As part of the national bureau, Sourav Roy Barman covers education and Opposition parties, while also closely tracking political developments in Northeast India. He tweets @Sourav_RB

April 06, 2023 04:04 IST
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Sat, Apr 08, 2023
April 05, 2023 03:16 IST
According to the proposal under consideration, the cadre will play an important role in addressing the differences in assessment, which results in disparities in scores of board exams, among various state boards and the CBSE.
Tue, Apr 18, 2023
April 04, 2023 07:18 IST
TMC names BJD, YSRCP that stayed away, says time for fence-sitting over; calls made to boycott Census if caste not factored in
Tue, Apr 04, 2023
March 30, 2023 15:01 IST
While the leader of a party attending the event said YSRCP had also been invited, Andhra's ruling party denied it and said it would not attend the event. The BJD also sidestepped questions about an invitation.
Fri, Mar 31, 2023
March 29, 2023 22:36 IST
Delivering the second Dr Rajendra Prasad Memorial Lecture at Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), Dhankhar said that instead of funding such foreign institutions, which attack “India's legitimacy as a nation state and its Constitution”, industrialists should consider pledging financial assistance to the IITs and IIMs so that their “benevolence can be more fruitfully utilised”.
Wed, Mar 29, 2023
March 28, 2023 20:46 IST
The jailing of Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain has forced the Delhi CM to return to a brand of politics in which Modi is marked as the "enemy" in no uncertain terms.
Wed, Mar 29, 2023
March 28, 2023 20:25 IST
The Rajya Sabha Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, has also recommended that the IoE scheme be "realigned" with the National Education Policy, 2020.
Wed, Mar 29, 2023
March 23, 2023 20:48 IST
Party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the government's “efforts to create a chilling effect, a throttling effect, strangulating effect on open, fearless speech relating to public interest will not stop either Rahul Gandhi or the Congress party”.
Fri, Mar 24, 2023
March 22, 2023 20:30 IST
About the Congress, the AAP general secretary says, “We cut into Congress votes more because it doesn't have fire in the belly while the BJP is fighting. We cannot be blamed for the inability of the Congress.”
Thu, Mar 23, 2023
March 20, 2023 19:59 IST
From Parliament talks to House floor to outside, Cong and Opp do a delicate dance shuffling partners; limelight on Rahul is not helping
Tue, Mar 21, 2023
March 20, 2023 15:19 IST
The Opposition leaders also condemned the Delhi Police notice to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his remarks during the Bharat Jodo Yatra on sexual violence against women.
Tue, Mar 21, 2023
March 19, 2023 13:02 IST
Remarks on sexual assault: Rahul sends preliminary reply to police notice
Mon, Mar 20, 2023
March 18, 2023 04:05 IST
BJP insists on apology, Cong for privilege move against PM Modi
Sat, Mar 18, 2023
March 17, 2023 13:52 IST
KC Venugopal, who moved the notice in the Rajya Sabha, says PM’s comments asking why the Gandhis do not use the Nehru surname are “derogatory, insulting, distasteful and defamatory”.
Fri, Mar 17, 2023
March 17, 2023 04:00 IST
Among the serious lapses flagged by the committee in its report, one relates to the allocation of higher educational institutions, which have applied for NAAC accreditation, to DVV partners, which are empanelled by the NAAC through a tendering process.
Sat, Mar 18, 2023
March 16, 2023 15:50 IST
TMC distances itself from JPC demand, hits out at Congress
Fri, Mar 17, 2023
March 13, 2023 03:56 IST
The Department of School Education released the NCF for foundational level (children aged 3-8 years), which emphasises play-based learning at the pre-school and lower primary level, in October 2022. Last week, it released the teaching material prepared on the basis of the NCF.
Fri, Mar 31, 2023
March 10, 2023 16:57 IST
Over the decades, political patronage networks incentivised violence against rivals and the problems were compounded by a demographic shift
Fri, Mar 10, 2023
March 10, 2023 04:25 IST
Dhankhar slams ‘narrative’, says acted after members of panels came to him.
Fri, Mar 10, 2023
March 08, 2023 15:21 IST
The officers are supposed to assist the committees in their work, which includes meetings that are confidential in nature. A senior Rajya Sabha MP said the order was ‘unprecedented’.
Thu, Mar 09, 2023
March 08, 2023 07:12 IST
On March 5, the chairperson of NAAC's executive committee, Bhushan Patwardhan, resigned after repeatedly demanding an independent inquiry into the functioning of the council.
Thu, Mar 09, 2023
March 07, 2023 14:43 IST
The high-power panel had been set up on the demand of BJP ally IPFT after it came to power for the first time in 2018.
Tue, Mar 07, 2023
March 07, 2023 04:00 IST
Lack of action on the report, which was submitted to the University Grants Commission (UGC) in September last year, was flagged by NAAC executive committee chairperson Bhushan Patwardhan in the days leading to his resignation from the post on Sunday.
Tue, Mar 07, 2023
March 06, 2023 04:04 IST
NAAC is an autonomous body under the UGC that assesses and certifies higher educational institutions with gradings as part of accreditation.
Tue, Mar 07, 2023
March 03, 2023 07:08 IST
Sourav Roy Barman writes: BJP, dismissed as a non-entity in North-east less than a decade ago, has become the primary pole of the region's politics
Fri, Mar 03, 2023



