Our country, our mess

How's India doing in providing basic social services?

Nightmare festivals

There is growing concern over the pollution caused by festivals like Diwali

Who rules your world?

The Union minister for external affairs says ecology should not be an elitist issue

Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Research on thin ice

Lack of coherent research on the melting Gangotri glacier spells disaster

Balarama Digest: Kid stuff?

If you think free publicity, like 'free lunch', is a no-no in this newly liberalised world of ours, you have got it all wrong. Take a dekko at …

How an English-medium school near Sunderbans is helping children understand climate change

The school has introduced environmental pedagogy and vocational training to prepare them for alternative livelihood options

Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools

UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women

Has Dharavi Model made us lose sight of its real problems

COVID-19 pandemic will pass one day. But what about hunger, unemployment, loss of education and stigma

Congress manifesto promises jobs, welfare steps

Five focus areas include: Unemployment, poverty, farm distress, access to quality education and healthcare

Infant mortality, youth unemployment among top exclusion factors in North Africa

Political instability and conflict have contributed significantly to exacerbate inequalities among some regions

Modi’s burden of civilising rural India

Our prime minister’s recognition of ‘uncivilised’ state of rural India means he should be spending more on ‘civilising&…

Messiahs to rural folk

A few individuals are trying to bring about changes at the grassroots level through dedicated and sustained work

Transitioning classes into electronic gadgets: Life of students in lockdown

The idea of using digital technologies to teach students from homes was introduced to continue with education and overcome mental stress and anxiety

No smartphones, internet access: Odisha’s rural kids caught in digital divide

More than 70% rural children studying in a government elementary school in the state do not have laptops or smartphones  

World Bank study reveals high temperatures linked to lower exam scores in Ethiopia

Students exposed to higher temperatures during the school year, particularly on exam days, tend to perform worse than their cooler-climate …

Multidimensional poverty affects 2/3rd of children in rural Nigeria: UNICEF

Larger proportion of children involved in economic labour were multi-dimensionally poor

A political gimmick

When concern for the environment is merely cosmetic, can we hope for a change?

SUNNY DAYS

Remembering 2022: What it meant for India’s children  

As the year comes to a close and we gear up to welcome 2023, here’s revisiting some of the major events this year that significantly …

This Champaran school shows the way for girl education, but has no govt support 

Set up in Kasturba Gandhi’s name, the school was neglected until eforts by activists six years ago   

Union Budget 2022-23: Funds for science very low for India to make a mark, say experts

The importance that the government gives to science and technology is reflected in the budget, experts said

From Nalanda to nowhere: Will Bihar’s public libraries survive

State not granting funds, alleges Bihar MLA Sudama Prasad; only 51 of 540 libraries have survived since 1950s

National Medical Commission Bill: IMA defers protest

The association wants to first take public into confidence and wait for 'current political situation' to get better

Vyapam virus

The scam in Madhya Pradesh exposes the criminal nexus which has infected India's medical education system