A two-judge bench has flagged a constitutional conflict between a child’s right to free and compulsory education and minority institutions’ right to autonomy, setting the stage for a landmark review
The Delhi government’s move to have a new Board and to de-affiliate its schools from the internationally reputed CBSE is hard to justify. It will involve additional and avoidable costs too.
The video of a senior official of the Delhi education department has raised the stress over exams. But with various initiatives by the centre to help students in pandemic times, exams can be faced with grit.
A court in Zimbabwe recalled the landmark judgment in the Kesavananda Bharati case and held that compelling schoolchildren to salute the national flag was violative of their right to freedom of religion.
A plea has been filed by Dipika Jagatram Sahani before the Supreme Court, seeking directions to the Centre, all states and Union Territories to forthwith re-open all Anganwadi centres in the country which were closed during the Covid-19 pandemic.