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‘Jamia University terminated 23 employees from Valmiki community, no money for food’ – emotional video of terminated sanitation employees go viral

OpIndia Staff - 10 January, 2021

Jamia university terminated 23 employees of Valmiki community who had been working at the university for 15 to 20 years

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Kaagaz Scanner: The India-made document scanner app that was praised by PM Modi in his Mann Ki Baat

Anurag - 15 September, 2020

Kaagaz Scanner – A mobile app to scan documents, lauded by PM Modi in Mann Ki Baat

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Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal fact-checks Subramanian Swamy on JEE aspirants issue

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2020

Earlier on Wednesday, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Twitter had claimed that only 8 lakh out of the 18 lakh who had downloaded the JEE admit card actually appeared for the exam.

Government and Policy

India finds a silver lining in coronavirus pandemic as ‘Education Television’ becomes a thing

Anurag - 31 August, 2020

Launched on 10th July 2017, SWAYAM Prabha is a Ministry of Education initiative that provides 32 high-quality educational channels via Direct to Home (DTH) services 24x7.

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New National Education Policy 2020 unveiled by Modi government, reforms aim to make India a ‘global knowledge superpower’

OpIndia Staff - 29 July, 2020

The new national education policy 2020 introduced by Modi govt seeks to reduce the content load in the school education curriculum.

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HRD Minister clears the air about the exclusion of some chapters from CBSE syllabus for current year, calls MSM’s reporting sensationalism

OpIndia Staff - 9 July, 2020

HRD Minister said that news reporter are sensationalizing the removal of chapters from CBSE syllabus due to lockdoown

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Academic loss due to coronavirus: Course load of CBSE curriculum reduced, chapters on ‘secularism’, ‘citizenship’ deleted. Read details

Shashank Bharadwaj - 8 July, 2020

The decision to drop such topics were made after the direction of the HRD ministry which asked the CBSE to reduce the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 by 30 per cent to compensate for the academic loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent closure of schools.

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Supreme Court asks CBSE to consider cancelling the remaining board exams, allot marks based on internal assessment

OpIndia Staff - 17 June, 2020

In the petition, it was mentioned that many professional institutions and schools had cancelled their examinations, including the Delhi University. IITs across the country have also cancelled all the examinations, including the final year because of COVID-19.

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