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District collector’s ‘second chance’ initiative helps 47 Dantewada students clear competitive exams

  District collector’s ‘second chance’ initiative helps 47 Dantewada students clear competitive exams Vinit Nandanwar believes in second chances. After all, it took the Dantewada district collector four tries to clear the civil services exam, which convinced him that “it’s important for students to get another opportunity to pursue their dreams”. It’s no surprise then that Nandanwar is the brain behind an initiative that has helped 47 students from the Maoist-affected Chhattisgarh district clear competitive exams such as JEE Mains, JEE Advance and NEET. As part of a government initiative called ‘Choo Lo Aasman (touch the sky)’ that started in 2011, 80-odd students from government schools are chosen through an exam every year in Dantewada. They are then trained from class 9 to 12 in two ‘Choo Lo Aasman’ campuses — one for boys and another for girls — and provided free schooling, coaching, boarding and food. Yet, the burden of preparing fo...
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Army releases 12 Manipur insurgents after stand-off with women-led mob

  Clashes first broke out on May 3 after a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. (AP Photo) Listen to this article Army releases 12 Manipur insurgents after stand-off with women-led mob The Indian Army released 12 cadres of banned insurgent group Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), who were apprehended in a village in the Imphal East district of Manipur Saturday afternoon, after a stand-off with a women-led mob of local residents. According to Army inputs, one of the 12 cadres had been identified as the self-styled Lt Col Moirangthem Tamba alias Uttam, the “mastermind” of a 2015 ambush on a convoy of 6 Dogra Regiment in which 20 soldiers had been killed. KYKL is a Meitei insurgent group formed in 1994 and is listed as a banned terrorist organisation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to an Army spokesperson, the ...
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