Students of BVB Tirupati contribute 5.6 tonnes of used books for recycling

Students of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sri Venkateswara Vidyalaya, Tirupati, joined the ‘WOW Recycling’ initiative taken up by the Academy of Gandhian Studies, in collaboration with the ITC and contributed 5.6 tonnes of material for recycling. The WOW (Well-being Out of Waste) Recycling program began as part of the ‘Save our Planet’ initiative, coinciding with World…

Sharpening inequality now firmly embedded in nature of country’s economic growth: Congress

Attacking the Centre citing a World Bank report, the Congress on Sunday (April 27, 2025) claimed that sharpening inequality is now firmly embedded in the nature of the country’s economic growth, and asserted there is a compelling need for tax reforms in GST, ending “brazen corporate favouritism” and providing income support for families. Congress general…

W.B. school recruitment crisis: Mamata offers aid to non-teaching staff, but protesters refuse to budge

Staying put: Teachers and non-teaching staff, whose appointments were invalidated by the Supreme Court recently, stage a protest in front of West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) office, in Kolkata. File | Photo Credit: PTI Kolkata The West Bengal government on Saturday offered a monthly honorarium to non-teaching employees of State-run schools and urged them to…