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Topic: IIM

IAS officers losing their sheen under Modi govt, & where higher education funds are going

Shreyas Sharma -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

IITs, IIMs, NITs have just 3% of total students but get 50% of government funds

Kritika Sharma -
The remaining 97% of students attend 865 educational institutes in the country and get less than half the government funds.

India’s banking revolution fails to reach the poor

Bibhudatta Pradhan -
Pulled into the banking system, villagers have ended up stuck in long queues and struggling with dry ATMs.

Who would have thought being gay is as Indian as the IIT?

Sandip Roy -
20 IITians have petitioned the Supreme Court on behalf of an informal LGBT group. One can just imagine the court saying ‘Et tu IIT? Then fall, 377’.

To make Indian engineers more employable, govt plans to train teachers

Kritika Sharma -
The AICTE has come up with a detailed policy for training teachers in technical institutions like engineering, management and pharmacy colleges.

Panel scraps shortlist for top colleges of India, will assess all 114 applications again

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
Shortlist dropped as changed screening criteria was not being seen as ‘fair’ and prominent institutes were left out.

Former CEC N. Gopalaswami to head committee to choose India’s 20 ‘Institutes of Eminence’

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
Also on board- Harvard’s Prof Tarun Khanna, Houston Univ’s Renu Khator and former IIM Lucknow Director Pritam Singh.

After directors’ protest, IIM boards will now need two-thirds majority to remove them

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
Committee to frame the rules of the new IIM Act decides against granting the directors’ demand to give the govt a say in their removal.

‘Institutes of national importance’ running without chairperson

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
Boards of governors at 15 IIITs, four IIMs, nine IITs are headless as HRD ministry is sitting on appointment files.
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Opinion

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Ritesh Malik -
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Countdown to 2027 has begun. India must pick strategic alliance with US, balance with old friendships

AI can fix India’s reputation as a TB hub

Economy

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

ThePrint Team -
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Defence

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

National Interest

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

Shekhar Gupta -
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.

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