The Central Board of Secondary Education is yet to decide whether the 2022-23 academic session will remain split into two terms for class 10 and 12 or it will revert to the single board exam pattern, officials said on Friday.Bifurcating the academic session, holding two term-end exams and rationalising the syllabus were part of the…Continue Reading

In America, there is one set of rules, laws and justice for rich white men and another set for everyone else. Donald Trump is living proof of that fact. Despite overwhelming public evidence of his high crimes, it appears likely that the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, will not recommend…Continue Reading

Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead bodies lying in the street. But the U.S. and its allies have waged war in country after country for decades, carving swathes of destruction through cities, towns and villages on a far greater…Continue Reading

If you want to trigger a conservative, just suggest nationalizing the U.S. gas and oil industry. “Venezuela!” they’ll scream hysterically, perhaps adding a few, “Iran!” squeals. (Somehow, they always forget to yell about Norway…) Within minutes they’ll be croaking about that time back in 2008 when Maxine Waters — a Black woman with power and…Continue Reading

A picture taken on September 10, 2008, shows the Moskva, missile cruiser flagship of Russian Black Sea Fleet, entering Sevastopol bay (Vasiliy BATANOV/AFP via Getty Images) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s flagship, the Moskva (Moscow), sank on Thursday hours after Ukrainian resistance fighters bombarded it with multiple anti-ship missiles.…Continue Reading

Opponents of e-cigarettes have long argued for a ban on flavored vape products — which experts say played a critical role in a startling resurgence of underage nicotine addiction. New research just revealed chronic usage of these tantalizing flavors may have also caused a hidden epidemic.  On Tuesday, scientific journal eLife published a study on mice that indicated brain, lung, heart,…Continue Reading

As the MLB lockout raged into March, the very real threat that the celebration scheduled around baseball for Friday could be canceled was not lost on today’s players. Among the various public-relations hits baseball would have absorbed without a resolution to its winter-long labor strife, not being on the field on April 15 — the…Continue Reading

When actress Hayden Panettiere met heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko at a book launch party in Los Angeles in 2009, she was playing Claire Bennet, a cheerleader turned superhero, on the NBC series “Heroes.” Now it’s Wladimir who has become a real-life superhero in his besieged homeland. The 45-year-old, who is also nicknamed “Dr. Steelhammer,”…Continue Reading