The 2023 assembly elections season kicked off on Wednesday as the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the poll schedule for Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland next month, setting the stage for a fierce political battle in India’s northeast. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. |
THE BIG STORY 2023 election cycle starts with 3 states next month The 2023 assembly elections season kicked off on Wednesday as the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the poll schedule for Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland next month, setting the stage for a fierce political battle in India’s northeast. Voting for assembly elections in Tripura will be held in a single phase on February 16, and in Nagaland and Meghalaya on February 27. The results will be declared on March 2, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar said during a press conference. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is part of the ruling coalition in all three states, which all have 60 seats in the assembly. Read more. |
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THE BIG QUESTION What alarming detail about children’s reading ability has ASER 2022 found? The basic ability of young children to read text dropped to the lowest level since 2012, and for them to complete arithmetic problems to levels last seen in 2014, the latest Annual State of Education Report (ASER) has found, detailing for the first time how the Covid-19 pandemic affected learning among schoolchildren. The report — the survey is usually done once in two years — this year offers the first comparison of learning outcomes from a pre-pandemic period (2018) with how students fared after the two years of heavy Covid-19-related disruptions, which led to education moving online and out of reach for many with limited financial resources. Read more. |
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FROM THE FIELD Oppn leaders share stage, launch joint attack on BJP at KCR’s rally The first mega rally of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Wednesday brought together several prominent opposition leaders, who attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government over a host of issues and gave a call for regime change in next year’s general elections. The Telangana BJP, however, called the rally a “get-together of leaders” whose agenda was nothing but to “spew venom” at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read more. |
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