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Sukrita Baruah
Sukrita is a reporter based in Guwahati, covering India's North East for The Indian Express. She was earlier a correspondent covering the education beat for The Indian Express in Delhi. She tweets at @BaruahSukrita
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Rajnath in Arunachal: Indian Army can face any challenge on border
January 03, 2023 18:36 IST
He made the remarks while inaugurating a 100-metre-long bridge over the Siyom river, close to the state's northern border with China in Upper Siang district.
Wed, Jan 04, 2023
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December 25, 2022 04:25 IST
The Indian Express tracked 38 students in a Delhi Government school who were far behind their grade level in mathematics after the COVID-19 pandemic. Six months down, a report card
Mon, Dec 26, 2022
Snack breaks for school students as Delhi govt plans health interventions
December 21, 2022 05:20 IST
As part of the interventions, school timetables will be restructured with a “mini snack break” two-and-a-half hours before the lunch break.
Wed, Dec 21, 2022
Set up nearly a century ago, how Raisina Bengali School catered to a new population in a new capital
December 17, 2022 17:24 IST
The school was established on January 2, 1925 and is a government-aided school.
Sat, Dec 17, 2022
10 yrs after Dec 16 gangrape, victim’s mother says nothing has changed: ‘Mindset that girls are playthings remains’
December 16, 2022 18:27 IST
Ten years ago, on December 16, 2012, her daughter, a 23-year- old physiotherapy student, was brutally raped by six men in a moving charter bus in Delhi and died 13 days later.
Fri, Dec 16, 2022
Outsiders behind ‘casteist’ graffiti in JNU, mulling smart cards for entry: V-C
December 12, 2022 16:46 IST
On December 1, the doors of the chamber offices of four teachers in JNU’s School of International Studies were found spray painted with the words “Go back to shakha” while graffiti stating “Brahmin Bharat chhodo” and “Brahmo-Baniyas, we are coming for you” was found on the walls of the nearby School of Languages-II building.
Tue, Dec 13, 2022
Delhi’s new outreach programme: Linking over 200 government schools with anganwadi centres
December 12, 2022 09:02 IST
There are 209 Sarvodaya Vidyalayas run by the Directorate of Education which have nursery classes and as part of this programme, each school has been linked with two neighbouring anganwadi centres each.
Mon, Dec 12, 2022
Delhi MCD election results: AAP wins civic body polls, ends BJP’s 15-year run
December 08, 2022 04:00 IST
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s party won 134 of 250 wards, while the BJP got 104, and the Congress came a distant third with just nine.
Thu, Dec 08, 2022
In 10 seats with highest turnout, poorer areas, AAP took home 3
December 08, 2022 03:26 IST
While AAP has the highest total vote share and took a majority of the wards in the municipal polls, it won in only three of these ten wards — Bhati and Kanjhawala, in which the BJP had won in 2017, and Nand Nagri, which the Congress had won in 2017.
Thu, Dec 08, 2022
For Delhi BJP, a silver lining: Fewer seats but larger vote share as compared to 2017
December 07, 2022 15:56 IST
As of 3 pm, the AAP's vote share in the municipal polls stood at 42%, well above its 2017 MCD poll vote share of 26%. This increase is along expected lines, given that it eventually won 134 of 250 seats this year, after winning just 48 out of 272 seats in the last elections.
Wed, Dec 07, 2022
MCD Election Results Highlights: Nadda accuses Delhi govt of denying money to BJP-led MCD for healthcare, education
December 07, 2022 07:08 IST
MCD Election Results Highlights : With 250 wards in the MCD, the AAP won 134 while the BJP won 104, the Congress 9 and others 3.
Thu, Dec 08, 2022
DU seeks nod from education ministry to spend unused funds
December 05, 2022 20:25 IST
Last month, the university wrote to the Ministry of Education’s Department of Higher Education to grant “special permission to utilise the unspent balance along with accrued interest to the University of Delhi” which amounts to Rs 322.26 crore.
