Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre as one being 'run' by RSS, social activist Teesta Setalvad on Saturday alleged that issues such as 'Sanskritisation' were part of a process to change India into a Hindu state.
Two days after the sexual assault on a 3-and-half-year-old girl student at a school in Bangalore, police are yet to arrest the culprit, as the state government on Thursday decided to file a criminal case against the institution for violating several rules.
SC refuses urgent hearing of plea against NEET Ordinance.
Doctor who conducted the post-mortem says the child died of excessive bleeding.
A lot of student friendly changes were introduced this year.
A brief class by his teacher on the Rameswaram seashore on how birds fly and the locomotive force behind their flight gave former President A P J Abdul Kalam his aim in life and helped him in understanding physics better.
'Children are always under some kind of pressure. Pressure to perform in examinations, peer pressure of all kinds, pressure to look good; their hormones are going crazy. And there's nobody to help them.
Ten days after it came to light that a four-and-a-half-year-old boy inserted his finger and a sharpened pencil in the private parts of his classmate in a Delhi school, the girl's mother says the biggest hurdle in getting justice for her daughter is to battle the disbelief that she faces since the accused is so young.
'India is a country where many of the problems need local solutions and some be solved using basic science.'
The ongoing violence in the valley is driving students to excel, but it is also making them angry, discovers Ritwik Sharma.
The hurdle that remains with every government announcement is implementation. We don't lack ideas; we lack either the will or the competence to implement them, says Anjuli Bhargava
A lowdown on how this career portal launched by the Government of India will change your search for jobs forever
Choices are a fundamental part of our lives -- something we have to deal with no matter what we do.
At no stage is a student encouraged to develop further curiosity in a subject and those who do stumble upon their passion or interest do so more by chance than design.
In what may come as an embarrassing revelation for India's anti-doping machinery, 500 sportspersons, mostly weightlifters and track-and-field athletes, have failed drug tests conducted by NADA in the last four and a half years.
Eighteen-year-old Sana Samad is the second student after Kartik Sawnhey to have been allowed to pursue mathematics after Class 12 at the Delhi University.
Students would enjoy the two weeks of festival time and then brace themselves for the examinations.
If the prime minister wants the tension of examinations to ease up, he may have to look at some more serious reform of India's education system than holding festivals
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions
In an online chat with readers, NNS Chandra offers career advice.
SC sought reply from Centre and Haryana over the boy's father's plea seeking CBI probe.
Make The World Wonderful, an NGO founded by Meghana Dabbara in 2015, is on a mission to set up 2,500 child adoption programme centres by 2023.
While Smriti Irani might bristle with faux indignation at the 'malicious' newspaper report, it is very clear that just as Teacher's Day was hijacked by her boss and a day of celebration became an assignment, the first attack on Christmas as a holiday has been made in the war on India's cosmopolitan way of life, says the Mango Indian.
Few Harvard graduates are changing the way we teach students.
Besides the young techies and nerds who indulge in hacking for fun and as a challenge to break into important and tightly secured sites, crime syndicates are on the prowl to steal passwords, account details and personal information to indulge in illegal money transfers, ATM withdrawals and other damaging activities.
'Ever since I heard the news, I have been trying to recollect his face. Unfortunately I have not been able to.' 'It seems he was a very quiet, studious boy.' 'I still do not know how I might have missed him.'
Some 230 kilometres from Kolkata, in West Bengal's Birbhum district, 500 children stand out because of their 'unconventional' education, says Anjuli Bhargava.
International education consultant NNS Chandra shares his advice.
While there is no denying that certain sections of the community deserve aid, the politics of reservation can be suicidal for India.
In 20th edition of his radio programme 'Mann ki Baat', Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about water conservation, Rio Olympics and other subjects.
There are three aspects of this decision that you would have to weigh in to make an appropriate choice -- namely skills, interests and values.
And no, the commercial sporting leagues didn't cause the drought, says Shekhar Gupta.
Amit Bansal discusses the emerging trends in the engineering sector.
Consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on how to pick the right international education.
Following her spat, 'Aunty National' Irani took to Facebook to speak out against her detractors. Here's the Facebook post in response to her critics which Rediff.com represents verbatim:
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right international career.
Many exemptions make little sense, such as a monthly exemption of Rs 100 for college education and Rs 300 for hostel fees.
What gets forgotten in the German vs Sanskrit debate is the poor standard of teaching in India.
A former US military lieutenant travels to India to fight a battle of another kind. Archana Masih/Rediff.com met Robin Chaurasiya and the girls whose lives she is changing -- one day at a time.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right international university.
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