Private school body urges CBSE to reduce weightage of term one exams

Alleging that many schools adopted "unfair means and malpractices" while marking students during Term 1 examinations, some private schools have urged the Central Board of Secondary Education to reduce the weightage of the Term I examination for the 2021-2022 session.

Rough ride for cabbies

Lockdowns during the pandemic left Uber drivers battered. In their grim battle for survival, many are desperately looking for ways to beat the system and now resorting to protests to demand subsidised fuel from the government

DU Teachers’ Association stages protest, calls for class boycott over demands

The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) has called for a boycott of classes on Tuesday to press for its demands on a series of issues, including one-time regulation for absorption of ad-hoc and temporary teachers.

Wild Encounters at Odisha’s Bhitarkanika

Being the second-largest mangrove ecosystem in India, Bhitarkanika in Odisha is a wildlife enthusiast’s delight

52 cases of Dengue in Delhi while cases continue to rise

Till March 12 this year, 48 cases of dengue were recorded in the city. Four fresh cases have been reported in the last one week.

Cab drivers protest at Jantar Mantar: toll tax, fuel rates, fare fixation cited under concerns

Scores of drivers of tourist taxis, Ola, Uber cabs and three-wheelers participated in the protest at Jantar Mantar.

EWS entry level admissions to begin soon

Earlier, the admission process for the 2022-23 academic session under the three categories was scheduled to begin from March 22.

New ways of living and seeing: accepting the new normal

By March 2020, the pandemic was a stark reality and on March 25, the lockdowns started. Exactly two years later, it’s time to take stock of what our lives have become. Then, predictions that ‘Things will never be the same again’ sounded ominous.