The scorecard concludes that, on average, countries are “moving away” from the public education expenditure benchmarks of at least 4% of GDP or 15% of total public expenditure. NEW DELHI: India remains just above Unesco’s minimum GDP benchmark for education, but the sector’s share in government spending has slipped below the prescribed threshold. Education accounts…
Badal’s announcement conveyed the government’s efforts to realign the numbers in its favour this time round, after a similar exercise was defeated in the last session by a joint opposition, which has since been considerably weakened NEW DELHI: A day after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on…
FBI Director Kash Patel is scheduled to visit Russia in mid-October. FBI director Kash Patel is planning to visit Russia in mid-October at a time when Washington and Moscow continue to be at odds over the war in Ukraine, Politico reported, calling any such planned visit from the FBi chief as “unusual and sensitive”. Patel…
Quote of the day on love, its meaning and origin. The famous line “find what you love and let it kill you” is almost universally attributed to Charles Bukowski, though history tells a slightly more complicated story. Literature scholars and researchers have found no evidence that Bukowski ever wrote or spoke those exact words in…
Havildar Shere Thapa of the 2nd Battalion, Jammu & Kashmir Rifles, was credited with saving the Subansiri Valley during the 1962 Chinese aggression NEW DELHI: Sher-e-Thapa Memorial, set up in memory of 1962 China war hero Havildar Shere Thapa, is one of the 27 places in Arunachal that the Union government on Friday formally named…
A Porter Airlines flight was canceled in Canada because a child refused to fasten seatbelt. A flight was delayed by a day because of a misbehaving child who refused to sit and fasten the seatbelt. The incident took place on a Porter flight PD4444, which was scheduled to fly from Victoria International Airport to Toronto…
The forum also backed statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. SRINAGAR: The Forum for Human Rights in J&K has called for full restoration of statehood and repeal of 2019 Reorganisation Act, cautioning that linking statehood to the security situation and terrorist attacks could erode democratic rights in the…
Jason Arday/Image: St Mary’s University The University of Cambridge is reviewing the way it appoints senior academics after the resignation of Professor Jason Arday, whose career and academic record have come under intense scrutiny.Arday, who made history as Cambridge’s youngest Black professor when he was appointed in 2023, resigned from his position with immediate effect…
Anantnag: Security personnel conduct a raid to crack down on alleged terror-related activities , in Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. (PTI Photo) SRINAGAR: J&K Police’s Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) unit Saturday conducted searches at five locations across four districts of the Valley in a case involving allegations of posting content aimed at building an anti-national narrative.The…
A potentially enormous tungsten resource has been identified beneath the Nevada desert, but a NASA land restriction could prevent the company behind the project from fully exploring or developing it.3 Proton Lithium, a privately held critical-minerals developer, says its Railroad Valley Minerals Project contains an inferred tungsten resource of approximately 1.78 million tonnes. If future…