Vidheesha Kuntamalla

The scope of the problem has been significant. In the 2023-24 academic year, nearly 6,000 of the 35,000 available seats across 2,001 recognised private schools remained unfilled, even after multiple rounds of admissions.

The move aims to ensure that administrative hurdles do not deny children access to education. Officials also stressed the need for accurate reporting in PM POSHAN scheme, the government meal programme in schools.

A Delhi court is set to take a decision on August 28 after a plea was filed by Rau's CEO Abhishek Gupta, seeking resumption of classes at the coaching centre.

With little time to be found between landing in Delhi and attending their classes, the three have not had much of a chance to explore the Capital — something they wish to change in the days to come. “We had no money to even travel to Delhi,” says Monisha.

Last month, the Directorate of Education (DoE) issued a show-cause notice to 606 government schools for poor enrollment.

Sasanka Perera, a Lankan cultural anthropologist who taught Sociology at SAU for 13 years, was a founding member of its Sociology department and one of about six foreign faculty on campus.

A third-year civil engineering student at Chandigarh University at some point, now lies in a vegetative state for the last 11 years.

In the last DUSU election in 2023, the president, joint secretary and secretary were from ABVP and an NSUI candidate was elected to the vice-president post

At JNU, joined the Students' Federation of India (SFI) in 1974. He soon joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), and just a year later, found himself resisting the Emergency.

Comrade Sitaram Yechury amar rahe (Long live Comrade Sitaram Yechury) — read a banner in the background with a garlanded photograph of the CPI(M) veteran, a day after his passing.