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Progress of Education in Jammu and Kashmir: It's not Mere Enrolment That Matters but Learning and Skills
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Can AI Improve Student Learning? Only if it is Used the Smart Way
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Beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Social Wellbeing, and Lessons From the Bhutan Model
Bhutan's approach does not reject economic growth. Instead, it seeks to balance material progress with social, cultural, environmental and psychological well-being. The country's GNH framework provides a basis for assessing how public policies affect different dimensions of people's lives.
Indian Cricket's Search for a Selector: Despite the Game's Glamour, Few Takers for the Thankless Job
For all the glamour surrounding Indian cricket, the selector remains one of its least celebrated figures. He must look beyond the next headline, the next controversy, and even the next defeat. His finest decisions may never make the headlines. His mistakes certainly will.
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Farmer protests in India: UP might be the deciding ground
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You are only confined by the walls you, foolishly, build yourself
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Lord, Please Save Man From Himself
In the assembly/ mehfil of the world, I do not find human beings
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Nothing lies eternal, friends
Rising Sindh and Balochi nationalism a growing worry for Pakistan
On January 18, 2021, in a massive pro-freedom rally organised in Sann Town in Jamshoro District of Sindh, on the 117th birth anniversary of Ghulam Murtaza Syed, one of the founding fathers of modern Sindh nationalism, protesters raised placards of several world leaders to seek their intervention for the "liberation of Sindh"
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A moment’s ecstasy is worth a hundred years
Share Your Joys, Keep Sorrows To Yourself
Moods are very contagious, indeed
Bengal polls will have national and international implications
The upcoming elections in West Bengal are making heads turn, not only in India but also across the borders
Can one shot of Covishield vaccine protect from COVID?
The Covishield (developed in the UK by Oxford Astra Zeneca) vaccine is 62 percent effective if both the full doses are given four weeks apart and 90 percent effective if the half dose is followed by the full dose
The Trip To Mars
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