Many say UGC mandate will bring relief Tension is written on the faces of students sitting in front of computer screens with MCQs. The pressure of scoring good grades is clearly visible as they look at the clock at regular intervals. Their parents stand outside, waiting for them to narrate how it went. Such is […]
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India’s pushback at China’s growing regional ambitions draws their disputed border into an emerging Great-Power conflict, writes Nishant Kumar India and China marked 2020 as the 70th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations. They are the two major regional powers in Asia and in 2008, China became India’s largest trading partner. But their poorly defined and disputed border […]
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Voting machines are tamper-proof and perfect for Indian elections India is the world’s largest democracy. With an electorate of more than 817 million, it would be foolish to go back to paper ballots. It is like going back to bullock carts because cars and planes are hijacked once in a while. Electronic voting machines (EVMs) […]
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Image Courtesy: The Print It’s possible to physically hack EVMs; Govt. must make way for paper ballots India should go back to using paper ballots in elections. Or, at least, voters should be given an option. India is the world’s largest democracy. Every time there is an election, the credibility of electronic voting machines (EVMs) […]
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Getting rid of the MPhil programme could prove costly to higher education, says Nishant Kumar The MPhil, a two-year advanced postgraduate programme, has long been a vital step on the road to developing the research and analytical skills required to write a doctoral dissertation and earn a PhD. That invaluable learning experience could now be […]
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Trees hold the key to controlling pollution and protecting human health, says Nidhi Kajaria Indiscriminate tree felling for infrastructural development has become a major source of environmental stress in India. According to data released by the union ministry of environment, forests and climate change, between April 2016 and March 2019 as many as 76,72,337 trees […]
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