By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: Indian parliament’s upper house (Rajya Sabha) on Sep 20 passed two of the three contentious farm bills amidst an uproar by opposition parties’ members and protests by farmers at several places. The two bills – Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, […]
New Delhi: Communist Party of China’s Xi Jinping is a major threat to global peace and the world needs to follow India in fighting his expansionism, an exiled Chinese student leader who had led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has said. Zhou Fengsuo, the president of Humanitarian China, […]
By Dr Pranav Kumar and Dr Tapan Kumar Bihari After a considerable gap of 34 years, the country has received its new National Education Policy (NEP), being hailed as a game changer policy for 21st Century India. However, some commentators have argued that the National Education Policy fails […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the authors’. For the writers’ other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Dr Pranav Kumar and Dr Tapan Kumar Bihari Declining Gross Enrollment Ratio through the primary and secondary stages has proven to be an […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India’s newest and strategically important Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir could soon have a new chief minister, ending a yearlong suspense over the restart of the political process in the region that has a border with Pakistan. Addressing the nation from the […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Hindus and Sikhs facing security threats in Afghanistan will be resettled in India, the Narendra Modi government has said. The move comes amidst reports of Hindus and Sikhs in the land-locked South Asian nation facing discrimination on the basis of their religion, forced […]
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: As rains in India gathered pace this month indicating a bountiful Monsoon, farmers across the country, taking advantage of increased soil moisture, have increased the area under plantation. As per the data made available by the Ministry of Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare, […]
