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NEW DELHI: India’s school education system has solved much of the “getting children into school” challenge, but is struggling with a tougher problem – keeping them there long enough to complete secondary and higher secondary education.The stress points are now visible higher up the schooling ladder – gross enrolment ratio (GER) drops from 90.9% at primary level to 58.4% at higher secondary, while secondary-stage dropout rate rises sharply to 11.5% from 0.3% at primary, according to a new Niti Aayog report.The report – School Education System in India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap for Quality Enhancement – paints a picture…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kentucky authorities arrested a woman accused of giving her 22-month-old child a tattoo.The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Brook McDaniel, was taken into custody last Monday by Kentucky State Police (KSP), according to the Adair County Regional Jail.During a home visit, investigators said they discovered the family living in “deplorable” conditions and found the toddler with a black dot tattoo on his arm, along with visible redness surrounding the area, local outlet LEX 18 reported, citing a uniform citation.Witnesses told investigators that McDaniel allegedly tattooed the child while she was tattooing herself, the…

BENGALURU: India’s space PSU NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) may soon be headed by a private sector honcho with the selection process for the chairman and managing director (CMD) post having entered the final leg. Sources confirmed to TOI that the next CMD of the Space PSU is expected to be from the private sector with a senior person from US aerospace major Boeing as the front-runner. This will be the first time a non-DoS (Department of Space) person would head Isro’s commercial arm. Since its incorporation in March 2019, NSIL has been headed by Isro insiders — Suma Devaki Ram,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Investigators in California have concluded a search at a home tied to convicted killer Paul Flores in the decades-old disappearance of Kristin Smart, saying they did not recover her remains but will continue analyzing evidence collected at the property.The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that detectives wrapped up their search at a home on East Branch Street in Arroyo Grande, which is linked to the 1996 disappearance of Smart.”We did not recover Kristin Smart,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “Detectives will be evaluating any evidence we have…

NEW DELHI: Government has now allowed venture capital, private equity, infrastructure and pension funds to bid for highway projects under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, marking a paradigm shift since the sector was opened to private players in the early 2000s. So far, only highway developers and construction companies were eligible to bid for such projects.The road transport ministry has modified the bidding conditions for Build-Operate-Transfer (Toll) projects, as part of its efforts to attract greater private investment into the sector. Officials said Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and Foreign Investment Funds (FIFs), with their deep pockets, are expected to bring in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Savannah Guthrie issued a heartbreaking Mother’s Day plea Sunday as the search for her mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues.In an emotional Instagram post, the “Today” co-host shared a video filled with memories of her mom, alongside a message urging the public to help.”Mother, daughter, sister, Nonie — we miss you with every breath. We will never stop looking for you. We will never be at peace until we find you,” Savannah Guthrie wrote. “We need help. Someone knows something that can make the difference.”She added, “Call 1800CALLFBI. You can be anonymous and the…

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways is staring at higher electricity costs after the Supreme Court last week ruled that the national transporter qualifies as a “consumer” under the Electricity Act. As a result, it will remain liable to pay cross-subsidy surcharge (CSS) and additional surcharge while buying electricity through open access for its own consumption, impacting railways’ operating ratio.This is likely to increase railways’ power procurement expenses. It had argued that railways should not be treated as a conventional consumer because it distributes electricity across its vast operational network. However, SC rejected this contention and clarified that railways purchases electricity through…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A sea of police officers paid tribute to a fallen Chicago cop allegedly killed by a man with a decade-long criminal record who was free on pretrial release at the time of the shooting.About 2,000 police officers, elected officials and law enforcement gathered Friday for the funeral of Chicago Police Department Officer John Bartholomew, who was allegedly killed by Alphanso Talley, 26, a man free on pretrial release at the time of the April 25 shooting. Bartholomew’s partner, Officer Nelson Crespo, was also allegedly shot by Talley at Swedish Hospital on Chicago’s North…

NEW DELHI: A light-hearted exchange between Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and a mutual fund distributor who described himself as a long-time BJP supporter has gone viral on social media, drawing widespread reactions from users across the political spectrum.The interaction began after X user Muthukrishnan Dhandapani claimed in a detailed post that Gandhi had been his client for mutual fund investments since 2013, when the Congress-led UPA government was in power.Dhandapani, whose X bio identifies him as an AMFI-registered mutual fund distributor, said he had consistently supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP publicly between 2014 and 2024, but alleged…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Colorado killer who mocked the court, skipped his own sentencing and forced a judge to order that he be brought in “by any means necessary” now faces spending the rest of his life behind bars.Caesar Lorenzo Wilson, 54, was sentenced to 224 years in prison for the 2024 murder of University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) professor Haleh Abghari, a killing prosecutors say began as a burglary and ended in a brutal stabbing inside her own home.The sentencing capped a case marked by defiance and disturbing behavior.Wilson initially refused to appear…