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The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Tuesday declared results for the civil services examination 2015 and a 22-year-old Delhi girl has topped the exam in her first attempt.

Hailing from Devipora-Mattan village in Anantnag district, 60 km south of Srinagar, Khan, son of a school teacher, says he became interested in joining IAS after Shah Faesal from the Kashmir Valley topped civil services examination in 2009.

Obesity could be contagious as gut bacteria from overweight people spreads to slimmer people, research has found. Scientists believe gut bacteria can lie dormant...

Riyan, 16, of Pulwama, was forced by his parents to live a life of discipline and never allowed him to watch television and participate in extra-curricular activities.

English is the lingua franca of world communication. Despite the fact that today we have a large number of English medium schools in India yet the learning level of the learners in the language is abysmal and needs to be taken up for reforming, refining and improving to meet the requisite global needs and standards. Let’s see how:

As Rollo May puts it ‘depression is the inability to construct a future’. Depression is of major public health importance, in terms of its prevalence and the suffering, dysfunction and economic burden and more common in women. It is estimated by 2020, if current trends for demographic and epidemiological transition continue, the burden of depression will increase to 5.7% of the total burden of disease and it would be the second leading cause of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), second only to ischemic heart disease.

The Information Age has brought with it more widespread access to information in a more complex range of thought and application from varied sources of information (like the Internet, Wikipedia or TV channels). Today’s learner must be taught to discern the difference between truth and its opposite, to separate facts from opinions and theory. Access to the varied new ‘literacies’ for surviving and thriving in this century of rapid change, development and innovation, are increasingly available to some children though sadly, there are many who do not have the means to access its gains.

In ancient times, the Gurukul system was the mainstay of our education system. It produced great spiritual masters and texts, but that system is long forgotten. In the past, religion and values were inextricably intertwined and even today it is our religious organisations that are working relentlessly towards teaching values. However, present day education is not comfortable with bringing religious organisations into our schools. They want a more secular approach based on objective research findings.

At a time when entertainment options are available in abundance, either on the phone, your laptop, desktop, or on the television screen, if not...

Rousseau, in his pioneering treatise on education Emile, argues, “Everything is good as it leaves the hands of God, the author of things; everything degenerates...