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State / Union Territory Estimated Total Education Budget School Education Focus & Key Allocations Higher & Technical Education Focus Uttar Pradesh ₹76,000+ crore Primary & Secondary Education, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, PM-SHRI upgrades, digital classroom expansions. University infrastructure, medical education expansion, state research grants. Maharashtra ₹52,000+ crore Zilla Parishad school modernization, STEM/Science kits distribution, teacher training programs. State university grants, technical education, skill-development hubs. Bihar ₹52,000+ crore (~15% of total state budget) Pre-primary ECCE kits, free textbook distribution, teacher recruitment drives, school infrastructure. College infrastructure, student credit card schemes, medical college upgrades. Tamil Nadu ₹44,000+ crore Naan Mudhalvan skill initiatives, smart…

File image. Peru is taking steps to join US President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas initiative, its foreign minister said Friday, just days after conservative President Keiko Fujimori took office. Trump’s anti-cartel alliance is made up of pro-US administrations across Latin America including the governments of Argentina, Ecuador and El Salvador. Member states exchange information and coordinate judicial and security forces to address transnational criminal activity. Fujimori won Peru’s election on a promise to address soaring security concerns, and had already signalled a desire to join the alliance before taking office on Tuesday. “We will continue the progress achieved…

Kamala Harris says she has “not made a decision” on potential 2028 runKamala Harris, who is speaking at the National Urban League conference in Nashville, Tennessee, said that she has “not made a decision” on a potential 2028 presidential run.“I am fully, sincerely, focused on these midterms,” she told the audience.Harris further stressed the importance of “having an agenda that is about turning out the vote in the greatest numbers we have ever seen so that…in this environment where they are cheating, we will be too big to rig.”“It means being ruthless. They are ruthless. We need to be ruthless,…

By Peter Egwuatu Femi Otedola, Chairman of First HoldCo, parent company of First Bank, has bought additional 1.779 billion shares of the company worth N222.209 billion. According to a statement signed by the company’s secretary, Abiola Baruwa, made available to the Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX, yesterday, the shares were acquired through Otedola’s investment vehicle, Calvados Global Services Limited. Specifically, Otedola bought 1,779,094,976 units of FirstHoldco at a price of N124.90 per share. The acquisition increased his shareholding in First HoldCo from 9.99 billion shares to 11.77 billion, added to his indirect stakes his total stake in the company surged from 21.96 percent to…

Like a ghost To test the tool, they had convenient examples: the Neanderthal and Denisovan sequences we’ve already identified in the human genome. If TRACE couldn’t pick those out, it wouldn’t find anything else useful. The development of ancestral recombination graphs is still a work in progress, so the researchers used two different tools to generate them and stuck with the one that produced the best results. The combination produced a very low false discovery rate (less than a quarter of a percent) while having an accuracy of over 90 percent. In another demonstration, the researchers performed the analysis on…

NewsFeedIsraeli settlers vandalised a Palestinian cemetery, smashing stonework marking the graves of deceased Palestinians during a march near the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank. Residents said Israeli forces accompanied the march and fired tear gas at Palestinians.Published On 31 Jul 202631 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, carving out a crater and sending up a plume of dust and rubble that scientists – and sky gazers – are eager to observe.Space tracking expert Bill Gray predicts an impact of 5,400mph (8,700km/h) – seven times the speed of sound – near Einstein Crater on the moon’s sunlit western limb. With the action unfolding in the wee hours of the morning for the US,…

NFL NationJul 31, 2026, 06:00 AM ETCloseNFL Nation is made up of 32 team-specific reporters who cover the NFL year-round across ESPN.com, ESPN television shows, ESPN Radio, ESPN+ and social media platforms. It was established ahead of the 2013 season.Multiple AuthorsWith the start of NFL training camps, the coming month is crucial for late-round picks and undrafted free agents. This is the time for fringe players to climb up the depth charts and prove they deserve to be on the 53-man roster, whether it’s through impressive practices or big performances once preseason games start next week.That got us thinking: Which…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Executioners,” the finale of “Cape Fear,” now streaming on Apple TV. In the final moments of “Cape Fear,” Anna Bowden realizes that she’ll never truly be free of the man who’s been stalking her family.  The Bowden family has defeated Max Cady (Javier Bardem), the ex-convict who blames Anna (Amy Adams) and her husband Tom (Patrick Wilson) for his incarceration, in an epic battle during which he invaded their home, placed Anna and Tom on “trial” for colluding against him and threatened their children Natalie and Zack (Lily Collias and Joe Anders). …

Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, has appointed Prof. Adaoma Igwedibia, a reverend sister, as the Deputy Director of the University’s Advancement Board. The appointment, approved by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ugochukwu Bond Anyaehie, will take effect from August 1, 2026, according to a letter signed by the Registrar, Dr. Chinenye Gloria Okeke. A distinguished academic and administrator, Prof. Igwedibia is a Professor of Literary Pragmatics and Gender Studies in the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, UNIZIK. She previously served as Head of the Department of English Language and Literature and is widely recognised for her contributions to…