Lakshadweep tops, Bihar trails as India posts 80.9% literacy. But gaps by gender and region persistIndia's literacy rate shows progress. The rate is 80.9% for those aged seven and above. Lakshadweep and Kerala lead in literacy. Bihar, Mad...
03 Jun, 2025, 04.40 PM IST
Mizoram makes history as India’s first fully literate stateMizoram has achieved a significant milestone, becoming the first fully literate state in India under the ULLAS initiative. Chief Minister L...
20 May, 2025, 07.27 PM IST
Chasing 100%, this time, Chandigarh literacyChandigarh aims for 100% literacy, tasking teachers with 'adopting' non-literate adults amidst existing duties, offering bonus marks as inc...
14 Apr, 2025, 11.41 PM IST
Rural literacy rate up over 10 pc points in past decade: Govt tells Lok SabhaRural India's literacy rate saw a significant boost over the past decade, rising by over 10 percentage points to 77.50% in 2023-24. Female ...
09 Dec, 2024, 10.07 PM IST
People with more financial literacy are less economically fragile — this matters for aggregate shocks from pandemics to climate change: Annamaria LusardiDrawing from our data, these are mostly the Nordic countries, Canada and the UK. They have a strong educational system and do well in finan...
28 Mar, 2024, 11.20 PM IST
Delay in India's census hurting quality of survey reports, says officialIndia's once in a decade census was due to be completed in 2021 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technical and logistical ...
19 Jul, 2023, 04.19 PM IST
International Women’s Day: How financial literacy can empower women in IndiaWhile the world around us is shedding stereotypes and eliminating negative ideas and perceptions to bring more gender equity, women continu...
08 Mar, 2023, 01.33 PM IST
World Computer Literacy Day: Significance and history. Here are all you should knowDecember 2 is celebrated as World Computer Literacy Day. The custom of celebrating the world computer literacy day started in 2001 by the I...
02 Dec, 2022, 04.13 PM IST
At least 15 crore children, youths out of formal education system: Dharmendra PradhanThe Education Minister said that a census following the independence of the country had found that 19 per cent of the population was litera...
12 Aug, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
View: New barometer of India’s economy fails to reflect deprivations of poor householdsFar from being nationally representative, CMIE's Consumer Pyramid Household Survey is heavily biased towards better-off households, and qui...
21 Jun, 2021, 12.24 PM IST
At 96.2%, Kerala tops literacy rate chart; Andhra Pradesh worst performer at 66.4%According to the study, after Kerala, Delhi has the best literacy rate at 88.7 per cent, followed by Uttarkhand's 87.6 per cent, Himachal P...
08 Sep, 2020, 09.09 AM IST
At 66 per cent, Andhra Pradesh’s literacy rate worst, Delhi’s 2nd best at 89 per centTypically, states with relatively low literacy rates also tend to have the highest gender skews, but that is not always true. Andhra Prades...
07 Sep, 2020, 08.14 AM IST
77.7% literacy rate among those above 7 years of age during July 2017 to June 2018: NSO SurveyThe literacy rate among those in the age group of seven years and above was recorded at 77.7 per cent during July 2017-June 2018 in the cou...
23 Nov, 2019, 10.36 PM IST
The Gujarat miracle: No denying the economic advances the state has made under Narendra ModiCritics who view Modi through the 2002 lens fail to separate their economics from politics & fall short of 20/20 vision.
23 Sep, 2012, 02.54 PM IST
- Plan panel focuses on quality education
In preparation for the Twelfth Plan period, the Planning Commission appears to have made "quality" the main focus of school education.
19 May, 2011, 05.10 AM IST
- Bravo, Census
Census 2011 results are out amazingly fast and show acute gender distress.
01 Apr, 2011, 07.45 AM IST
- Modi quotes Sachar report to counter Montek’s charge
The Gujarat government has used the findings of the Sachar Committee to blunt the Planning Commission’s charge that Muslim students were be...
22 May, 2010, 03.07 AM IST