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A view of the Supreme Court of India. File | Photo Credit: S. Subramanium It said students cannot be made to suffer uncertainty in the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis. A Special Bench of the Supreme Court will hear a plea on Friday to cancel the Central Board of Secondary Education and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education exams for Class 12 students due to COVID-19. A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari is scheduled to hear a petition filed by advocate Mamta Sharma. “Issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to cancel the examination for Class 12 and devise an objective methodology to declare the result within a specific time-frame,” Ms. Sharma has urged. ....
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, an official Tokyo Olympics sponsor, called for the Games to be canceled on Wednesday, in the latest sign of opposition less than two months before the opening ceremony. ....
The Rise of Righteous Online Bullies | Opinion Katherine Brodsky , freelance writer On 5/24/21 at 7:00 AM EDT Bullies don t just hang around playgrounds. Nowadays, their preferred stomping grounds are the hallowed halls of social media. Conveniently, once they release their electronic venom, it quickly spreads for thousands if not millions to witness. Whether it s true or not matters very little once released into the wild abyss of the internet becoming nearly impossible to correct. This behavior shuts down conversation, pushes us further apart, alienates and prevents us from solving issues if we were willing to engage in open and honest dialogue. For five years, I and several others volunteered a considerable amount of time maintaining a private Facebook group of 30,000 members. I created this group to offer employment opportunities within the media to women and gender non-conforming individuals. For a time, I even managed a mentorship p ....