Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited the Taimei Elementary School in Tokyo ahead of the significant summit-level talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.Children at Taimei......
The chances of 20 million children with physical and other disabilities to get the right to education has been jeopardised, as the Right to Education Bill, which was tabled in the Lok Sabha on......
... that's what teachers are telling students in many Indian schools. The only way out is to make sweeping changes in the way we select and train our teachers, says Shyamal Majumdar. After media......
We may be free but the taks before us remain undone. Gopal Krishna offers a checklistIn the 63rd year of British parliament's Indian Independence Act dated July 18, 1947, 'to make provision for the......
Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......
Amartya Sen is man of many parts -- Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, honorary doctorates from major universities across the world, and......
Economic Survey points out that the overall level of education in India is below global standards. There has been a marked improvement in female literacy as per Census 2011. Though the male......
The Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit entity promoted by Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, will work to improve elementary education at the grassroots level across the country. The foundation,......
The Common Minimum Programme of the United Progressive Alliance proposes to levy a cess on all taxes to raise outlay for education to 6 per cent of the GDP. Is this a good thing?A number of......
The services sector has done amazingly well for the country, but it is not 'the area where India has a long-term comparative advantage,' says an expert on the determinants of economic growth in......