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The report also says the number of students being enrolled in unrecognised schools has increased from 24,155 to 40,095.

Can learning outcomes be a poll issue in India?

The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2018) covers 596 districts in rural India and a total of 354,944...

19 Jan 2019 12:09 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

Civil-military ties: A major challenge for Imran's govt

The Quaid departed far too early. Since his passing, no civilian government has delivered on its promises.

19 Jan 2019 12:02 AM IST

Union Minister Arun Jaitley said that Congress had no real issue and was hence resorting to manufacturing. (Photo: File)

Budget: Follow convention

A government whose term is ending soon must not saddle its successor with bills it runs up according to its lights.

19 Jan 2019 12:02 AM IST

The SC has agreed to several provisions of the states law on dance bars, including time restrictions and no showering of currency notes on performers, the minister said.

Dance bars more about livelihood than morality

Social activists have noted that a large part of the dancers' income went into educating their children.

19 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

K Chandrasekhar Raos son KT Rana Rao met Reddy in Hyderabad to invite his YSR Congress party to join federal front. (Photo: @trspartyonline | Twitter)

Moves, counter-moves in coalition calculations

Odisha chief minister and Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik has declared that he will go it alone and not joint...

19 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Yoga is the journey from A to B. A, is where you are, B is the finality. Guru, is someone, who has already walked that path and has the experience of finality. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Why should we praise the Lord?

From our experiences of dealing with the empirical world, we are aware of the need for applauding an action well done.

18 Jan 2019 6:54 AM IST

Former US President Jimmy Carter (Photo: AP)

1979: How Afghanistan & Iran changed forever

The plan was to eliminate the Communist parties, which were gaining in influence around President Mohammad Daud in...

18 Jan 2019 5:08 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Disquiet in judiciary

Dismay has been caused in judicial and legal circles by the unusual developments, for which there is no formal...

18 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in the House of Commons in London after losing a vote on her Brexit plan on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)

Deal or not, Brexit is end of globalisation

The truism that no man is an island and not even an island can isolate itself from the world applies to Britain today.

18 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Jair Bolsonaro, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on Sunday, October 28, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Shifting politics poses threat to Brics' future

The nation most likely to rupture Brics is Brazil, under its recently-elected populist President Jair Bolsonaro.

18 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Tuesday was the first time that members of Indias estimated two-million-strong transgender community have been allowed to wade in the water at Kumbh Mela festival. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: A spiritual search

In Islam too the planet moon plays a significant role because of the use of a lunar Islamic calendar to determine the...

17 Jan 2019 1:10 AM IST

Through RTE Act, students from financially weaker sections can enrol in private unaided schools through the 25 per cent of seats reserved for them.

Good news! Learning levels up in govt schools

The ASER data from 2014, 2016 and now 2018 suggest that these trends seem to be changing.

17 Jan 2019 12:22 AM IST