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Assam reported over 300 new cases for the fifth day on Saturday.

Representational image. | Arun Sankar / AFP The dropout rate in India continues to stump both policymakers and educationists. The Unified District Information System for Education Plus 2019-’20 report released on June 29 does not give us much cause for celebration, especially when you compare it with another document “Education at a glance” put out by the Union Ministry of Education. It has shown marginal difference since 2014-’15 but the pattern remains resolutely fixed. What report says A higher percentage of boys drop out at the primary level than girls (Class 1 ...

In charts: India needs a robust solar power policy to meet its renewable energy targets by 2030 Since the country doesn’t manufacture enough solar modules domestically, it will have to spend billions of dollars over the years to import them. Representational image. | Sam Panthaky/ AFP India is targeting about 450 gigawatts of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 and, of that, a lion’s share – 280 GW (over 60%) – would come from solar. For the next 10 years, around 25 GW of solar energy capacity is needed to be installed every year, to ensure the sun continues...

How can we stop the next pandemic? Experts call for major changes in surveillance, alert systems A new transparent global system should be set up for probing disease outbreaks, empowering the World Health Organization to deploy investigators at short notice and reveal findings, a COVID-19 pandemic review panel said on Wednesday. Social Sharing Thomson Reuters · Posted: May 12, 2021 9:32 AM ET | Last Updated: May 12 A nurse prepares equipment in an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on Feb. 22, 2020. A report from a pane...

Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Getty ... A woman reacts in discomfort after she arrived to receive oxygen for coronavirus patients amid scarcity in New Delhi, India. (JTA) — Nissim Pingle, the head of Mumbai’s Jewish community center, hasn’t left his home since March. That’s when COVID-19 began to overtake India. A second wave of infections has overwhelmed its health system and is producing a daily death toll of at least 4,000. The country is on track to have the world’s highest death toll by far, as stories pile up of people succumbing to the disease because they cannot access oxygen ...