Sixteen-year-old Pranet Khetan, a class XI student of Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon, has been announced as the National Winner of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025 for his groundbreaking project ‘Paraspeak’, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system which records the impaired or atypical speech of stroke survivors, patients with paralysis, Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, and other neurological disorders and converts it into clear and intelligible speech in real-time. …

A new national study by BarrierBreak, in partnership with the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), has found that a significant number of India’s most visited websites continue to remain inaccessible for people with disabilities. The BB100 State of Digital Accessibility in India 2025 analysed 100 of the country’s most visited websites and identified an average of 116 accessibility errors per homepage. The highest …

The three-day 13th Indian Social Work Conference (ISWC) 2025, hosted at Centurion University’s Bhubaneswar campus, concluded on Nov 9 with a resounding call to preserve the human touch in an increasingly digital world. Organized jointly by Centurion University, the National Association of Professional Social Workers in India (NAPSWI), and the Odisha Professional Social Workers Association (OPSWA), the event brought together …

Across India, the past decade has seen a quiet but unmistakable centralisation of higher education policy — through the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the creation of umbrella regulatory bodies, and expanding ministerial oversight over institutions once defined by their autonomy. The recent controversy at Panjab University (PU) — over the Union Ministry of Education’s now-withdrawn notification restructuring the university’s …

Professor Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, the pioneering computer scientist, visionary educator, and one of the chief architects of computer science education in India, passed away on November 8, 2025, in Bengaluru. He was 92. Born on September 8, 1933, in Erode, Tamil Nadu, Professor Rajaraman’s life traced the remarkable arc of India’s scientific and technological evolution. From the analog computing laboratories of …

Secondary school education has long been recognized as a springboard for transition to higher education and the professional world. However, in the current context, it is increasingly evident that the K–12 education system, shaped by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, will play a decisive role in developing India’s future-ready workforce says Sasmita Mohanty To prepare students for their evolving …