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College expansion has not been matched by a commensurate expansion in teaching capacity. | Photo Credit: lakshmiprasad S While India’s higher education sector has expanded rapidly in recent decades, with many new institutions and more students enrolled than ever before, has this expansion truly translated into equitable access alongside adequate capacity for delivering quality education? … Read more
Poll Prep: Officials check their EVMs and other election materials as they depart for their respective polling stations on the eve of Assam Assembly Election, in Guwahati on April 8, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI With Assam set to vote on April 9, for its 126-member Assembly, in a contest between the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and … Read more
Political party symbols are displayed for sale at a shop in Palakkad on Sunday, as campaigning for the Assembly elections enters its final phase. | Photo Credit: K K Mustafah Kerala is set to hold its Legislative Assembly elections on April 9, and the results will be announced on May 3. The stage is set … Read more
(1) Commercial LPG prices hiked Commercial LPG prices (19kg cylinders) were hiked on April 1, amidst an increase in international crude oil prices due to the Iran-U.S. war in West Asia. State-owned oil marketing companies Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation revised refill costs by more than ₹200 in most cities. The … Read more
Game bài DU88 mang đến cho người chơi trải nghiệm giải trí trực tuyến không thể bỏ lỡ. Với đa dạng loại hình trò chơi từ bài tây đến slot, DU88 tạo ra không gian giải trí sống động, hấp dẫn và đầy thú vị. Người chơi có thể thỏa sức khám phá, thử vận … Read more
Khám phá thế giới giải trí trực tuyến đầy hấp dẫn với Game bài Tx88 , nơi mang đến cho bạn cảm giác phấn khích và bất ngờ qua những trò chơi đa dạng. Từ các trò chơi bài cổ điển đến những tựa game mới lạ, Game bài Tx88 hứa hẹn sẽ đáp ứng … Read more
Two days after the Election Commission of India announced the dates for West Bengal Assembly polls on March 18, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) booth president was hacked to death due to intra-party rivalry in North 24 Parganas district, claiming the first fatality of the upcoming Assembly elections. In the past decade, Bengal has remained the … Read more
Kerala’s total R&D spending as a fraction of its GSDP is less than half of India’s 0.6% of GDP, a figure already considered inadequate. | Photo Credit: Galeanu Mihai In recent years, Kerala has framed its development strategy around equity and environmental protection. Between 2021-22 and 2026-27, it anchored its State budgets to the pillars … Read more
Welcome back data enthusiasts. Over the past month, as the war in West Asia has unfolded, we have moved beyond tracking missiles, conflict maps and casualty counts to look at something less visible but just as important — the spillover costs of the conflict. In the last two weeks, we focused on how the war … Read more
A fisherman casts his net in the Yamuna river, laden with foam, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi. The foam is a result of high levels of pollutants, particularly ammonia and phosphates, from industrial and wastewater discharges. | Photo Credit: AFP Every year, during the preparations for and festivities of Chhath Puja in Delhi, … Read more