Certain universities are no longer processing applications coming from Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, UP, Gujarat and J&K citing ‘fraudulent documents’, high dropout rates as reasons.
The enrolment in PhDs jumped 50% between 2011 and 2017, leading UGC to invite proposals for a six-month study to assess the quality of theses in the past decade.
Only two countries — China and India — sent more students to the US in 2017-18 than the previous year. Overall, the US hosts over 1 million foreign students.
Digital sovereignty cannot stop at government cloud systems. It must extend to the networking, CDN, AI, and security layers permeating the entire economy.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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