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1 week ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
India continued its rise on the Human Development Index (HDI), improving its ranking from 133 in 2022 to 130 out of 193 countries in 2023, according to the 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday. The 2025 HDR, titled “A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, linked India’s progress to improvements in health, education, and income.
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1 week ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
India climbed four spots to the 130th position out of 193 countries in the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) for 2023, according to the report titled ‘A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of Artificial Intelligence’ released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday. The country’s HDI score rose from 0.644 in 2022 to 0.685 in 2023, driven by improvements in health, education, and income.
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1 week ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
The ministry of culture has initiated measures to halt the auction of Piprahwa relics, linked to Lord Buddha, scheduled by Sotheby’s Hong Kong. The artifacts, excavated in 1898 from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, include bone fragments, caskets, and offerings. The site is believed to be Kapilavastu, Buddha’s birthplace. Classified as ‘AA’ antiquities under Indian law, the relics are prohibited from sale or export.
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1 week ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
More than two million students appeared for the NEET-UG 2025 on Sunday for admission to undergraduate medical education in colleges across the country. The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted the exam across 5,453 examination centres in 548 cities in India and at 14 international locations. Held in a single shift from 2pm to 5pm, the pen-and-paper exam required 20.8 million candidates to attempt 180 compulsory questions from physics, chemistry, and biology.
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2 weeks ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Friday constituted a fact-finding committee to investigate two consecutive student suicides at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University in Bhubaneswar on February 16 and May 1. The higher education regulator said the panel will examine institutional policies, student welfare compliance, and mental health support systems.
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2 weeks ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
New Delhi: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) declared the results for the Indian School Certificate (ISC) Class 12 and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Class 10 examinations for the year 2025 on Wednesday. The overall pass percentage for the ISC examination stood at 99.02%. A total of 99,551 candidates appeared for the ISC examination, out of which 98,578 students passed.
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2 weeks ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Saubhadra Chatterji |Vrinda Tulsian
The trinity of “talent, temperament and technology” will transform the future of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday as he emphasized on simplifying regulations and fast-tracking approvals to allow the benefits of innovation and research to reach the people. Modi also hailed India’s youth as ‘R&D’—ready and disruptive—and narrated how India is setting new milestones in various sectors.
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2 weeks ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday launched an online platform to report suspicious claims related to the NEET (UG) 2025 medical entrance examination. This initiative follows the controversy surrounding the 2024 NEET-UG exam, which was marred by allegations of a question paper leak and incidents of cheating across several states. In its official release, NTA urged candidates not to fall for fraudulent claims.
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3 weeks ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
India placed the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance earlier this week, as part of a raft of diplomatic measures targeting Pakistan over the terrorist attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people. But discussions recorded in the parliamentary standing committees on external affairs and water resources over the past nine years show that Indian officials and the executive repeatedly expressed frustration with Pakistan’s approach to the treaty, but also said they “cannot exit” the 1960 pact.
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3 weeks ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Vrinda Tulsian
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) condemned the Pahalgam terror attacks which resulted in the deaths of 26 civilians, mostly tourists on Tuesday. “The Commission condemns the dastardly attack on the unarmed and unsuspecting innocent civilians,” the NHRC said in its statement issued on Friday. The commission described terrorism as “one of the biggest causes of human rights violations in the world” and called for accountability for those involved in terrorist activities.
