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CBSE responds to backlash, confirms Punjabi will continue in Board Exams

Following massive backlash over the alleged removal of Punjabi as a language option in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) draft scheme for the biannual exam format for Class 10, the board has issued a clarification, reassuring that the language will continue to be offered.

Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 to be announced today

According to British bookmakers, this year's favourites include Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o, French writer Annie Ernaux, Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Canada's Margaret Atwood, and Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid.

Challenges hackneyed bashing

This book is no apologia for Syama Prasad Mookerjee or the Hindu Mahasabha, but a well-balanced narrative... A review

Evokes respect & reflection

In this book, Ann Wroe approaches her subject with charm, sympathy and the lightest of touches… A review