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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Topic: IIM

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

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

IITs, IIMs to be roped in for speedy assessment of educational institutes: Javadekar

PTI -
HRD minister Prakash Javadekar says quality of education should be key parameter for determining the standard of an institute.

Restless, young India has no connection to IITs & IIMs, but Rahul Gandhi can’t see it

Meghnad S. -
Neither is Rahul Gandhi young nor are his ideas.

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.
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Indo-Pacific security demands a strong India-Japan relationship

Stewart Eldon -
Japan’s technological sophistication align with India’s growing blue-water reach and central geographic position. Together, they can act as a counterweight to the Chinese navy.

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

A city without water is a harbinger of a thirsty planet

Economy

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

Keshav Padmanabhan -
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Defence

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Vaibhav Pant -
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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