Tue, Dec 06, 2022
‘Our strategy is to be international…We are trying to develop more partnerships’: Sciences Po administration on expansion in India
December 05, 2022 15:21 IST
International students constitute 50 per cent of the Paris-based public university’s strength.
Mon, Dec 12, 2022
MCD polls: Sanitation to toilets, here’s what women voted for
December 05, 2022 05:35 IST
Women in different parts of Delhi expressed different concerns that influenced their votes in the MCD election.
Wed, Dec 07, 2022
JNU teacher whose office was vandalised speaks: ‘I am connected with RSS… Left thinks whatever they say is correct’
December 02, 2022 20:28 IST
On Thursday morning, the doors of the chamber offices of four teachers in JNU’s School of International Studies were found spray painted with the words “Go back to shakha”,
Sat, Dec 03, 2022
MCD polls: Which way is the wind blowing in wards with AAP councillors?
December 01, 2022 09:08 IST
In 2017, AAP’s Jitendra Kumar won from Sangam Vihar C with a massive 52.11% vote share. In that part of Asia’s largest unauthorised colony, several residents say that a lot of “good work” has happened in the area.
Thu, Dec 01, 2022
Toilets, clean drinking water: What residents of unauthorised colony in North Delhi want from a new MCD
November 27, 2022 20:59 IST
The long-standing problems of the Wazirpur Industrial Area is reflected in scepticism in the residents.
Mon, Nov 28, 2022
BJP president Nadda takes swipe at AAP: ‘Opened massage centre in jail, made rapist a therapist’
November 27, 2022 16:11 IST
Several senior BJP leaders including Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Hardeep Singh Puri and Giriraj Singh led multiple door-to-door campaigns and public meetings across different parts of the city.
Mon, Nov 28, 2022JNU has applied for Institute of Eminence status: V-C
November 25, 2022 02:54 IST
Pandit said the university is emphasising that it will not tolerate violence by students. Earlier this month, the university had seen a clash between two groups of students following which the Delhi police registered two FIRs against two students.
Sat, Nov 26, 2022
With mega event in Delhi, Assam govt pushes for national recognition to 17th century general
November 23, 2022 18:49 IST
Three days of these celebrations were kicked off in the national capital Wednesday with Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurating an exhibition on Barphukan and the Ahom Dynasty with artefacts from late medieval Assam in Vigyan Bhawan.
Thu, Nov 24, 2022
‘Don’t vote for those who stop work, vote for those who work’: CM Kejriwal at MCD poll campaign in Paharganj
November 20, 2022 17:57 IST
Arvind Kejriwal conducted a ‘jan samvad’ in Paharganj on Sunday morning.
Mon, Nov 21, 2022
On agenda at DU’s Academic Council meeting, CUET for PG admissions
November 20, 2022 05:15 IST
Under the existing system at DU, 50% of admissions are done directly for students who did their bachelor’s degrees from the university based on their merit in their qualifying examinations.
Sun, Nov 20, 2022
Yale, Harvard, UC Berkeley- Here’s why top law schools withdrew from US News and World Report rankings
November 19, 2022 14:11 IST
Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and UC Berkeley School of Law have cited flaws in the methodology for analysing the rankings as the reason for pulling out.
Mon, Nov 21, 2022
DU-Stephen’s faceoff escalates after university seeks UGC intervention
November 19, 2022 05:17 IST
On November 15, DU’s Assistant Registrar (Colleges) wrote to the UGC Secretary, seeking the body’s intervention to “preclude any act of defilement of UGC regulations by St Stephen’s College and other colleges as well.”
Sat, Nov 19, 2022
Jamia suspends professor over teachers’ association election
November 18, 2022 07:22 IST
The office order stated that it was decided to dissolve the present Teachers Association and declared the election notification — issued with Gupta’s signature — “as null and void”
Fri, Nov 18, 2022