Enlightened minds would accord highest priority to education and development of the world’s largest child population to transform it into humankind’s biggest resource pool. But Budget 2009-10, presented to Parliament on July 6, indicates that the UPA-2 government and its resuscitated finance minister Pranab Mukherjee can’t think big

With the cash-strapped Central and state governments, who run a combined fiscal deficit of 11-12 percent of GDP ill-positioned to substantially augment bricks-and-mortar education capacity in the forseeable future, online learning aka e-learning has emerged as the great white hope of Indian education

Promoted as the Poona Engineering Class and  Mechanical School in 1854, COEP has since acquired near IIT reputation and is on the threshold of being awarded deemed university status

There’s no dearth of employment opportunities for qualified astronomers in government organisations, research institutes, 40 planetaria across the country, observatories, museums, colleges and universities

In 2008, 400,000 foreign and 900,000 domestic tourists and pilgrims visited Varanasi (formerly Banaras or Kashi) making it the most frequented destination of the Indian subcontinent. For orthodox Hindus, it’s the most favoured place to die and be cremated