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‘No-detention’ scrapping draws mixed responses

The central government’s decision to abolish the ‘no-detention policy’ for classes five and eight has drawn varied responses from school principals and parents in Delhi, where the Directorate of Education had already implemented similar changes for the 2024-25 academic session. ‘No-detention’ scrapping draws mixed responses Under the December 16 notification, students failing these classes will get one chance to retake …

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19 hours, 18 minutes ago

Govt scraps no-detention policy for classes 5 and 8

Hindustan Times

The central government has abolished the no-detention policy for students in classes 5 and 8, allowing schools to hold back students who fail annual examinations. While the policy was originally introduced to reduce dropout rates in elementary education, it faced criticism from educators who argued it compromised academic standards. School heads must maintain detailed records of struggling students and personally …

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1 day, 3 hours ago

No child shall be expelled from school till completion of elementary education: MoE on scrapping ‘no detention policy’

Live Mint

No detention policy: Ministry of Education on Monday decided to scrap 'no detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 students. The centre further announced that no child shall be expelled from any school till completion of elementary education. According to new rules, central government has granted state governments the power to conduct regular examinations for Class 5 and 8 students …

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3 days, 12 hours ago

Incoming Trump White House official blasts Biden’s 'dirty tricks'

Raw Story

A Biden administration move that would complicate Donald Trump's agenda on issues involving transgender athletes and student debt cancellation is drawing fresh scrutiny from incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. President Joe Biden is pulling back on efforts he’s undertaken to provide protections for transgender student-athletes and to erase student loan debt for more than 38 million Americans, The …

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3 days, 13 hours ago

White House scrapping pending regulations on transgender athletes, student debt in bid to slow Trump

LA Times

President Biden’s administration is looking at which rules to finish and which to pull back before the end of his term. President Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first steps in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald …

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3 days, 13 hours ago

Chennai residents, pressure groups ask GCC to scrap proposed waste-to-energy incinerator in Kodungaiyur

New Indian Express

Chennai residents and the Alliance for Incinerator-Free Chennai members submitted a petition to the Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner on Tuesday demanding the scrapping of the proposed Waste-to-Energy incinerator plant in Kodungaiyur. Over 200 residents, civil society organisations and environmentalists endorsed the representation letter, said environmental activists and contributors for Citizen Matters, Vishvaja Sambath and Lokeshwaran ES. According to them, the …

4 days, 3 hours ago

White House starts scrapping pending rules, including student debt cancellation

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first steps in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims. “This isn’t the way I wanted it to end,” …

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6 days, 13 hours ago

Strict asylum measures to be debated, voted on by Dutch Cabinet members on Friday

NL Times

The Cabinet is expected to move ahead with a set of measures put forward by Minister of Asylum and Immigration Marjolein Faber during the regular weekly meeting of ministers on Friday. The issue of asylum has been divisive even within the coalition, dating back to the early days of discussions between the four parties shortly after the November 2023 election. …

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1 week ago

Elon Musk’s wealth jumps by $170bn since election day after he backed Trump with $277m

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Elon Musks’s wealth has …

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Trump considers scrapping car-crash reporting rule opposed by Elon Musk: Report

India Today

The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government's ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems. Among the Tesla crashes NHTSA investigated under the provision were a 2023 fatal accident in …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Zimbabwe’s president once faced the death penalty and is now set to abolish it

Associated Press

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s Senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, a key step in scrapping a law last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago. Amnesty International, which campaigns against the death penalty, urged Mnangagwa to sign the bill into law “without delay” and commute death sentences. Zimbabwe is one of more than …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Education Budget: €748 mil. planned cuts scrapped, partly at expense of Health Budtget

NL Times

The coalition parties and four opposition parties have reached an agreement on scrapping 748 million euros of the planned cuts to the Education budget and where to find that money instead. Specialists will also face cuts to their “excesses” in salaries, CDA leader Henri Bontenbal said on Wednesday evening, after the deal was reached. We can live with this.” He …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Why Pinarayi govt called off SmartCity Kochi deal, and what happens next

India Today

An urban initiative that caught Kerala’s imagination but remained mired in political slugfests has bitten the dust with the Pinarayi Vijayan government scrapping the SmartCity Kochi project. TECOM Investments, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding, has 84 per cent stake in SmartCity Kochi, the remaining 16 per cent being with the state government. “There is no need to provide compensation to …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

UK's aristocratic lawmakers prepare for life after the Lords

Raw Story

UK hereditary lawmaker Richard Fletcher-Vane, better known as Lord Inglewood, will soon no longer commute the few hundred miles from his country house in northwest England to the House of Lords in London -- and he is not happy about it. It is "out of step with modern Britain," government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said in September as he introduced the …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Impact Player

The Hindu

After two seasons of the Impact Player provision being used in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, it was communicated to all the teams in mid-October that convention would be restored in the domestic T20 competition. Among the players taking part in the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, there seems to be consensus that the call to do away with it …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

'I resigned my position': Former DOJ official leaves LA Times over them 'appeasing Trump'

