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Topic: College Admission

Technical colleges likely to see two-three month delay in 2021-22 academic session

Kritika Sharma -
States like Maharashtra haven’t been able to finish their admission counselling for 2020-21 so far. As a result, AICTE expects a delay in the next session.

Refund full fee to students withdrawing admission before 10 November, AICTE tells colleges

Kritika Sharma -
The AICTE allowed technical institutions to deduct no more than Rs 1,000 for processing fee. But a student withdrawing after the deadline will have to pay for that term.  

IIMC asked to revisit its admission criteria based on marks after Supreme Court ruling 

Tarun Krishna -
I&B Secretary Amit Khare says IIMC has been asked to revisit admission norms after SC ruling that said states can’t promote final-year students without holding exams as ordered by UGC.

AICTE slashes 2 lakh seats across engineering, management and pharmacy colleges

Kritika Sharma -
The council said no new engineering colleges will be permitted to open until 2021-22 and colleges have been restricted from adding more seats.

Hollywood actor sent to jail for rigging daughter’s college entrance exam scores

Janelle Lawrence -
'Desperate Housewives' star Felicity Huffman is the first parent to be sentenced in a college admissions scandal that has sparked nationwide outrage.

As JU cancels admission tests, faculty and students protest ‘assault on 40-year-old legacy’

Prerna Chatterjee -
As many as 16 of the JU English department’s 18 teachers have opted out of the admission process in protest.

A guide to surviving and thriving in Delhi University, by Gurmehar Kaur

Gurmehar Kaur -
My first year in a Delhi University college was, of course, stranger than most students’ first year in college.

With soaring marks in class XII boards, is there space for 70 percenters in India’s colleges?

ThePrint Team -
Experts weigh in on the rise in percentages, over the years, across different boards for class XII students and their impact on college admissions.
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Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

Phiroze J Shroff -
If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

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Economy

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

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New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Defence

With Cheetah & Chetak fleets ageing, Army, IAF move to fast-track purchase of 200 light helicopters

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Request for Information issued by govt seeks transfer of technology. This comes as the planned acquisition of 200 Kamov light utility helicopters from Russia remains in limbo.

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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