Such experiences have fuelled calls from student activists and opposition politicians to scrap the NTA altogether. Educationists argue that scrapping the agency would not solve the underlying problem. The NTA needs deep structural reform to address recurring failures, but abolishing it is not the answer, said M Jagadesh Kumar, former chairman of India’s universities regulator….
Indonesia is in the throes of a wildfire catastrophe. Amid a so-called “Super El Niño” that has supercharged local drought conditions, thousands of active fire hotspots are spreading and multiplying across the country, fuelling a transnational haze crisis that is the region’s worst in more than a decade. But what makes Borneo’s fires particularly worrying…
Four decades later, the survivor says the memories of the hijacking remain vivid. Forty years ago, she was a 15-year-old girl travelling alone, returning to the US after a vacation in India. She had no idea that the flight home would become one of the most terrifying experiences of her life- or that the memory…
Dawn Vogel, a Republican county supervisor in rural Iowa, doesn’t have a lot in common with the leading democratic socialists in Congress. But on this bit of policy they agree: Data centers are proliferating across the American landscape too fast. Vogel voted earlier this year for a moratorium that temporarily bans data centers from setting…
Steve Irwin (Photo: Australian Zoo) Steve Irwin, the khaki-clad Australian known to millions as “The Crocodile Hunter,” died at just 44 after being fatally injured by a stingray while filming a documentary off Queensland’s coast. Twenty years ago, on September 4, 2006, the world lost one of its most recognisable wildlife champions.Two decades later, his…
An armed person “lunged” at Amy Acton, Ohio’s Democratic nominee for governor, and injured several people at a fair, a campaign spokesperson said Sunday. Acton and her husband, Eric, “are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured,” said the spokesperson, Addie Bullock. “This…
A Boeing 767-300 cargo plane was landing in Miami after departing from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday when it overran the runway and crashed. The Amazon Prime Air flight struck “multiple vehicles” on the road, and “multiple patients” have been treated, the local fire rescue tells the BBC’s…
North West has never been afraid to experiment with her look. At 13, she’s already developed a style that’s very much her own, and her latest beauty moment is proving once again that she isn’t interested in playing it safe.The teenager recently appeared in a TikTok video sporting a dramatic alternative-inspired look, complete with a…
A second Burning Man festival attendee has died, the festival said Saturday. Craigh Mann, 60, was found dead in his camp in Black Rock City, Nevada, on Saturday at 3 p.m., the festival said. No cause of death was disclosed. “Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the participant’s family, friends, campmates, and all those…
The talks in Kyiv were rich in symbolism. The sight of Donald Trump’s envoys setting foot on Ukrainian soil for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The fact they had to travel by train because they could not risk flying and running the gauntlet of Russian drones – weapons launched on the orders of…
