The school is a place where your child will spend the next 14 years of his/her life. Is it equipped to meet the future?
Easy but tricky -- that is how the students described the question papers as the examinations for class X and class XII under Central Board of Secondary Education started on Saturday across the country and abroad. For the first time, 20 per cent of the questions required 'high-order thinking skills' as prescribed by the National Curriculum Framework, the guiding document for preparation of NCERT textbooks.
Senators said Pak's discriminatory laws continue to result in prosecution of individuals due to their faith.
'We have done majoritarianism through other means.' 'The Citizenship Amendment Act, read together with the National Register of Citizens, will prove what I mean,' notes Aakar Patel.
It said that the move would delete 'unscrupulous facts' mentioned in textbooks against heroes and leaders.
Jasprit Bumrah in full flow is always a joy to watch, six or seven stuttering steps, a skip and a shuffle, followed by undiluted fire and fury.
The decision came just ten days after his two-year-old government announced it will provide compensation to 128 families of the infamous 1989 Bhagalpur riots, who were till now denied compensation.
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We must work in the direction of an innovation and technology driven economy which could boost up creation of jobs and open advanced and newer avenues of employment within the country.
The third of the total of five orbit raising manoeuvres of the Mars Orbiter spacecraft was performed early on Saturday, raising its apogee, the farthest point from Earth, to over 71,000 km.
The GSLV will put into orbit the INSAT-4CR, which carries 12 high-power Ku-band transponders for direct-to-home television services, video picture transmission and digital satellite news gathering.
Realigned training modules. Better automation and coding tools. Internal contests and more.
Here's a textbook case of how to win and keep a customer: It shows how the combination of relationship building and providing service that goes beyond the call of duty pays off for Wipro. The tale starts in 2003, just a few years after Germany's TUI (for Touristik Union International) AG, the world's largest travel company, was assembled through a series of acquisitions.
'In our textbooks, we never had chapters where a woman does something. We had one Rani Laxmibai chapter, the rest only the men did. We have been trained like that but, now, things have to change.'
The PM, who is the 'acharya' or chancellor of the central university, inaugurated Bangladesh Bhavan with Hasina on this occasion.
The lunar orbiter Chang'e-1 blasted off on board a Long March 3A carrier rocket at 6:05 pm (local time), as it began its journey to explore and map the moon's surface. Chang'e-1, named after a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon, is expected to enter the earth-moon transfer orbit on October 31 and arrive in the moon's orbit on November five.
In tune with the "enlightened moderation" philosophy being advocated by President Pervez Musharraf, drastic changes are being made in school textbooks.
'Many who have experimented with online education will adopt a blended model once things return to normal,' edX CEO and founder Anant Agrawal tells Anjuli Bhargava.
Union minister Satya Pal Singh on Wednesday called for inculcating scientific temper and curiosity among students.
Do you know that inflation is the enemy of profits that you make from your investments? Here's what you must know about inflation to plan your investments properly.
Bhubaneswar-based Akshaya Rautaray and Satabdi Mishra are on a mission to promote reading.
Our stock markets will remain volatile for a while and upswings could be followed by a downturn.
There have been instances when Hinduism has been presented in a distorted manner, sometimes intentionally or otherwise out of ignorance.
A controversial Indian-American physician in the United States has been arrested on fraud charges for prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to patients who were not pregnant.
A man has had to remortgage his house after losing a £50,000 bet on the recent India-Pakistan cricket series.
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Belgium used a combination of daring, intelligence, resilience and not a little luck to oust World Cup favourites Brazil 2-1 in a memorable quarter-final tie on Friday that would have made a worthy final.
'Event management can distract from, but not permanently mask, execution failures,' points out Rathin Roy, director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
'Why isn't the story of the valiant 13th Kumaon a part of every child's textbooks?' 'Why have we let these brave men die unwept, unmourned, and unsung?' asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
'Every religion has something positive and negative,' says Hindu American Foundation counsel Suhag A Shukla.
The curse of stardom, especially in a country like India -- which wants its Gods to be tidy and punctilious -- is that stardom forces you to stop exploring the frozen sea inside you, and instead inspires you more and more to perform out of a small puddle, observes Sreehari Nair.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored the 750th goal of his remarkable career in a 3-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv on Wednesday
NCERT also informed the court that it had already issued circulars to the schools about it.
'After each election the losers troop to the court with various objections. The general election will not be different.' 'It could be worse if there is no clear majority and the President has to invite the party with the largest number to form the government,' points out M J Antony.
The Right to Read programme hopes to cover 100,000 schools, covering 15 million students.
The 35-year-old has been bamboozling batsmen for 15 years now on the international scene and yet still somehow retains the element of surprise.
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