banerji tells Geetanjali Krishna. 'It's time we celebrated the bottom.'
The CBSE will declare the date of re-examination probably on Monday or Tuesday.
'The facilities here are neat and clean; proper hygiene is maintained.' 'This is better than what we had expected in India.'
Apeksha Bhattacharya has dedicated her life to popularising ballet.
While those who attended 'Livelihoods in Lockdown' learnt a lot, was anyone from the government listening?
'Younger children don't really distinguish based on class, gender, income and so on.'
Teachers often don't give their best or throw up their hands and assume that the student will figure it out with his tutor anyway. In the process, the entire school system is being made a mockery of.
The skies turned ember but the so-called "blood moon", when the Earth's natural satellite turns strikingly red, remained elusive. Enthusiasts anxiously waited until past midnight for clouds to give way to the spectacular event to become visible.
Cries of 'Jai Hind' rent the air as a large number of people bid a final adieu to Colonel Viplav Tripathi, his wife and five-year-old son, who were killed in a terrorist attack in Manipur two days ago, in their hometown Raigarh in Chhattisgarh on Monday.
Scores of students on Friday staged a protest outside the CBSE office in Delhi against the paper leak.
In Mehreen Amin's gym, Kashmiri girls who earlier had no access to female trainers, are 'gymming' their way to fitness.
To watch Dada standing on the steps of the airplane ladder with a glittering trophy in hand was exhilarating, recalls Hemant Kenkre.
It did not help that she was India's education minister -- Smriti Irani had to appear in an interview to get her children admitted to a school like any other parent who goes through this nightmare.
Sukanya Verma raises a toast to the man and his movie magic.
The CBSE had announced that it had rationalised the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 for the 2020-21 session by up to 30 per cent to make up for the academic loss caused due to COVID-19. However, it was the decision to drop topics related to Social Sciences which drew sharp reaction from opposition parties like the Congress, Left, Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena.
'I simply cannot believe that Sushant has taken such a step. He was such a lively boy who inspired others through his zest for life.'
'We are trying to trace them.' 'We feel their phone batteries must have died because they are travelling by road.'
In a nation divided by many things, the 12-digit unique identity number is holding lives to ransom.
Anger problems, however, don't crop up overnight. The signs are usually present at least two years before a major outburst comes to light.
At 19, he quit everything to work in a tribal village for free.
"The granting of the Freedom of the City of London recognises how they have added their voices to the growing global movement to stamp out racism."
The citation for his medal -- awarded at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro -- highlights his "profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics" and his "strikingly far-reaching conjectures."
Justice V K Jain also asked the university to allow Pulkit Chaudhary, Amandeep Kadian and Sharad Shekhar Tomar, who were asked to discontinue their studies on the allegations, to sit for their exams missed during the pendency of the trial.
In the course of his various tenures, Yediyurappa made many adversaries. Bommai, by contrast, knows the Opposition well and has many friends, cutting across parties -- he is, after all, only a 2008 BJP entrant.
'I may not have had a lot of money to spend on her, but I certainly make sure the government did,' a Delhi electrician who inspired his daughter to study tells Geetanjali Krishna.
Should we really pay attention to them, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'I do feel it's a question of your own upbringing, the way your father treats your mother, how the daughters are treated in the house.' 'You learn so much by osmosis. I suppose it's getting better, but it's not gone.' 'It's still a patriarchal society.'
As actors, Deepak Dobriyal, Raj Singh, Sid Makkar and Arjun Mathur are still waiting for that one critical break that will put them on an even more comfortable pedestal.
The journey of getting used to a new way of life -- without domestic help, without the necessity of dressing up to step out and just staying cooped up indoors -- has been out of the ordinary, equal parts good, bad and ugly.
"We have to collectively address all doubts. The vision of flexibility with which this policy was brought... We will have to show in a similar way maximum flexibility in implementing it," Modi said while addressing the 'Governors' Conference on the Role of NEP in Transforming Higher Education'.
Rishabh Lawania's three tips for success: 1. Innovate. 2. Fail fast. 3. Always see ahead of time.
In a three-page letter, Justice Sen has admitted that even BCCI has cleared Kalra's recorded date of birth of January 15, 1999. The cricketer has also provided his CBSE class X certificate, copy of passport, pan card which corroborates the same.
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