Topic: HIgher education ranking
Academic dishonesty is eating away at Pakistan’s higher education. But professors are happy
Quaid-e-Azam University’s department of mechanical engineering was rated better than Oxford in Shanghai Academic Ranking. Just that QAU does not have any engineering department.
IISc Bengaluru and IITs are India’s top institutes for the third year running
Not many changes in govt’s National Institutional Ranking Framework list, Delhi’s AIIMS and Bengaluru's NLSIU are No.1 in new medical and law categories.
On Camera
YourTurn
Modern wars need tech edge. Army’s Integrated Battle Groups will be toothless without it
In the IBGs, third-generation anti-tank and air defence weapons, and loiter ammunition must be available down to unit level.
Asian refiners to ramp up gasoline exports to US as sky-high prices beckon
In Asia, gasoline margins have doubled to more than $33 a barrel since the end of March and have edged above those for diesel, which have eased from a peak in early May.
Defence
India to ink ‘repeat order’ deal for 73,000 SiG 716 rifles from the US
In February 2019, 72,400 SiG 716 rifles of 7.62 x 51mm calibre were contracted from SIG Sauer Inc, USA, under government's 'Buy (Global) category', through fast track procedure.
How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.