Scaling Education: Is GenAI the platform-level shift India was waiting for?

Anagh Prasad | October 25, 2023 9:10 AM

New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Since Benjamin Bloom's seminal study on methods of instruction came out in 1984, the 'Two Sigma Problem' has become one of the most recognizable concepts globally in the theory of education. The famous study alludes to a set of experiments that conclude that one-on-one tutoring results in the average student performing two standard deviations (sigma) above the average from a classroom setting.

PM Modi can't escape accountability by ignoring Manipur, says Cong

IANS | October 24, 2023 5:50 PM

New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday once again slammed the BJP-led Central government over the ethnic violence in Manipur, saying the people of the northeastern state have been watching "how Prime Minister Narendra Modi abandoned the state at a time when his intervention and outreach was needed the most".

Dalai Lama meets team New Zealand ahead of World Cup match

IANS | October 24, 2023 11:09 AM

Dharamsala, Oct 24 (IANS) After Sunday’s match against India, the New Zealand cricket team and their families on Tuesday met His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his residence in McLeodganj, a small and quaint hill station with the snow-clad Dhauladhar range in the background, on the suburbs of Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh .

Oct 22, 1947: The day when Pakistan betrayed and backstabbed Kashmiris

Deepika Bhan | October 22, 2023 3:53 PM

New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) As the world is agitated over the Israel-Hamas-Palestine issue, Kashmiris remember October 22, 1947, as the darkest day in the history of Jammu & Kashmir when Pakistan perpetrated its vile design and got thousands killed to gobble up the independent land, and changed the history in the region.