The government in the National Education Policy said that children in classes 3, 4 and 5 should be given a maximum of two hours of homework per week. For Classes 6 to 8, the homework should be maximum of one hour a day.
Polling is underway in 71 assembly constituencies of Bihar in the first phase of three-phase elections amid tight security and COVID-19 guidelines in place.
The civic body had earlier imposed the 20 per cent water cut in Mumbai from August 5, as there was less than 50 per cent stock in seven lakes.
Yes Bank's follow-on public offer to raise Rs 15,000 crore was subscribed 93 per cent on the final day of bidding. The Follow-On Public Offer (FPO) subscription was 95 per cent after including the anchor investors' portion.
IndiGo on Thursday announced a flexible payment scheme called 'Flex Pay' under which passengers will have to pay only 10 per cent of the total fare amount at the time of booking.
France's economy is on course to shrink over 10 per cent in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the central bank said on Tuesday.
Mizoram has registered a 10 per cent drop in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in 2019-20 fiscal, making it to the second spot in the country after Nagaland. State health minister R Lalthangliana said the IMR has dropped from 15 per cent to 5 per cent (per 1000 live births), citing the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin.
Women are ten per cent more likely than men to feel unsafe on metro trains, and six per cent more likely to feel so on buses, according to a study which may lead to better interventions to bridge the safety gender gap in public transport.
Social media major Facebook is reportedly planning to buy 10 per cent stake in the country's biggest telecom company Reliance Jio.
Equity benchmark sensex hits 10 percent lower circuit, plunging by 26,924 triggering a 45-minute trading freeze as coronavirus-led lockdowns across the world stoked fears of a massive global recession.
Consumer electronics major Panasonic India is looking to increase its marketshare in air-conditioners segment to 10 per cent in the next fiscal from six per cent last year, a senior company official said on Thursday.
Shares of Yes Bank on Tuesday fell over 10 per cent amid reports about difficulty being faced by the lender over a USD 2-billion fundraising plan. The stock dived 10.05 per cent to end at Rs 50.55 on the BSE.
The incident happened just two balls before tea in the 70th over when Ravichandran Ashwin and Co. vociferously made a caught behind appeal against Pavan Deshpande but it was shot down by umpire Nitin Pandit.
Markets regulator Sebi on Friday directed three public sector financial institutions -- LIC, SBI and Bank of Baroda -- to dilute their stakes to below 10 per cent in UTI Asset Management Company (AMC) by December next year.
Indian economy, which till recently was hailed as the fastest-growing major economy, saw the growth rate drop to 5 per cent in April-June 2019 from 8 per cent recorded a year earlier
Similarly, on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the shares closed at Rs 4.20 apiece, up 7.69 per cent. During the day, the stock touched a high of Rs 4.80, up 23.07 per cent. The company added over Rs 1,100 crore to its market capitalisation, which now stands at Rs 12,356.22 crore.
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