NEW DELHI: For an examination system handling millions of answer sheets every year, the push towards technology was perhaps inevitable. CBSE’s rollout of on-screen marking (OSM) for Class XII board examinations this year was therefore hardly a radical experiment, but part of a larger shift already underway across universities and examination boards seeking to reduce…
NEW DELHI: With India staring at having a weak monsoon year that may impact overall farming operations and water availability in the country, Isha Foundation – a non-profit spiritual organisation – on Friday pitched for a farmer-driven ecological movement by adopting tree-based agriculture, which, it said, may not just help farmers in getting them better…
NEW DELHI: Declining any interim relief to the outfit that calls itself Cockroach Janta Party, Delhi high court on Friday sent its plea seeking unblocking of its X account to a review committee of the govt under the IT Rules to examine the issue and take a decision before July 7, reports Abhinav Garg.Justice Purushaindra…
NEW DELHI: Even as it indicated a decline in underage marriage, data released as part of the National Family Health Survey-6 (2023-24) showed that 20.1% women – in the 20-24 age group – surveyed were married before 18 years, the legal age of marriage for women. This marks a decline of a little over three…
Caesarean sections are the new ‘normal’ in private hospitals across India, with such deliveries accounting for 54% of births in private facilities in 2023-24. In Bengal, C-section deliveries at private facilities stood at 87.7%, while Telangana accounted for 84% and Andhra Pradesh 66%.This was revealed in data from the National Family Health Survey for 2023-24…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday launched a digital platform to monitor compliance with tobacco-free norms in schools and colleges and unveiled a new standard operating procedure for collection and testing of tobacco product samples, strengthening efforts to curb tobacco and nicotine addiction among young people.The pilot version of the Tobacco-Free Educational Institutions (ToFEI) Application…
NEW DELHI: CBSE is planning to directly provide scanned answer sheets to Class 12 students through DigiLocker from 2027 along with the marksheets.This was stated by a senior official of the ministry of education on Friday, even as the national education board’s On Screen Marking (OSM) has come under scrutiny amid complaints of answer-sheet mix-ups,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has turned down plea for fresh investigation into the international acquisition and transfer of animals to Vantara (Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre) at Jamnagar in Gujarat, saying the apex court appointed SIT, headed by retired SC judge J Chelameswar, had already given a clean chit and found no violation of…
NEW DELHI: Nearly two-thirds of all live births in India – 66.4% – were first-born children, while the fourth child and births thereafter dwindled to barely 3.5%, shows the 2024 Sample Registration System Statistical Report. On birth spacing, a critical factor for maternal health and child development, the data shows that 53.5% of second or…
NEW DELHI: In a bid to curb the “reserve and forget” habit among some high court judges, Supreme Court on Friday mandated a three month deadline for HCs to pronounce their verdicts, while also laying down that orders in bail cases must be passed immediately.After coming across a series of appeals against convictions in criminal…