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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Topic: IIT

There are just 40 foreign teachers at IITs despite govt’s big push for global faculty

HRD ministry wants higher education institutes like IITs to have 20% international faculty. But the figure is just about 1% at IITs.

This former BJP leader has got more Facebook views than PM Narendra Modi

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

For new IITs, govt sets some ground rules — no swimming pool, food court with public money

New rules say IITs and centrally-funded institutes like NITs must have “smart” classrooms, hostels should have LAN and Wi-Fi facilities.

IIT-Mandi scientists take a leaf from plants to make materials that capture water from fog

The innovation from IIT-Mandi can help tackle the world’s impending water crisis, which already has several areas in its throes.

IIT Indore makes it to top 400 global institutes’ list, IIT Bombay slips in ranking

IISc Bangalore has once again emerged as the topmost institution from India, show Times Higher Education rankings.

Political party by IITians splits over caste concerns

Breakaway group claims people were not connecting to the idea of IITians running a caste-based party.

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

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

Maulana Azad — the scholar-politician who laid out India’s higher education road map

As India’s first education minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad advocated for free and compulsory primary education for all up to the age of 14.

Once again, an IIT Kharagpur grad is bringing his regressive World Hindu Congress to US

Swami Vigyanand, an IIT grad, who had called on Hindutva’s foot-soldiers to carry a trishul and defend Hinduism is organising the Chicago event.

How to be a good Indian wife, an IIT-incubated startup teaches

Called ‘Daughters’ Pride — Beti Mera Abhimaan’, the course is the brainchild of a startup based out of IIT-Banaras Hindu University.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.