The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has reduced the pass percentage in the board examinations to match with the other boards. For the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) class 10 exams the pass marks has been dropped by two per cent from 35 per cent to 33
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The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that education is the most powerful weapon which can transform the world. He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the Andhra Pradesh Campus of Vellore Institute of Technology, in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh today. The Chief
India Hypertension Management Initiative (IHMI) was launched at a function in New Delhi on Tuesday. The IHMI aims to reduce disability and death related to cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of death in India, by improving the control of high blood pressure (hypertension), reducing salt
Many gripping true crime stories have been presented every Sunday morning since July by the Kolkata Police on their Facebook page. True-crime aficionados are hooked. The department accepted the request of followers of the FB page to provide information about old and sensational cases and decided to
An NGO in Chhattisgarh is addressing the urgent deficit in nutrition by providing three meals a day to children under three along with daycare. Since 2009, the NGO Jan Swasthya Sahyog has been running creches or phulwaris where children under the age of three can stay for eight hours. They eat three
South Delhi Municipal Corporation on Saturday inaugurated 'bal shuachalaya' — Delhi's first dedicated public toilet for children. The facility with colourful graffiti and inbuilt infrastructure was opened in RK Puram. Tulsi Joshy, the standing committee member and local councillor, said this novel
The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is stepping up its initiative to achieve the target of one crore accounts under the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) by the fiscal-end. Focused on the workers in the unorganised sector, PFRDA has already been able to open 73 lakh such accounts
Theirs was the story that made Dangal a superhit film. After Geeta and Babita on whom the movie was based, and their cousin Vinesh, another Phogat girl is on the rise. And according to brother Rahul, Ritu Phogat is ruthless, merciless and the most menacing of the sisters when she is on the mat. At
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an one-in-all app called UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) to provide over 150 services of the centre and state government on one single platform. This app is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and
The Bharti family, led by Sunil Mittal, has pledged Rs 7,000 crore — 10% of their family wealth, which includes 3% of their stake in the country’s largest telecom firm Bharti Airtel — to the Bharti Foundation, their philanthropic arm. The foundation, which runs the Satya Bharti schools in northern
A woman from Rajasthan with bipolar disorder and lost in Kerala, with her 18-month-old son in her arms, returned home on Thursday after nearly two years when she was cared for in a mental hospital that tracked down her home village and contacted police there. Rameela Devi (32) was seen wandering
Govt has promulgated the Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 to exempt bamboo grown in non-forest areas from definition of tree, thereby dispensing with the requirement of felling/transit permit for its economic use. Bamboo, though, taxonomically a grass, was legally defined as a tree under