HEADLINES
- No reviewing 2G verdict rules court
- Odisha to release 27 prisoners to secure the freedom of the abducted MLA and the Italian national
- Pakistan arrests 23 Indian fishermen for entering in to their territorial zone
NATIONAL
NEWS
- Secrets of wild India bags award at international wildlife film festival
- ‘Secrets of Wild India', a three-part series highlighting the diversity of Indian wildlife, recently won the ‘Best Television Series' award at the International Wildlife Film Festival held at Montana in the U.S.A.
- ‘Secrets of Wild India' was commissioned by National Geographic and is currently being shown in India.
- The first was about the grassland ecosystems of Kaziranga with elephants as the main subject.
- The second, ‘Tiger Jungles' was filmed in Tadoba, Maharashtra, and is about the central Indian forests with the tiger as its principal character.
- The third episode, ‘Desert Lions', was filmed in western India, in the arid lands of Gujarat and Rajasthan.
- Lack of school infrastructure makes a mockery of the RTE
- Two years after the ambitious Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 came into being, 95.2 per cent of schools are not yet compliant with the complete set of RTE infrastructure indicators, a civil society survey nationwide shows.
- 93% of teacher candidates failed in the National Teacher Eligibility Test conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education in 2010-11.
- Only 4.8 per cent of government schools have all nine facilities stipulated under the Act; eight of the nine facilities are present in 11.41 per cent schools; approximately one-third of the schools have up to seven facilities and about 30 per cent schools do not have even five facilities.
- One in 10 schools lacks drinking water facilities, 40 per cent schools lack a functional common toilet, and an equal number do not have separate toilets for girls.
- As high as 60 per cent of the schools are not electrified and 50 per cent lack even a ramp for differently-abled children. Only one in every five schools has a computer.
- Thirty-six per cent of all sanctioned teaching posts are vacant, while 6.7 lakh teachers are professionally unqualified and untrained.
- 40 per cent of primary schools have a classroom-student ratio higher than 1:30.
- The government failed to spend 30 per cent of the funds allocated for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
- Indian authorities clearance must for work contract in UAE
- Indians seeking to migrate to the United Arab Emirates for employment can now expect an assured salary package and better work environment with both countries introducing a system under which work contracts of prospective employees will have to be endorsed by Indian authorities.
- The protocol mandates the informed approval by the worker, the employer and the Indian competent authorities of the full terms of the work contract prior to the worker's deployment to the UAE
- It said contract terms and conditions would have to be signed by workers and employers and must be registered with UAE's Ministry of Labour.
- India now poised to have highest 3G connections by 2014
- The GSM Association, the global body of mobile operators, has said 3G mobile connections in India are expected to grow to more than 10 crore by 2014 — the highest in the world -- while India would become the second largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years.
- There are now more than one crore HSPA [3G] connections across the country, and this is expected to grow by 900 per cent, to more than 10 crore million connections in 2014
INTERNATIONAL
- Sudan, south sudan agree on ceasefire
- Sudan and South Sudan have agreed on an immediate ceasefire and securing the border and oil-rich areas during their talks in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
- Sudan and South Sudan are yet to demarcate the border and rivers in many areas.
EDITORIALS,
OPINIONS AND COLUMNS
- An article on the changing trends of chinese diplomacy.
- Editorial on the twin deficits (Current account and fiscal)
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