In India, NGOs like Pratham have pushed programmes and ideas on government-run schools which the world has found unacceptable. The alarm bells about Pratham, and the ASER survey’s impact, when rung by a few journalists, have not been heard.

The Skill India mission, made up of inadequate short-term courses, often leads to apprenticeships that end in a year. Meanwhile, India’s labour policies that promote contractual employment for low wages and no benefits fuel the pursuit of government jobs.

The 21-year-old was arrested under UAPA charges in May last year.

Pracha is the lawyer in the headlines, in the viral videos. He is the lawyer who addressed Shaheen Bagh. He is the lawyer with political ambitions, or a savior complex.

“It is humiliating. My job is to forgive students’ mistakes, to correct their path. I am trained to forgive, not to impose fines.”

After the CBSE hiked the registration fee last year, the Delhi government waived it but is in no mood to do so again.

Anti-CAA protestors and former municipal councillor Ishrat Jehan was released on bail to enable her to get married on Friday. When the week is over, she will go back to jail until her trial for offences under the draconian anti-terror law.

The practice's psychological and social impact is now being felt.

New research shows that school teachers spend less then a fifth of their time teaching, but Amitabh Kant’s intervention to excuse them from election duty was censured as "unwarranted".