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Ranchi: A delegation of the INDIA bloc met Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer K Ravi Kumar and submitted a memorandum alleging that BJP workers were forcing BLOs in several districts to delete names of particular voters through Form-7.The CEO, however, said the SIR of the electoral rolls was a transparent process, and names of eligible voters could not be deleted.”Reports from several districts, including Garhwa, Godda and Chatra, are coming that BJP workers and their booth-level agents (BLAs) are forcing BLOs to delete names of particular voters from the electoral rolls,” JMM general secretary Vinod Kumar Pandey told reporters after meeting…

India has begun to say the right things about early childhood. Earlier this year, the ministry of women and child development called Early Childhood Care and Education a “foundational pillar” of Viksit Bharat @2047. But our budgets still tell a different story.Childcare (Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)India spends less than 0.1% of its GDP on early childhood care and education. In this restricted budget, the country continues to offer poor quality early childcare, losing millions of under five children to compromised developmental potential from poverty and stunting. As India targets a $5 trillion economy, its most critical infrastructure gap is not physical…

As technology reshapes classrooms and the expectations from schools continue to evolve, education leaders are being pushed to rethink how students and teachers prepare for the future. Rustom Kerawalla, Founder Chairman, VIBGYOR Group of Schools, has spent more than two decades in school education, since the first VIBGYOR school was established in Mumbai in 2004. The group now has 41 schools across 15 cities and more than 60,000 students.In an exclusive conversation with ETEducation, Kerawalla reflects on the shifts Indian school education needs to make as the pace of change accelerates, the challenges of maintaining quality and consistency across a…

Tukaram Mundhe, who now heads Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as its Commissioner, has been in the news for his aggressive crackdowns on restaurants and other food establishments. His firm stance against safety and hygiene violations earned him the nickname “real-life Singham” across social media. As his online popularity keeps climbing, even Bollywood has taken notice, with Manoj Bajpayee becoming the latest actor, after Salman Khan, to publicly comment on the FDA chief.Manoj Bajpayee questions why honesty is being celebratedManoj praised Mundhe for approaching his duties with sincerity. At the same time, commenting on the buzz surrounding the officer’s…

Union Minister Piyush Goyal in Tokyo, Japan, during a meeting with business representatives, on August 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: X/@PiyushGoyal India is in negotiations with at least 8 to 9 more groups of countries and individual nations that together account for another $15 trillion of GDP, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday (August 24, 2026).He added that the country’s free trade agreements would eventually cover about 75% of global trade and help position India as a trusted partner in global value chains.India has a large domestic market and it opens its doors to the world with…

Russian drone strikes Ukraine’s SBU security services HQ, Zelenskyy says, as he orders retaliationUkraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has just reported a Russian drone hit the headquarter of the Security Service of Ukraine, SBU, in central Kyiv.In a post on X, he said: “I spoke with the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Oleksandr Poklad. Unfortunately, a Russian drone struck the central building of the Security Service of Ukraine on Volodymyrska Street in Kyiv, across from St. Sophia Cathedral. All emergency services are on the scene. Everyone affected will receive the necessary assistance. The drone was aimed directly at the…

Developments in number theory in the last two weeks illustrate how artificial intelligence is helping advance the frontiers of mathematics, but also raising questions about what mathematics means vis-à-vis humans.The first development is about the Riemann zeta function, a mathematical idea connected to the distribution of prime numbers.The prime numbers, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and so on, are divisible only by 1 and themselves. Scientists have used this property to secure communications and financial transactions, putting prime numbers at the heart of contemporary digital security.Stepping stonesThe Riemann zeta function has many solutions called non-trivial zeroes. The Riemann hypothesis states…

MacKenzie Scott donations to HBCU crosses $1 billion mark MacKenzie Scott has set a new milestone in her philanthropy to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with her latest donations taking her total giving to the institutions to more than $1 billion. The former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who sold about half of her Amazon stake in 2020, has given tens of millions of dollars to individual HBCUs, including a $42 million gift to Elizabeth City State University that pushed her total HBCU donations past the $1 billion mark.MacKenzie Scott donations to HBCU crosses $1 billion markMacKenzie Scott’s…

Following Farage’s difficulties, Labour is also now losing fewer of its 2024 voters to Reform. But the same is true of the Conservatives, whose loss of support to Reform in the polls during this Parliament has always been much greater than that suffered by Labour. Far from suffering from a Burnham bounce, Kemi Badenoch’s party has edged up to 20% in the polls for the first time since last spring.Burnham’s arrival has given Labour new hope. But despite having overtaken Reform in the polls, the new Labour leader still has to prove he can win back the working class pro-Brexit…

Russia’s liberal Yabloko party said Friday that law enforcement authorities in Moscow detained two of its members who are running for seats in the lower-house State Duma, though it was not immediately clear what, if any, charges they face. The press service for Yabloko said Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno and Grigory Grishin were detained separately during the day and taken to local police stations. Their detentions come after another Yabloko candidate, Artyom Snegovsky, was detained Tuesday and charged with “discrediting” the Russian military in social media posts. Snegovsky was later released from police custody. While Russia’s Supreme Court ruled last month to cancel the registration of Yabloko’s federal slate of candidates…