It was Day One of segregation of waste at source in the city. Although garbage trucks could not return from the Mandur landfill due to heavy rain, garbage tempos and pourakarmikas were on the move acr

The obstacles in enforcing the Right to Education Act (RTE) seem unending. Just when things were beginning to fall into place a new row has broken out over the state government’s decision to give the

Elite schools may be reluctant to open their doors to poor students as required under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, but are some being actively prejudiced against the children they are forced to a

Following the age old practice of trying to circumvent the law, schools which did not enjoy a minority status, have begun vying for it to avoid admitting poor students under the Right to Education (RT

It was on the cards for two years before the government finally insisted on private elite schools making room for children from disadvantaged sections of society. But laying down the law hasn’t really

Union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal has a fight on his hands with IITs refusing to toe his line on holding a single joint entrance examination for all top engineering colleges of th