The scenes from Gurgaon gave us more than just a picture of one labour protest, police brutality or corporate tyranny. It presented us a microcosm of the new and old Indias. Different rules and realities for different classes of society, says P Sainath.

What is education for, and what is the State's obligation to support it financially? As the Central Advisory Board of Education reviews the legislation introduced in Parliament by the NDA government, Satlaj Dighe provides a snapshot of the direction of public education policy today.

The e-commerce space in India has been growing in leaps and bounds but inchoate rules and dated laws have created ‘grey areas’ that need to be cleared at the earliest. Akshatha M outlines the key issues in the debate.

An independent committee appointed by the state validates and upholds most of the objections raised by civil society against attempted privatisation of water supply in Khandwa. Shripad Dharmadhikary, Rehmat and Gaurav Dwivedi discuss the report.

A remote school with no electricity, in an area full of other institutions that don't fare well. Why does the Swastik school in Godbhanga village in Orissa perform so much better than others in the district? Ranjan K Panda observes that it is led by someone who perseveres, and all its achievements can be traced to this simple fact.

At the Guwahati IOC Refinery, labour is divided between organised and unorganised workers, with social and cultural factors at play too. How do the unions handle complex issues? Is there a workers unity? Sriram Ananthanarayanan digs deeper.

Despite being feted as a huge success, the flagship programme of the government for the universalisation of primary education leaves much to be desired. Ironically, the easy availability of the funds for a supposedly successful scheme may be preventing it from being as productive as it could otherwise be. Kalpana Misra reports.

India is notorious for its abysmal health services leading to very high infant and maternal mortality rates. Ila Pathak provides a glimpse of how much effort it takes to get official health functionaries to perform their assigned duties with a minimal degree of seriousness.

A clear focus on protecting the interests of non-smokers has led to worldwide efforts to ban smoking in all public places, and strongly curtail any exceptions. India too has joined this trend, writes Ramesh Menon.

Bangalore, once the poster-boy of new age India and its development, is now crumbling, having been sorely let down by the administration and politics of the state. As Karnataka heads for polls, Subramaniam Vincent, discusses the prospects and necessary preconditions for change with independent MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised Bengaluru world class infrastructure on the eve of elections in Karnataka, recently. Subramaniam Vincent exposed the farce in a letter to him.

Many teenagers in Mumbai are spending their evenings on the "untiring toil" of tuitions, trying to learn what their teachers should have been teaching them in junior college but don't. This is a system that unthinkingly takes away these kids' leisure time, says Dilip D'Souza.

हाल ही में कंपनी ने घोषणा की थी कि अब 500 सीसी की क्षमता वाले क्लासिक और थंडरबर्ड मॉडल की बिक्री अब नहीं की जाएगी.

इसकी कीमत 40.90 लाख रुपये एक्स-शोरूम से शुरू होती है और 46.54 लाख रुपये तक जाती है.

The pending 29 subjects of the CBSE Board exams will be conducted from July 1 to July 15, 2020, announced ministry of human resource development (MHRD) on Friday. The Class X Board exams for six subjects will be conducted only for the students of North East Delhi which were suspended due to the riots earlier this year. The date sheet will be announced shortly.

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After her address went viral on social media, netizens pointed out the fallacy of such statements and questioned its 'authenticity'.

HDFC was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rallying nearly 5 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, Tech Mahindra, M&M, Reliance Industries and NTPC.

Indian markets opened on positive note taking positive cues from its Asian peers and ahead of U S Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates amid ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The new clause comes as sellers in Asia seek to protect their interests, as prices of some physical crude grades sold in the region have fallen to close to $10 a barrel due to heavy discounts.

The move from Kotak Mahindra comes weeks after the top management voluntarily surrendered 15 per cent of their payments for 2020-21.

Archana Puran Singh's has posted yet another video of her house help, who said that all the family members take part in chores.

This classification tool has already been used to analyse more than 5,000 unique viral genomic sequences, including the 29 novel coronavirus sequences.

The photography workshops by Canon will be hosted online throughout the month of May, and represent a wide variety of photography topics.

According to French ethical hacker Robert Baptiste, Aarogya Setu's code structure could have allowed info of over 90mn users to be exposed to public.

The US state department accused China of colluding with Russia to manipulate social media platforms to spread fake news around coronavirus.

Azhar Attari, a prominent first-class player, confirmed on phone that they were still in Colombo waiting to fly home.

The standard of cricket has gone down, according to Razzaq.

Langer also hoped that white ball team under Aaron Finch will win the World Cup.

However, England are scheduled to tour India in January for a five-Test series, so, it remains to be seen how the scheduling will work out.

On 16 April, CA had announced that it would be standing down its majority of staff from 27 April until the end of the financial year due to the pandemic.

'Typewriter' is a Netflix Original horror series produced by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment. All episodes are available for streaming now.

Last Christmas may not be remembered as one of the great holiday rom-coms – it’s no Love, Actually – but it’s a perfectly satisfying one-time watch.

'1917' is a visually wondrous experience. It’s also emotional and moving in parts. Read our full review of the Hollywood film below.

India look to continue their form as they take on title holders Australia in the FIH Pro League at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium in Bhubaneswar.

Savarkar defined his idea of a Hindu resurgence in political terms, not religious.

PSG were leading Ligue 1 table by 12 points from Marseille when the season was suspended.

Barry Bennell is said to have sexually abused kids when he was working Manchester City as a scout and coach of their 'feeder teams'.

Spain has suspended all sport in March as a precautionary measure against coronavirus pandemic.

Max Verstappen emerged victorious in chaotic German Grand Prix that was punctuated by rain-storms, crashes and Safety Car and Virtual Safety Car interventions.

Ferrari got a dominant front row lockout as Charles Leclerc claimed pole and Sebastian Vettel in second at the Belgian Grand Prix.