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Tamil Nadu: Medical Students’ Protest Crosses 50 Days; Admin Shuts University, Denies Food and Water
27 Jan 2021
The students allege that despite being a state government college under the Ministry of Higher Education, the fee of some of the courses are 30 times that of other TN government medical colleges and…
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Rich Got Richer: Covid-19 Spiked Wealth, Gender, Educational, and Health Inequalities
25 Jan 2021
A new Oxfam report Oxfam shows how socioeconomic inequalities rose during the pandemic, where the richest section’s wealth grew exponentially while most Indians reeled from destitution and hunger.
Nikhil Varghese Mathew
Centre-Appointed Panel’s Proposal to Exempt IITs From Reservation in Faculty Posts is Faulty
25 Jan 2021
A cursory perusal of publicly available data shows the proposal, as an effort towards misrepresenting the extent to which higher education Institutions, in general, and the IITs, in particular, are…
Peeyush Sharma
Uttarakhand Order Seeks List of Protesting Teachers and Staff; Salaries Put on Hold
23 Jan 2021
Teachers and staff have been staging sit-in protests for demands, including salaries affected by repeated changes in affiliation of non-government colleges.
Saurav Kumar
Bihar: Once Likened to Cambridge, Koshi College Faces a Crippling Staff Shortage
22 Jan 2021
The acute faculty crunch has affected thousands of students from the college with 35 of the 56 sanctioned posts – nearly 62% – lying vacant.
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP: No Contract Renewal for Employees Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Govt. Issues Notice
20 Jan 2021
Employees under contract in the state say that the move could lead to the closure of the SSA with the decision taking away the source of livelihood of about 1.53 lakh families.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
‘Govt Does Not Care’: West Bengal Para-Teachers’ Protest Demanding Pay Scale Enters Day 20
06 Jan 2021
Despite the state government’s assurance given over a year ago, the para-teachers’ demands for benefits like regular increment and medical allowances have not been met.
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Delhi HC Allows Intervention Applications in Copyright Case Against Sci-Hub, Libgen
06 Jan 2021
The Delhi HC accepted the contention that the suit concerned matters of public importance and that the applicants had the right to be heard before the plea for an injunction by publishing houses was…
Gyan Pathak
Poor Girls must be Provided Special Assistance in Education During Pandemic
26 Dec 2020
Girl children were most affected because of the prevailing bias against the girl child.
Prabir Purkayastha
Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India
26 Dec 2020
Three academic publishers are asking for blocking of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, two websites who provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students.