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Blank mark sheets in Uttar Pradesh leave over 30,000 students in limbo

The students have been issued blank mark sheets for their class X examinations. Now they are unable to enroll in colleges or apply for scholarships.
Ismat Ara
Students under Stress

Namakkal: A Kota in the making?

The erstwhile industrial town in Tamil Nadu is a bustling hub of NEET/JEE coaching institutes now.
Saatvika Radhakrishna
Students under Stress

We don’t need this education

A flawed education system that treats students as numbers, not minds, is taking a toll on adolescent mental health. Do we have a solution? 
Krishna Kumar
Students under Stress

What’s killing our students?

Every day, more than 35 students die by suicide in India, but the causes of these deaths are not easy to find.
Shreevatsa Nevatia
Students under Stress

Editor’s Note: Boycotting hate speech anchors not an attack on press freedom

Media’s role in inciting communalism and violence must be called out.
Vaishna Roy

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Women take selfie in front of the International Institute for Population Sciences at Govandi in Mumbai. 

Suspension of IIPS director sparks allegations of government interference in academic sphere

Academics fear the suspension is part of a government plan to silence K.S. James, who resisted political pressure to manipulate data.
T.K. Rajalakshmi
Historians Romila Thapar and Harbans Mukhia (centre, sitting) delivering a lecture on nationalism at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University campus in March 2016. When life in the country becomes chaotic as a consequence of the decisions taken by its leaders, teachers must give up their impartiality and tell students why such actions are harmful to the nation.

Should teachers share their political opinions with students?

With Prof. Sabyasachi Das resigning from Ashoka University and Karan Sangwan being dismissed from UnAcademy, the debate has reached a boiling point.
Apoorvanand
Students protests at Jadavpur University a day after a first-year student was found dead allegedly due to ragging at the university hostel.

Ragging at Jadavpur University: A dark history of violence and impunity

The death of a first-year student at the university has once again raised questions about the culture of violence at the institution.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
Indian children eat free school lunch at a school in Bodhgaya, Bihar state, India, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. At least 21 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of state capital Patna. (AP Photo/Manish Bhandari)

Where have the children gone? New survey focusses on Bihar’s education crisis

The report reveals government schools in Bihar stare at abysmal pupil attendance and severe teacher shortage.
Frontline News Desk
Security personnel chasing protesters in Kolhapur on June 7. It was courageous of Professor Tejaswini Desai to conduct a class on human values and religious discrimination given the city was still recovering from episodes of communal violence.

Witch-hunt against Tejaswini Desai highlights dangers of being a teacher in India today

Are our classrooms becoming prisons of thought and expression?
Apoorvanand
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