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Design Better Admission Methods Chandrachur Singh For several years now, admissions for undergraduate courses at Delhi University (DU) have seen remarkable cutoffs. For about 10 of the 94 courses in DU’s colleges, the cutoff in the first list this year…
Rajesh Tandon My nephew’s four-year-old daughter Bulbul began her first-ever schooling last year. She had her school bag ready, but nowhere to go? So, she was ‘guided’ by her enthusiastic parents to attend school online? After her first year of…
T K Arun Those who have been calling on the RBI to change tack from growth to fighting inflation completely miss the nuance between different kinds of inflation and the differential responses called for. The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee has…
Amita Singh From awe-inspiring spirituality emanating from the mighty Himalayas to the translucent blue waters of Maldives, South Asia exists as the richest cultural platform on planet earth. This piece of land has the world’s most ornate biodiversity, an assortment…
Aravind Unni and Tikender Singh Panwar The latest avatar of the mission lacks an on-ground understanding of waste management in its early conceptualisation, builds castles on the failures of the SBM 1. On October 1, a day before Gandhi Jayanti, Prime…
T K Arun The most significant political development of the week in India was Mamata Banerjee’s thundering victory in the Bhabanipur by-poll, cementing not just her position as chief minister of West Bengal (she had to become an MLA within…
Anil Trigunayat Friendships are always tested and often events, and incidents become the litmus test of their credibility and dependability especially in the domain of international relations when the verbosity of the diplomatese confronts the real politic. India and Russia…