Tuvalu: Barely above water
Thanks to rising sea levels, scientists fear the entire archipelago could be unliveable by the end of the century Source link
After UPSC Failure, Shruti Shrivastava Is Changing Rural Education for 900 Children in MP
“I did not like going to school. The teachers taught us, but sometimes they also scolded and hit us. I never really felt interested in learning,” recalls nine-year-old Jamna Prasad. Growing up in Bankhedi village in Madhya Pradesh, school was never a place he looked forward to. With teachers juggling several classes at once, asking […]
New Rules Mandate LG Essentiality Certificate for Delhi Schools on Government Land, ETEducation
The overcrowding crisis in Delhi government schools has sparked alarm among education advocates and students alike New Delhi: Societies and public trusts seeking institutional land from govt or a municipal corporation at concessional rates or through auction to establish private schools in Delhi will have to obtain an essentiality certificate from the lieutenant governor before […]
Draft of new private varsities bill ready, curbs to be eased, ETEducation
Draft of new private varsities bill ready, curbs to be eased Thiruvananthapuram: The draft of a new private universities bill, envisaging a more liberal framework for institutions, is ready. Besides greater operational and academic freedom, it proposes exemption from land-ceiling restrictions for holdings of up to 100 acres and waiver of stamp duty and registration […]
The ‘WarGames’ problem: Computer science has long understood what it takes to keep AI under control
AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article – representative of much news coverage of AI – described an OpenAI hacking as “A.I. bots going rogue and independently spearheading a cyberattack.” Name-brand artificial intelligence agents have been on a hacking spree in 2026. OpenAI’s software agents hacked […]
Maharashtra CM Fadnavis Launches Campaign to Revamp Education and Healthcare Infrastructure, ETEducation
Maha CM Fadnavis directs to launch district wise time-bound campaigns to improve education, healthcare institutions. Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis instructed every district to launch an independent time-bound campaign for the maintenance, repair, and infrastructure improvement of buildings housing schools, residential schools, Ashram schools, Anganwadi centres, primary health centres and sub-centres, ITIs, and technical […]
Haryana CM Saini Advocates Industry-Focused Skill Development for Youth’s Future, ETEducation
Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini Gurugram, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has said the state has no dearth of talent and stressed the need to provide the right direction and skills to its youth in line with changing industry requirements. Saini made the remarks while releasing the Haryana State Skill Gap Study and 23 […]
CSIR-CCMB develops India-specific tool to predict Sickle Cell severity
Researchers from CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) analysed the medical records of 171 children, aged up to 18 years, with Sickle Cell Anaemia and receiving treatment at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur. The image is used for representative purposes only. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES Doctors may soon have a more […]
Ig Nobel Prizes 2026 awarded to serious work in amusing areas
Finding that blowing the nose inappropriately could lead to a sinus infection won the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine. | Photo Credit: Mohammad Hosein Safaei/Unsplash On September 3, a dozen people from various countries were declared to be the recipients of the Ig Nobel Prizes for 2026. Some readers may wonder what an Ig […]
What human brain tissue transplanted into mice showed us
A study published in September in Nature by neuroscientist Sergiu Pașca’s group at Stanford University reports an experiment that sounds almost like science fiction. Human brain tissue grown from stem cells was transplanted into mice in which much of the cerebral cortex had been genetically prevented from forming. The transplanted tissue grew into this vacant […]