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‘Jamia University terminated 23 employees from Valmiki community, no money for food’ – emotional video of terminated sanitation employees go viral
Jamia university terminated 23 employees of Valmiki community who had been working at the university for 15 to 20 years
Kaagaz Scanner: The India-made document scanner app that was praised by PM Modi in his Mann Ki Baat
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Kaagaz Scanner – A mobile app to scan documents, lauded by PM Modi in Mann Ki Baat
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal fact-checks Subramanian Swamy on JEE aspirants issue
Earlier on Wednesday, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Twitter had claimed that only 8 lakh out of the 18 lakh who had downloaded the JEE admit card actually appeared for the exam.
India finds a silver lining in coronavirus pandemic as ‘Education Television’ becomes a thing
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Launched on 10th July 2017, SWAYAM Prabha is a Ministry of Education initiative that provides 32 high-quality educational channels via Direct to Home (DTH) services 24x7.
New National Education Policy 2020 unveiled by Modi government, reforms aim to make India a ‘global knowledge superpower’
The new national education policy 2020 introduced by Modi govt seeks to reduce the content load in the school education curriculum.
HRD Minister clears the air about the exclusion of some chapters from CBSE syllabus for current year, calls MSM’s reporting sensationalism
HRD Minister said that news
reporter are sensationalizing the removal of chapters from CBSE syllabus due to lockdoown
Academic loss due to coronavirus: Course load of CBSE curriculum reduced, chapters on ‘secularism’, ‘citizenship’ deleted. Read details
The decision to drop such topics were made after the direction of the HRD ministry which asked the CBSE to reduce the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 by 30 per cent to compensate for the academic loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent closure of schools.
Supreme Court asks CBSE to consider cancelling the remaining board exams, allot marks based on internal assessment
In the petition, it was mentioned that many professional institutions and schools had cancelled their examinations, including the Delhi University. IITs across the country have also cancelled all the examinations, including the final year because of COVID-19.
The Wire report claims Tripura govt paid less amount to students for mid-day meal scheme, data shows govt paid 50% more
Tripura govt debunks The Wire report saying less amount was paid to students under mid-day meal scheme during lockdown
After outrage, HRD ministry deletes tweet promoting Malala Yousafzai, who had spread fake news against India on article 370
Malala Yousafzai had indulged in spreading fake news on Kashmir soon after Modi govt had scrapped Article 370
