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TopicEducational institutes

Topic: Educational institutes

Pune’s rise as a coaching hub: It’s cheaper than Delhi, more ‘human’ than Kota

Laidback Pune is powering India’s coaching economy with surge in big coaching centres as well as local institutes, and huge rush of students.

Narayana Educational Institutions’ Students Secure Top NEET 2025 Ranks

New Delhi: In NEET-UG 2025, students from Narayana Educational Institutions secured leading ranks, including AIR 4, 7, 12, 14, 18, 20, and 35 in...

‘Institutes not political platforms’ — Delhi HC quashes rustication of JNU student on legalities

Court says universities must adhere to proper legal procedure, as it can lead to students going unpunished.

Kota was once a prosperous industrial hub. Now it has just 1 factory left — exam coaching

Jobs as an election issue has deep resonance in Kota, where serial industry closures over the past decades have spawned an army of jobless.

Department-wise hiring in universities grave miscarriage of justice, Modi govt to argue in SC

In review plea, govt to tell SC that department-wise hiring will bring down faculty from reserved categories to zero in some institutions. 

State of sterile mind

The argument that funding a cultural or intellectual institution gives the govt every right to choose who runs it, how and what kind of ideas it produces, is a dangerous one.

On Camera

Rahul Gandhi wants to jail Himanta Sarma but Congress has a Bihar-sized problem in Assam

The Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'

Stocks fall, oil prices climb as Trump issues fresh threat to Iran ahead of his deadline

Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.