Can Indian universities ask students to take exams when they have barely taught them? When the Coronavirus pandemic hit India, educational institutions were among the first public spaces to be closed to contain the spread of the virus. While exams for first and second year college students were cancelled, the question of conducting final year […]

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Most Nepalese students are well adjusted in India and will keep coming, the bigger deterrent for female students being ragging. People to people contact still endures Richa Karki called India ‘home’ for most of her life. She first arrived in India’s Kalimpong from Nepal’s Kathmandu to join school in the 1st grade. “I spent so […]

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Israel connect  What: Featuring the works of two leading contemporary artists from Israel, Dani Karavan and Atar Geva, an online exhibition brings together their work in a show titled ‘Plain Abstract’. They met at Givat Haviva (non-profit education centre founded in 1949) in its home for art, the GH Art Gallery. Growing into and out […]

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Flying from Delhi to Kolkata amid the pandemic was a comedy of errors or an unfolding tragedy — depending on how you look at it. The happy part is that I did not get contaminated ‘Avoid crowded places.’ The rules were loud and clear – in every news channel, in every precautionary advertisement, and in […]

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Senior citizens, who normally have a good support system in the villages, find them isolated during illness, unable to enjoy the comforts of family life In June, when Shanti, 72, fell ill, her greatest fear that nobody would visit her was coming true. Except her family, no outsider was visiting her. She felt that everyone […]

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Swarms of locusts invading northern parts of India may be a nuisance for locals but they are also being seen as an opportunity for biodiversity to flourish  Amid all the bad news, some good news. While locust attacks are disastrous for farmers, their presence has proved to be an opportunity for local biodiversity as they […]

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When an army officer went to court challenging the ban on the use of social media, it raised important questions about freedom of expression Delete your social media accounts or quit. This is what the Delhi High Court bench told a Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army who had approached the court to challenge the […]

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As the daily number of cases continue to increase amidst the easing of lockdown norms in the country, taking precautions and travelling only when necessary is key in breaking the chain of Coronavirus infection The current pandemic has changed the very meaning of normal and there seems no end to the devastation it has caused […]

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