Within a short span of 14 years, SSPMCOE has succeeded in impacting technical education and industry in the Konkan belt of Maharashtra in a big way

Sadhan Mukherjee is a former journalist and chairman of the Delhi-based Media Features India Pvt. Ltd

The start of the new academic year marks the culmination of a season when parents are obliged to pull every string and use their influence with politicians, bureaucrats, high court judges and even media personnel to put in a word for admission of their wards into the country’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools

A heavy and onerous responsibility of drawing up detailed blueprints for the construction of new towns and cities has devolved upon professionally qualified urban planners

Four years after the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation schema was adopted with surprising alacrity by the Central Board of Secondary Education and introduced in all 14,358 CBSE-affiliated schools, the CCE experiment is floundering in a sea of confusion with school principals and teachers struggling to switch from the traditional examination system

Malala Yousufzai’s birthday (July 12) was declared Malala Day by the United Nations