TEACHING JOB SCANDAL

West Bengal Education Minister criticizes Centre for cancelling UGC-NET due to integrity concerns. NEET irregularities under Supreme Court review. CBI to probe. Ministry cancels exam based on cyber threats, promises transparency. Jadavpur University...

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress general secretary, has promised free education up to Class 12 and an allowance for school children in Madhya Pradesh. She also called for a caste census to ensure that Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and tribals receive...

The closed-door meeting is the first in a series of crash-course lessons on AI for lawmakers.

The three-tier system — health sub-centres (SC), primary healthcare centres (PHC) and CHCs — is characterised by paucity and absenteeism. Ensuring that each level of healthcare is staffed will require providing incentives, making it a condition of a...

A bench of Justices Sanjeev Sachdeva and Vikas Mahajan said no ground was made to review the November 11, 2022 order passed by another bench of the high court which had also imposed Rs one lakh costs on the petitioner.

Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced, in his typical, soft-spoken Latin, that he no longer had the strength to run the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic Church that he had steered for eight years through scandal and indifference....

Such a haul didn’t seem possible before the decade began, when Wall Street was the target of a global protest movement and politicians at both ends of the spectrum were seething over bailouts or aiming to break up too-big-to-fail lenders.

From a middle-class boy growing up in South Kolkata’s Naktala neighbourhood to Trinamool Congress secretary general and a minister in the Mamata Banerjee cabinet, Partha Chatterjee’s five-decade career had a chequered upward trajectory. But it appea...

Dozens of rich and powerful parents — actors, doctors, lawyers, real estate developers and private equity wizards — funneled millions of dollars through a private admissions counselor, who conjured fake athletic résumés, doctored test scores and bri...

Mindy Kaling, Eva Longoria will also sit on the board.

The 77-year-old Yale professor beat Murakami and Margaret Atwood.

Pham’s willing embrace of unemployment sets him far apart from the 6,700 former colleagues who lost their jobs last month. He gave notice a week before the first of two large rounds of job cuts eliminated about a quarter of Uber’s workforce.

The likes of Shakespeare may have indulged in it, but the age-old practice of plagiarism haunts academe and its guardians.

In an email interview with ET, New York-based Kasparov shares his views on chess, AI, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Parrikar had reportedly said yesterady anyone speaking against the country must be “taught a lesson” and had referred to anti-national sloganeering at JNU earlier this year.

A govt effort aimed at widening the scale of deceased organ donations inadvertently becomes a stark metaphor of inequality as it could turn government hospitals into donor bases that cater to the affluent.

The saga has provided rich material for discussions of ethics, corporate governance, brand management, entrepreneurship and families at schools.

Can India become a superpower when its doctors may not know surgery, bank personnel may not be good at accounting and police may have bribed for job?

Critical awareness of wonderful creations – or even awareness of their very existence – remains, at best, in specialist, academic and ministry of tourism ghettoes.