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Topic: IIM

Modi govt wants IIMs to study, improve flagship schemes like Swachch Bharat and Jan Arogya

HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has asked all IIMs to select one government scheme, review it and then give recommendations to improve it.

IIT, IIM and Oxford alumni make way into govt as lateral entry specialists

In an announcement Friday, the UPSC named nine lateral entry specialists. ThePrint takes a look at some of the new joint secretaries.

Diversity deficit in IIMs, IITs — just 23 STs and 157 SCs in 9,640 faculty posts

Together SCs, STs and OBCs make up just 9% of total faculty in IITs and 6% in IIMs. Some of the institutes have no SC or ST faculty.  

PM Modi to visit Jammu and Kashmir on 3 February: Ram Madhav 

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said Modi is set to address a mega rally in Jammu & will inaugurate projects worth thousands of crores in J&K next month. 

IIT, AIIMS, IISc faculty slam Indian Science Congress, urge it to promote real science

37 professors from top education institutes demand that the association should be more careful in choosing its speakers in the future.

‘Nation with NaMo’ looks for IIT, IIM grads to drive Modi’s 2019 campaign

Organisation backing Modi, which Trinamool MP Derek O'Brien claimed was Facebook's biggest advertiser, now looking for professionals to drive PM’s 2019 campaign. 

The impact of BJP’s recent defeat on the IIT-IIM corporate class

Modi’s carpet bombing-style rallies would overcome the negative image of the state governments in the elections, they thought.

How IIT Madras’ Make in India defence model is a blueprint for success

Academic institutions of international repute like the IITs should be partners in producing cutting-edge military technologies.

Modi govt wants all engineering, MBA students to talk & dress well like IIT, IIM peers

In first-ever policy meant to boost job prospect, the government also wants campus placements to be mandatory for all technical institutes.

Modi govt wants IIMs, AMU and Jamia to train and modernise madrasa teachers

Plan is at ‘embryonic stage’ but minority affairs ministry hopes project will instil sense of ‘modernity’ among madrasa teachers

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.