Page 49 - Services Trust News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Rural India: The key to propel education in India Rural India: The key to propel education in India The disruption of education caused by Covid-19 has adversely impacted rural India wherein children could not cope up with the normal owing to lack of adequate digital infrastructural support. advertisement UPDATED: March 6, 2021 01:07 IST Holistic educational growth can provide the much needed economic and social progress India requires to grow in the global arena. (Image courtesy - PTI) HIGHLIGHTS There is a discernable gap between rural and urban education system for which rural children face...

Expendable lives How many more have to die in road accidents in Bangladesh before we act? Only four days ago, four people were killed in Bogura when a bus from Dhaka crushed a CNG-run autorickshaw. Photo: Star When we look at newspaper reports, what is the most common cause of mortality among Bangladeshis that we find? According to reports published in The Daily Star, road accidents killed at least 4,284 people and injured 9,112 others in 2017, while the figures were 3,412 and 8,572 respectively in 2016. The numbers of accidents and deaths increased by 15.82 percent and 25.56 percent respect...

didn’t step in, the leader said. Last week, the Observer reported the council was in talks with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government to seek permission for a ‘capitalisation directive’ – effectively giving them greater flexibility to use capital funds for day-to-day services. This could mean Slough Borough Council (SBC) may need to sell off some its £100 million-worth of assets in order to fill that £10 million gap in their 2021/22 budget caused by Covid-19 pressures and two one-off repayments. One of those one-off payments includes a tribunal ordering th...

SLOUGH Borough Council has urged to allow them to sell some of their assets in order to fill a £10 million black hole and balance their 2021/22…

Compensation for rape victims and their family members remains elusive in the existing criminal justice system, with a clear mandate absent in the relevant law, say legal experts. On the other hand, a law drawn up to address compensation for victims of violent crimes, including rape, has been in the draft stages for 14 years. Legal experts said the current system has left rape victims and their families to fend for themselves during long, difficult trial proceedings, deprived of state support they desperately need. Take the widely reported case of the five-year-old girl abducted and raped by ...