It was probably the third time in the last nine months that, after its monetary policy meeting, the RBI had a word of caution for NBFCs. Ba...

The criminals from Nuh have victims in almost every state of India. Recent arrests of a few dozen criminals have led to the discovery of 28...

The ASER 2022 report, which surveyed 6.99 lakh children aged 3 to 16 across 616 rural districts, however, bears some good news. School-leve...

"The survey showed that underprivileged and tribal children were left abandoned by the Education Department. The schools were closed for tw...

Vaccinations are slowing down. As the temperature dips amid India’s most important festival season, people are crowding markets and hosting...

Sheer resourcefulness was on display as educators, edutech companies and social organisations scrambled to ensure millions of students in r...

India has nearly 4 lakh schools, which have less than 50 students each and a maximum of 2 teachers.

Why is Mewat in Haryana the worst performing district in India? It is just 80 km from Delhi, but ranks below some of the known backward dis...

India has also improved quantitative indicators such as enrolment levels, completion rates and other physical infrastructure.

Among the 10 states, Bihar spends 17.7 per cent of its total budget in school education and is only behind Maharashtra which spends 18 per ...

For the Congress, it would be an uphill task to retain either Assam or Kerala, and avoid being left with Karnataka as the lone major state ...

"We will start making visit to each commissionaries and seek people's suggestion before finalising the state budget," he said here.

Dropout rates in schools are unacceptably high at 58 per cent compared to the national average of 49 per cent.

The union minister said during implementation of schemes including MNREGA, he had noticed that ministers of state were interfering continuo...

Many hurdles have to be overcome for effective implementation of the Act as the states don't have the necessary "wherewithal and infrastruc...

In Meghalaya, teachers of state-run schools waste three crucial hours daily in cooking and serving afternoon meals to students.

Twenty months ago, when I presented the first Budget of the UPA Government, I asked Honourable Members - and the people of this country - t...