'Younger people have a very strong sense of what is wrong, and what is right, along with the opportunity to call out this kind of behaviour through mechanisms like social media.'
'During the course of these two years, as new people have joined, we have no mental picture to associate with them and hence, have little connection with them.'
In its interim order, the court also said use of National Council for Educational Research and Training books be made mandatory.
The Bharatiya Shiksha Niti Aayog will study the present education system and suggest corrective steps to make it Bharat-centric. G Sreedathan reports
A group of public health experts, including doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences and members from the national taskforce on COVID-19, have said that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains and recommended that there is no need to inoculate those who had documented coronavirus infection.
The government's step to curtail fiscal deficit is helping the central bank's monetary policy, Rajan said.
This episode highlights that the country's surveillance systems are not robust enough to ward off and prevent such attacks in the future.
Facing the twin task of fighting the coronavirus pandemic today and building a better tomorrow, the world is experiencing a new Bretton Woods moment, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said
What does Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee thinks about India's education sector?
Firms are offering employees flexi hours; demand for air purifiers, masks have skyrocketed.
The success of internal communication depends on its utilisation.
India has a long way to go before it develops a culture of professional boards accountable to institutional investors. There is, therefore, no realistic alternative to reforming and strengthening PSBs under government ownership, says T T Ram Mohan.
Some vaccine frontrunners are in advanced stages of trial and could hit the market by early next year, making the task of securing "last mile connectivity" and ensuring that nothing goes wrong before the shot is administered more urgent.
Build trust in face of lay-offs Communicating with employees is the key to easing pain as downsizing cycle sweeps IT.
Should we really pay attention to them, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Indian roads continue to be among the most dangerous in the world. Few people are even aware that the Good Samaritan Law exists. Getting a licence to drive is still far too easy.
Building toilets, however essential, must not be confused with sanitation and the crying need for a revamp of India's sewage systems.
'As long as people are eating we will be there,' Rebel Foods CEO Jaydeep Barman tells Viveat Susan Pinto and Niraj Bhatt.
Vardhan's elevation to the chairmanship of the 34-member World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board comes amid growing calls, including by United States President Donald Trump, to investigate how coronavirus originated in China's Wuhan city and subsequent action by Beijing.
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'I have always believed that life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we only get stronger and more resilient.'
India's state banks are under pressure to improve profitability.
Sanitation is always clubbed with other departments, which lead to its neglect, says Devanik Saha.
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.
As India's online population crosses 450 million, e-commerce ventures are trying to grab a pie of online sales estimated to hit $48 billion by 2020.
ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar stirred a hornet's nest this week when she linked the low numbers of women in B-school to a focus on quantitative ability in the testing process.
A growing number of firms are putting in formal policy frameworks to tap into company alumni and facilitate the return of former employees, discovers Sangeeta Tanwar.
Bankers seem to be pleased with the government for keeping its promise of not interfering in operational matters, but are apprehensive about the intense scrutiny of their functioning.
Nanotechnology has remarkable applications in a variety of spheres, including agriculture, animal husbandry and natural resources management.
Since you are sitting on that chair, how about doing some chair squats?
'I feel now we have a leader who is non-corruptible.' 'But he needs time as corruption is deep-rooted in our society, and people have no shame about being corrupt.' 'It will take at least 7 years to make some changes.'
A more rigorous training in core skills is required to boost the engineering talent in the country, instead of a varnish of 'soft skills', says Ajit Balakrishnan.
What might be useful is targeted assistance to those sectors and individuals that are disproportionately affected, suggests Mihir S Sharma.
Green rating of thermal power plants are way behind the global best.
Here's the full text of address to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on the eve of the Republic Day 2022.
'Stumbling blocks teach a lot and should be taken as stepping stones.'
'This is a tragedy that must be stopped.'
Enormous debt isn't the only thing afflicting Air India. Its work culture is an equal culprit in its downfall.
Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has the task of bringing clean tap water to all households by 2024.
Failure is something that needs to be managed as carefully as success.
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