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| | Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the White House sometime in February, US President Donald Trump announced late on Monday (Tuesday IST) as he termed the ties between the two countries as “very good” and claimed that India will do the “right thing” on illegal immigration. | | | THE BIG STORY PM Modi to visit US in Feb, announces Trump Trump’s statements came hours after a call with Modi -- one that the White House described as “productive”, and one in which Trump asked India to buy more made-in-America security equipment and move towards a “fair” trading partnership. In an address to Republican lawmakers after the call on Monday, Trump threatened tariffs against India, clubbing it with China and Brazil as countries that “mean the US harm” and exploited the US market. The announcement of the visit — which will make Modi among the last leaders that Joe Biden hosted and among the first leaders Trump will host — and the clear articulation of US demands on trade, defence and immigration point to both the diplomatic opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in the India-US relationship. Read more. | THE BIG QUESTION Are learning in Indian govt schools back to pre-Covid levels? The long shadow cast by the Covid-19 pandemic on educational outcomes may have lifted according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 report released Tuesday, with the hand of a government scheme to improve foundational learning and numeracy (FLN) being clearly visible. According to the report, released by the Pratham Foundation, reading levels among government school students in Class III and V have improved compared to pre-pandemic levels, as measured in the 2018 edition of the report. Those of private school students are better than they were in 2022 (when the impact of the pandemic was still being sharply felt), but still lower than pre-pandemic levels, perhaps because they did not have a targetted initiative like government schools did with the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat programme. To be sure, private school students still did better than their government school peers. Read more. | STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED | | | Photo of the Day Virat at Ranji nets... after 12 years  Virat Kohli heads to training on Tuesday ahead of the Delhi vs Railways Ranji Trophy match. PTI | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | | 
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