Assam CM Advocates for Self-Reliance During Visit to Tyagbir Hem Baruah College, ETEducation
Assam CM interacts with students at Tyagbir Hem Baruah College, emphasises building a self-reliant state Sonitpur: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who visited Sonitpur district as part of a one-day programme, visited Tyagbir Hem Baruah College at Jamugurihat and interacted with the students. Talking to the students, CM Sarma shared with them about the […]
ISRO employees want boss to address queries on privatisation
The Joint Action Council (JAC), representing nine Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) employees’ associations, have sought a meeting with the Chairperson of the space agency, Dr. V. Narayanan, to discuss key issues, like emerging threats of privatisation and transfer of technology, among others. In a letter dated October 7, the nine associations requested an early […]
Delhi Schools Mandated to Achieve 100% Aadhaar Seeding for Student Financial Benefits, ETEducation
These include subsidy for school uniforms, textbook subsidy for classes 9 to 12, financial assistance for Economically Backward Minorities (EBM), and the Lal Bahadur Shastri Scholarship for meritorious students. New Delhi: The Delhi Education Department has directed officials and schools to ensure 100 per cent Aadhaar seeding of bank accounts of student beneficiaries to prevent […]
Science for All newsletter: Food waste, a major contributor to climate change
In supreme irony, over 600 million people around the world experienced hunger in 2025. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) It produces five times the greenhouse gas emissions than does the aviation […]
Chance and happenstance: On the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Only in imagination, the mathematical imagination, does perfect equality exist. A fair coin has an equal probability of heads and tails, so across many tosses, the expectation is for the proportions to approach 50:50. Laborious demonstrations have shown that this is rarely the case; bias is preloaded into life. Only about 10% of humans are […]
ISRO employees want boss to address queries on privatisation
The Joint Action Council (JAC), representing nine Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) employees’ associations, have sought a meeting with the Chairperson of the space agency, Dr. V. Narayanan, to discuss key issues, like emerging threats of privatisation and transfer of technology, among others. In a letter dated October 7, the nine associations requested an early […]
Gujarat Increases Pre-PTC Admission Age to 30 and Adds Quotas for EWS and Disabilities, ETEducation
Gujarat raises Pre-PTC admission age limit to 30, introduces EWS and disability quotas. Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has raised the maximum age for admission to Pre-PTC (D.E.C.Ed.) colleges from 24 to 30 years and increased the number of seats per class from 50 to 62, while introducing reservations for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and persons […]
Haryana plans school audits to keep drugs away from students, ETEducation
Haryana CM Gurgaon: Days after Substance Abuse and Narcotics Knowledge, Awareness and Liberation Programme (Sankalp) society was set up as the state nodal body for de-addiction and rehabilitation, it has now been announced that all schools will have to conduct annual self-audits to check whether their environment is designed to keep students away from drugs. […]
India’s formidable cement footprint stands in its way to net-zero
By 2047, India plans to become an economically developed country. By 2070, it aims to become a net-zero emissions economy. Achieving both of these targets requires the Indian government to deal with one of the most important sources of emissions: construction. This sector consumes steel and cement, among other materials, and its footprint contributes 35% […]
Why do we suddenly forget why we walked into a room?
Our memory depends on context, and at your desk, there are cues, e.g. tape, to remind you of scissors. When you move away, the memory can weaken. | Photo Credit: Fotos/Unsplash A: Sometimes you get up from your desk because you need scissors and walk into the next room. Suddenly you stop and find your […]