Slingshot toting teenagers turn conservationists in Pakistan

Youngsters in northern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are giving up their guns to become a driving force behind wildlife conservation

Students protest cases nearly doubled between 2014 and 2018, shows NCRB data

Kerala still continues to top list but Haryana, UP, Bihar, Himachal account for 40% incidents

Students in government schools consume more vegetables in Delhi-NCR: study

In government schools, students consumed 250 gm of vegetables compared to 230 gm consumed by students in private schools

Teacher shortage: Sub-Saharan Africa needs 15 million new educators despite gap closing globally

Recruitment target hardly changed in the region since 2016

Turning rivers into killers

The recent tragedy in Manali caused by flash floods in river Beas raises serious questions on the management of dams and barrages in the country.

COVID-19: Teachers report reduced capacity to help vulnerable students, finds UNESCO survey

Students with low socioeconomic status more likely to worry about future education, falling behind 

Why Indian students need to go abroad to study medicine

Entrance to Indian medical colleges competitive and the tuition fees are high

How schoolchildren are 'seed-bombing' Bihar

A unique initiative by an NGO is helping the state increase its green cover while also spreading awareness

4 ways that artificial intelligence can help students

These tools can help create fully customised lessons for each individual

Davos 2020: Will sweeping protests across the globe lead to a new form of capitalism

‘Stakeholder capitalism’ may become a buzzword, but will it be a concept that can deliver

Open defecation in an ODF district in Rajasthan

Here's a travelogue to four tribal villages in Rajasthan's Sirohi district, which has been declared open-defecation free; but there are …

Assam schoolchildren draw up agenda for 2019 Lok Sabha elections

About 500 girls from Assam, aged 14-19, have produced a 'Children’s Agenda' focusing on health, nutrition, water, sanitation and …

Building toilets in rural schools is not enough, they have to be usable too

Around 23 per cent of rural schools have unusable toilets and 11.5 per cent have no separate toilets for girls, finds the 13th ASER report 

Low academic performers prone to higher stress: study

Psychologists have observed that children and adolescents are facing enormous anxiety and stress in the course of their academic programmes, …

Shortage of specialist doctors: DNB course can be a way forward

Training in Diplomate National Board course has helped deal with shortage of specialists in rural areas and skewed population-…

Almost half of doctors in US from lower-income countries

India has spent around $1,850 million on 53,000 medical graduates practicing in the US

Meghalaya suspends rat-hole coal mining

State government yet to finalise a policy for scientific and regulated mining in Jaintia hills and elsewhere

Subansiri dam protests: blockade of Arunachal Pradesh continues

Assam appoints group of ministers to talk to agitating people

Hunger stalks government schools in West Bengal

Pilot survey under Project Dipankar in four prosperous districts shows 87 per cent class I students of government schools are undernourished

Why Bihar serves poor quality meals to school kids

There are no guidelines for hygienic preparation and handling of mid-day meals for children; monitoring at local level virtually non-existent