Education

Civil services aspirants in New Delhi (file photo)

27 questions, 67 candidates, one hearing: UPSC's answer key goes on trial

The Central Administrative Tribunal will hear on October 8 the petitions of 67 aspirants challenging 27 questions in the UPSC Civil Services Prelims 2026 answer key. Many say they missed the cut-off by a whisker; candidates are also demanding a break-up of marks.

5 October 2026 · 2 min read

Students marching during a protest in Paris, France

Education

Closed schools, burning bins: France's student revolt shuts up to 500 lycées

Education minister Edouard Geffray says 400-500 lycées will close on Monday as student protests over crumbling classrooms and teacher shortages spread nationwide. Twenty-four schools have been burned or ransacked, 78 staff injured, and nearly 5,000 teenagers arrested since the unrest began.

5 October 2026 · 2 min read

Empty school classroom with desks and chalkboard

Education

Class 9 students to learn new income-tax slabs in NCERT textbook

A chapter titled "Managing Your Personal Finances" in NCERT's new integrated social science book walks teenagers through slab-wise tax calculations under the post-2023 default regime. The old regime is not mentioned. Director Dinesh Prasad Saklani called it a first for this age group.

1 October 2026 · 2 min read

Children in a village classroom near Coimbatore. From this week, every pupil in Classes 1 to 8 at a government or aided school is entitled to breakfast.

Opinion

A hundred years of feeding children at school

The extension of the breakfast scheme to Class 8 is the newest link in a chain that began in Madras in 1922. Its strength is that no government has broken it. The next step is to measure what children actually eat and learn.

30 September 2026 · 2 min read

Schoolchildren in Tamil Nadu. About 34.64 lakh pupils in Classes 1 to 8 will now receive a free breakfast on school days.

Education

Breakfast now reaches Class 8: 34.64 lakh Tamil Nadu children to be fed before lessons begin

Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay extended the renamed Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme to Classes 6 to 8, adding about 15.30 lakh pupils in 7,537 more schools. The idea of feeding children at school in Madras goes back to a Justice Party leader in 1922.

29 September 2026 · 3 min read