The day 2 of the WUJA was priceless in terms of the richness of inputs. After a short prayer the First Session saw Fr. Dr. Tim Kesicki SJ, the president of US-CANADA Assistancy giving the Keynote address.
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (C) has been appointed as the head of a panel that is tasked with creating a new education policy by the HRD. file photo.
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (C) has been appointed as the head of a panel that is tasked with creating a new education policy by the HRD. The HRD ministry has appointed a new nine-member panel, headed by space scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, to work on a New Education Policy (NEP), sources said.
The GST (Goods and Services Tax) Council finalised tax rates for services. Education and healthcare have been exempted from the GST regime.
“India has finalised four tax rates that will apply to services including telecoms, insurance, hotels and restaurants under a new sales tax which should be rolled out on July 1,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
India is a miracle. For all its diversity and problems, the country survives and even prospers to some extent.
But these problems do not go away. They are worse, and in some ways getting worst.
There are good reasons why the country has more poor than all of sub-Saharan Africa, and more hungry and illiterate people than any other country despite two decades of rapid growth.
New Delhi, May 9:Educational trusts and societies seeking minority status must first register themselves with the Niti Aayog as NGOs regardless of whether they are seeking government aid or not, according to a little-noticed rule that was activated two months ago.
Today world over there is rise of Nationalism. Be it in the US, or in Europe, Middle East or in Indian Sub Continent, extreme Nationalism on the rise. In India, Hindu Rashtra is the goal of Hindu nationalist politics, which is also called as Hindutva. In contrast to Hinduism, Hindutva is a politics of in the name of Hinduism with Brahmanism as the core of the same. In nutshell Hindutva is a politics based on Brahmanical values of caste and gender hierarchy.
In the Society of Jesus, we have one mission, but many ministries. The mission is summed up in a phrase long associated with our order, Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam ("For the Greater Glory of God"), often abbreviated as AMDG.
In the previous Union Budget, education was listed as one of the ‘nine pillars’ that would transform the country. With this year’s Budget round the corner, we, the educators, are anticipating that the sector will get the attention as well as the financial backing it truly deserves.
The Government of India amended the MCI Act and inserted section 10D. By this amendment, a
national level common examination is made compulsory for admission into undergraduate courses in
medicine viz. MBBS & BDS. Those States which did not wish were exempted from this exam for the
year 2016-17 alone. Government of Tamil Nadu, by virtue of this exemption, admitted students based
on the marks scored in the Higher Secondary Examination for the year 2016-17 for the seats in the
The Jesuit Educators Trienniel is an event held in every after 3 yrars to come together, to discuss, discern and plan out for the future educational ideas as a corporate body in South Asia. This year it happens after the all important GC 36. We expect earnestly the involvement of all the educators of our schools to actively participate in the Triennial 2017, as it is the first Triennial after the GC 36. It is in the New Jesuit University, and it is the first Triennial under the New JEA Secretary.
