Rumita Patel
HYDERABAD: More than 1,000 KG-Class 12 schools in the country are up for sale, hoping to raise an investment close to Rs 7,500 crore (approximately $ 1 billion) in the next two to three years, with the Covid-19 wave hitting India’s education sector hard. Most of the offerings are private budget schools with an annual…
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NEW DELHI: The sixth round of high-level military talks between India and China in eastern Ladakh is likely to take place in the coming days, even as the fast approaching winter has started to take a toll on rival deployed soldiers in the high altitude region. The operational situation, future strategy and agenda for the…
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NEW DELHI: The government on Friday he further tightened public procurement rules to allow ministries to require more than 50% local content, while insisting that foreign companies set up an Indian company to perform a contract rather than supply goods through imports . In addition, it has inserted a reciprocity clause in the Government Procurement…
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NEW DELHI: While Beijing has said that India’s policy towards China has not changed and New Delhi does not consider the development of India-China relations to depend on solving the boundary issue, the government believes that these statements are not accurate. China had made these claims after Foreign Minister S Jaishankar’s meeting in Moscow with…
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MUMBAI: The Enter key on the touchpad has never been considered so powerful. The once casual click has become the gateway to conference rooms for millions of students and workers in India whose learning was disrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Universities have integrated online platforms into their curricula and have asked students, whether in Kota…
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said on Friday that while it was obligated to intervene to protect the right to dignity of a community and stop a television broadcast that attempted to smear the Muslim community as a whole by hinting that they were infiltrating the civil services, could not act as a PIL-activated censor…
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About 60% of students in India go to their schools on foot, and the number is significantly higher in rural areas and for primary and primary school students. In general, more girls walk to school (62%) than boys (57.9%). The second most preferred means of transport is public transport (12.4%), followed by cycling (11.3%), according…
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The big drama unfolded Friday afternoon when search engine giant Google removed the Paytm mobile payment app from its Play Store, citing breach of its gaming restrictions, before bringing it back in the evening. Paytm’s fantasy gaming app was also removed prior to the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday, and did…
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A day after Lok Sabha passed three bills related to the agricultural sector, opposition parties across the country attacked the Center, saying that the passage of the new legislation will prove to be a death sentence for farmers. The government, on the other hand, maintained that the bills are of interest to the agricultural community….
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday rejected India’s demand that an Indian lawyer or the queen’s lawyer be appointed for the death row inmate Kulbhushan Jadhav to ensure a free and fair trial in this country. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, responding to a question during a press conference, said that India has been constantly making…
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