A structure in the form of a quartet called the National Curriculum Framework has been established to provide a new and improved educational system in India. The National Curriculum Frameworks, which span four different age ranges from early infancy to maturity, were introduced as a part of the National Education Policy of 2020 (NEP 2020).
If you poison the water to catch fish, the fact that the person who performed the vile task caught fewer fish than others does not penalise the culprit, nor does it remove the toxin from the water. The fact that the BJP caught fewer fish than the Congress in Karnataka should not take attention away from the substantive challenges to democracy that remain in India.
On May 11, 1998, India declared itself a nuclear weapon state by conducting a series of tests in the Thar desert. Under Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi Bhabha, India laid the foundation of an elaborate nuclear science programme in 1948, just a year after its Independence. Prime Minister (PM) Indira Gandhi conducted a peaceful nuclear explosion in May 1974. Yet, India took almost five decades to embrace nuclear weapons. No other country in the nuclear age gestated on its nuclear weapon-making potential for so long.
New Delhi. The Imagindia Institute, a leading think tank, today called upon the world community to discuss immediate arrangements to place Pakistan under the 1945 Trusteeship Council mechanism of the United Nations.
“There is a Shakespearean tragedy unfolding in Pakistan today. Though, as the state of Pakistan continues to melt down, there are also green shoots of an Olive Revolution on the march in Pakistan. Does this portend a Pakistan Spring? And, even if the Olive Revolution succeeds, will it be able to save Pakistan from becoming a failed state, with dangerous implications for its own people, and the world community?
In the wake of unprecedented developments in West Asia especially the demarche and rapprochement by major Gulf powers in recent times, the meeting of National Security Advisers of USA (Jake Sullivan), India (Ajit Doval), and UAE (Sheikh Tahnoun) in Riyadh with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was highly significant for more than one reason.
Monarchy, dictatorship, authoritarianism, and despotism, even of the benevolent kind and as a result of democratic elections, are an affront to people’s struggles over the millennia for sovereignty and freedom. However, I must confess to having mixed feelings at the Coronation of King Charles III.