Former Congress heavyweight and veteran coal union leader Chandra Shekhar Dubey, alias Dadai Dubey, was arrested today for allegedly misbehaving with Garhwa superintendent of police (SP) Priyadarshi Alok.
Scheme of horizontal reservation of 7.5% seats is in the interest of students from rural areas but this could not be a long-term solution for the government schools to maintain the highest standards and improve upon teaching and learning quality. The state governments should have a pre-NEET/other competitive exam coaching programmes as being done in civil services in some states. The government school reservation quota should be reviewed in a time frame. Quotas are not the solutions to produce good professionals for medical and related jobs.
Each April, the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics – a collaboration of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association and the Mathematical Association of America – sponsors a month-long celebration to increase public appreciation of mathematics and statistics. This year, Anshu Dubey of Argonne National Laboratory was one of the people SIAM highlighted.
The Congress leadership has set up a five-member coordination committee to “keep an eye” on the party’s trade union wing Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC). The committee will be headed by AICC general secretary Tariq Anwar. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, MPs K. Muraleedharan, Rajmani Patel and former MP Udit Raj are its members.
