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Azim Premji Foundation to award Rs 30,000 annual scholarship for girls pursuing higher education
Full text linkAzim Premji Scholarship 2025-26: The application process for the 2025-26 cycle will start in September 2025. Girls who have completed their Class 10, 12 from government schools are eligible to apply
Understand every caste-count, not just the broad categories
Full text linkThe caste census matters for what it may uncover: neglected sub-castes hidden within OBC labels, long ignored in policymaking and representation
And the search goes on: Job search and job-finding rates in urban India
Full text linkThe cross-sectional nature of Indian employment surveys limits a true understanding of labour market dynamics. Using innovations in official national-level labour surveys that track urban individuals across four quarters, we study transitions from unemployment to employment - defined as the job-finding rate - to understand whether those seeking employment are able to find suitable work in urban India. Our analysis reveals significant weaknesses in the urban Indian economy over the period 2017 to 2023. On an average, only 17 per cent of unemployed individuals in any quarter find a job in the next quarter. Job-finding rates are the lowest for women, the young and the highly educated. Hazard-rate analyses reveals that the same cohorts take the longest time to find jobs, with a majority remaining unemployed even after four quarters of job search. We demonstrate the impact of the pandemic on urban labour markets in two ways. Not only are job-finding rates significantly lower in the post-lockdown period relative to pre-lockdown, there has also been a shift in the nature of jobs created, with casual work rising and regular wage and self-employment falling post-lockdown. Our analysis has important policy implications for understanding labour market dynamics and for the design of urban employment schemes.
i wonder... rediscovering school science
Full text linkWelcome to our Aug 2025 issue. The theme section of this issue is 'Science in Action'. In this section, we explore ways in which EVS and science concepts and principles from school textbooks can be applied to the real-world of students
A closer look at dark matter production in exponential growth scenarios
Full text linkWe investigate a recently proposed non-thermal mechanism for dark matter production, in which a small initial dark matter (χ) number density undergoes exponential growth through scatterings with bath particles (ϕ) in the early universe (χϕ → χχ). The process ends when the scattering rate becomes Boltzmann suppressed. The analysis, in literature, is performed on the simplifying assumption of the dark matter phase space tracing the equilibrium distribution of either standard model or a hidden sector bath. Owing to the non-thermal nature of the production mechanism, this assumption may not necessarily hold. In this work, we test the validity of this assumption by numerically solving the unintegrated Boltzmann equation for the dark matter distribution. Our results, independent of the initial conditions, show that after exponential growth ceases, the dark matter distribution exhibits equilibrium-like behaviour at low comoving momentum, especially for higher couplings. While full kinetic equilibrium-like behaviour is not reached across all momentum modes, the scaled equilibrium approximation provides reasonable estimates for the dark matter abundance. However, for more accurate results in scenarios where dark matter is not in kinetic equilibrium with the thermal bath or does not have sufficiently strong self-interactions with itself that can lead to thermalization, the full unintegrated Boltzmann equation must be solve
Two Indias: Extreme deprivation and lofty economic goals reveal stark disparities that must be addressed
Full text linkThere are parts of India where people still live in stark deprivation. We must not lose sight of them amid all the talk of artificial intelligence, high-tech medical procedures and fast economic growth. The benefits of growing GDP and technology must reach all
Curriculum framework for early childhood care and education: The Nagaland experience
Full text linkNagaland initiated curriculum reform for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in 2019. This was prior to the release of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and its emphasis
on the early years. This article describes them reasons the State took up this initiative and the process followed
The state’s first face: On-the-ground insights into our Anganwadi worker
Full text linkTucked inside a densely populated low-income settlement , is a oneroom Anganwadi centre that has quietly shaped children’s futures since 1996. At its centre is Shashikala (Name changed), now in her early 50s, who has worked as an Anganwadi worker (AWW) for over three decades. Her day begins with cleaning the centre alongside her helper, preparing meals, comforting toddlers, and meticulously documenting everything from immunisations, nutrition, growth monitoring, stimulation, ration
distribution along with early childhood education. This article traces her journey, not as a one-off story, but as a window into the state of India’s frontline early childhood services. Her everyday labour speaks volumes about how much we ask of Anganwadi workers (AWWs), and how little we give her in return