The annual NIRF Rankings 2025 arrived this September—four months late, shrouded in rumors that the exercise might be scrapped altogether. For weeks, skeptics, global lobbyists, and their local collaborators whispered that India’s decade-long experiment with homegrown rankings had collapsed. And yet, the NIRF survived. Not just survived, but expanded—marking ten uninterrupted years of a project often derided as bureaucratic, opaque, …
The NCERT’s new Partition modules—one for Classes 6–8 and another for Classes 9–12—released on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas) this August 14, have ignited headlines and debate. By offering a more candid analysis of 1947, they mark a shift in how the tragedy of Partition is taught to schoolchildren. Predictably, the modules have become a political flashpoint. …
After 52 years of unchecked private school fee hikes, Delhi finally stands on the cusp of reform. The passage of the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025 in the Assembly on August 8 marks a turning point in the city’s education landscape. It is a long-overdue attempt to rein in arbitrary fee increases, restore …
The visa and other curbs coupled with the MAGA mandate are bound to have a significant impact on international student enrollment in the U.S. this year. For India, which surpassed China in 2024 as the top sender of international students to the U.S. for the first time since 2009, this is a moment of both achievement and uncertainty. Indian students …
When current Army Chief General Asim Munir alluded to inheriting the legacy of General Zia-ul-Haq in his now-infamous speech, it did more than just raise eyebrows — it triggered alarm bells. It hinted at a return to the ideological straitjacketing of a nation already beleaguered by decades of top-down authoritarianism cloaked in religious righteousness. To many observers, it raised unsettling …
India’s 21st century skilling story, in which skill development reincarnated as a priority sector in the second half of 2000s decade with the setting up of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) in 2008, announcement of the National Skills Policy 2009 and all hyped talks about the importance of skills and models getting 360-degree attention, is still rife in officialdom and …