Raw Story

On his Substack platform on Thursday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman announced he has resigned as a contributor to the L.A. Times editorial page in protest over the paper's owner for his unabashed support for Donald Trump. The Times has been in turmoil since billionaire owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong refused to let the editorial …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Speed up support for Tata Steel or jobs will go: FNV and GL-PvdA

Dutch News

The government must make haste with financial support to enable Tata Steel in IJmuiden to comply with emission norms to prevent job losses and the decline of the country’s industrial base, trade union FNV and the GroenLinks-PvdA have told the government. Tata Steel IJmuiden needs billions of euros to make the transition from coal to green hydrogen but negotiations about …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

UK govt winter fuel decision challenged

China Daily

A snow plough clears the snow during Storm Bert, along George Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, November 23, 2024. Married senior citizens Peter and Florence Fanning launched a legal challenge against the Scottish and United Kingdom governments on Wednesday, over their decision to stop helping most retired people with their winter fuel bills. The Fannings' legal challenge, which is being …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

UK govt winter fuel decision challenged

China Daily

A snow plough clears the snow during Storm Bert, along George Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, November 23, 2024. Married senior citizens Peter and Florence Fanning launched a legal challenge against the Scottish and United Kingdom governments on Wednesday, over their decision to stop helping most retired people with their winter fuel bills. The Fannings' legal challenge, which is being …

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3 weeks ago

Musk’s $101bn Tesla pay package again rejected by US judge

Al Jazeera

Judge says Tesla’s ‘unprecedented theories’ do not support argument to reverse previous ruling scrapping pay deal. A judge in the United States has upheld a decision to deny Tesla CEO Elon Musk a multibillion-dollar pay package despite shareholders voting to restore the compensation deal. The decision by a Delaware judge on Monday reaffirmed an earlier ruling to void the pay …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

India scraps windfall tax on petrol-diesel exports, ATF 2 years after it was imposed

Firstpost

The Indian government has announced abolishing the windfall tax on aviation turbine fuel, crude oil, petrol, and diesel, effective immediately. The decision marks the end of a levy introduced on July 1, 2022 The Indian government Monday announced the scrapping of the windfall tax on crude products, aviation turbine fuel, petrol and diesel exports. After it was introduced in July …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

India scraps windfall tax on petrol-diesel exports, ATF 2 years after it was imposed

Firstpost

The Indian government has announced abolishing the windfall tax on aviation turbine fuel, crude oil, petrol, and diesel, effective immediately. The Indian government Monday announced the scrapping of the windfall tax on crude products, aviation turbine fuel, petrol and diesel exports. After it was introduced in July 2022, the windfall tax was revised every 15 days based on international crude …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Mhada considers scrapping 11% reservation for EWS, LIG homes for MP, MLAs

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority is considering cancelling the 11% reservation for elected representatives, state and central government employees, and Mhada employees under the Economically Weaker Section and Low-Income Group categories. Mhada considers scrapping 11% reservation for EWS, LIG homes for MP, MLAs The provision for this reservation, introduced under Mhada rules framed in 1981, has come …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Ex-HC judge to head Sambhal violence probe panel; file report in two months

Hindustan Times

The Uttar Pradesh government late on Thursday night named former Allahabad high court judge Devendra Kumar Arora as the head of a three-member committee to probe the violence that erupted during a survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal on November 24 and left four people dead. Eight plaintiffs, including Supreme Court lawyer Hari Shankar Jain, filed …

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‘No-detention’ scrapping draws mixed responses

Govt scraps no-detention policy for classes 5 and 8

No child shall be expelled from school till completion of elementary education: MoE on scrapping ‘no detention policy’

Incoming Trump White House official blasts Biden’s 'dirty tricks'

White House scrapping pending regulations on transgender athletes, student debt in bid to slow Trump

Chennai residents, pressure groups ask GCC to scrap proposed waste-to-energy incinerator in Kodungaiyur

White House starts scrapping pending rules, including student debt cancellation

Strict asylum measures to be debated, voted on by Dutch Cabinet members on Friday

Elon Musk’s wealth jumps by $170bn since election day after he backed Trump with $277m

Trump considers scrapping car-crash reporting rule opposed by Elon Musk: Report

Zimbabwe’s president once faced the death penalty and is now set to abolish it

Education Budget: €748 mil. planned cuts scrapped, partly at expense of Health Budtget

Why Pinarayi govt called off SmartCity Kochi deal, and what happens next

UK's aristocratic lawmakers prepare for life after the Lords

Impact Player

'I resigned my position': Former DOJ official leaves LA Times over them 'appeasing Trump'

Speed up support for Tata Steel or jobs will go: FNV and GL-PvdA

UK govt winter fuel decision challenged

UK govt winter fuel decision challenged

Musk’s $101bn Tesla pay package again rejected by US judge

India scraps windfall tax on petrol-diesel exports, ATF 2 years after it was imposed

India scraps windfall tax on petrol-diesel exports, ATF 2 years after it was imposed

Mhada considers scrapping 11% reservation for EWS, LIG homes for MP, MLAs

Ex-HC judge to head Sambhal violence probe panel; file report in two months