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Brick kilns, hot-mix plants and stone crushers have also been shut down In view of high levels of pollution in the Millennium City, the district administration on Thursday announced a slew of measures, including declaring holiday for schools for two days and intensifying public transport. Making an announcement,...
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November 10, 2017 Loknath Das
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The ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) will rank its over 1,000 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV), a first of its kind initiative by the government, with an aim at improving the institutes through holding a competition among them, sources said. The outcome of the initiative, the process of which...
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October 30, 2017 Loknath Das
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“Schools are segregated because white people want them that way. … We won’t fix this problem until we really wrestle with that fact.” That’s what Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine writer and recipient of a prestigious “genius grant,” told me in a recent interview. “Genius grant” is...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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Thousands of learners from several schools in Cape Town have marched to Parliament demanding greater safety at schools. The march follows incidents of gang-related shootings and clashes on the Cape Flats in recent weeks. Learners, members of Equal Education and teacher unions Sadtu and Neptosa took part in the protest....
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for Salon about Michael Moore where I recounted the story of how he became the youngest elected public official in U.S. history. At 18, Moore decided to run for head of his Michigan community school board on the simple platform that he...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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The Uttar Pradesh state government plans to equip all school examination centres with CCTV cameras by December this year to crack down on the use of unfair means by students. “Beginning next academic session, all examinations will be conducted under the watch of cameras. Buildings or premises that...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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