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Students have been taking online classes for the past year amid the pandemic. New Delhi: Bhushan, 16, a class 11 student, and his 15-year-old sister Renuka, who is in class 10, live in a one-room house in Delhi’s Trilokpuri. They are among the thousands of students across India who have …

New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia has announced that the scheduled semester exams, which were to be taken online, have been suspended. The varsity’s decision was based on complaints from several students, who said they would not be able to sit for exams online. “The university has received various representations from …

Last Tuesday he went to the only other room in his house and committed suicide (Representational) Highlight Aishwarya Reddy was a sophomore math honors student at LSR College His family had mortgaged his one-bedroom house for his admission to college. The scholarship he was to receive in March was delayed, …

Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday ruled out reopening schools in the national capital for now. “Schools are not reopening for now,” Kejriwal told reporters on the sidelines of an event. The government had previously announced that schools will continue to be closed until October 31 due to the …

(This story was first published in the Times of India on October 23, 2020) BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has finally decided to reopen all graduates and graduate universities in the state since November 17. This includes Engineering, polytechnic and graduate universities. However, it has given students the option of attending …

Schools will gradually reopen. Schools will reopen after COVID-19 closes! The Education Ministry published on Monday the guidelines for the reopening of schools in a phased manner from October 15. Reporting this, the Union Cabinet Minister of Education Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank tweeted saying that states and Union Territories should …

Not providing devices, the Internet to poor students for online classes is digital apartheid, the court said. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has ordered private and government schools like Kendriya Vidyalayas or KVs to provide devices and an internet package to poor students for online classes, saying that failure …

Video editor: Deepthi ramdas “If we cannot expand digital education, which we cannot do today, we must bite the bullet and say this is an empty year,” says Sam Pitroda, technocrat and former adviser to former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. In an exclusive conversation with The fifth, Pitroda argued …

A true teacher is one who helps us think for ourselves. From the moment we enter our nursery classrooms, away from our parents, to the moment we graduate, teachers guide us along, smoothly and firmly. When parents cannot be there, it is their children’s teacher who cares for them, teaches …