If you work in education policy, you maybe should have seen Donald Trump’s monumental upset coming. I didn’t, and I would guess most other wonks didn’t either. But we all saw populist frustration boil over with the federally coerced Common Core national curriculum standards. Average Americans rejected the Core over ... Read More »
Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States of America early Wednesday morning, in what is being called one of the most stunning upsets in political history. Education policy was largely a second-tier issue during his campaign, which focused instead on issues like national security, trade, and Hillary ... Read More »
Government think tank Niti Aayog has organised the first regional workshop on School Education Quality Index (SEQI) to improve the learning outcomes among school children, the Aayog said today. The workshops on SEQI, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), saw striking evidence on factors that ... Read More »
China’s exports and imports fell more than expected in October, with weak domestic and global demand adding to doubts that a pick-up in economic activity in the world’s largest trading nation can be sustained. October exports fell 7.3 percent from a year earlier, while imports shrank 1.4 percent, official data ... Read More »
India’s gold demand could fall as much as 24 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in seven years due to higher prices and increased smuggling as the government seeks to bring transparency to bullion purchases, the World Gold Council (WGC) said. Lower demand from the world’s No.2 gold consumer ... Read More »
Falling consumer demand and a halving of central bank purchases resulted in a 10 percent drop in gold buying in the third quarter, data from the World Gold Council showed on Tuesday, despite a rise in investment. Added to a 4 percent rise in supply, that pushed the overall quarterly ... Read More »
So picture this scenario: You plug in your phone at the end of the night, it takes all night to charge up to 100% but by lunch the next day it’s already at 3%. So frustrating, right? Well, here’s a solution to this annoying problem. It’s called Yukuma. Yukuma has ... Read More »
Studies have shown that sitting for long periods of time, especially in an 8-hour work day, isn’t good for you. FlexiSpot offers ergonomically sound solutions to a sitting and standing work environment. The FlexiSpot Desktop Workstation offers an easy transition from a comfortable sitting position to a standing one. You ... Read More »
With IT industry making its home in Bangalore, many professionals from all over India are making their homes here and hence, property in Bengaluru is much in demand. While the apartments and flats are the preferred choices for most professionals but more and more people are now looking to buy ... Read More »
Supermarket giant Tesco has suspended some parts of its online banking system after it detected attempts to steal cash from customers’ accounts. It said it spotted “suspicious transactions” on 40,000 accounts over the weekend, with money reportedly taken from about half of them. Tesco has declined to elaborate on what ... Read More »
Index investors can’t seem to get enough of real-estate investment trusts: They collectively hold more than 15% of shares outstanding of several of the largest publicly traded property owners in the U.S., a Wall Street Journal analysis found. Exchange-traded funds specifically held about $61 billion of U.S. and international REITs, ... Read More »
Banks continued to tighten lending standards to commercial real estate loans in the third quarter, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Monday. The Fed survey of senior loan officers of 69 domestic banks and 21 foreign banks found standards were tightened on all types of commercial real estate loans. ... Read More »
