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Saturday, April 4, 2026
TopicIndian engineering students

Topic: Indian engineering students

Hindi engineering courses in MP are just not taking off. Students keep moving to English

AICTE gave permission to 13 government and private colleges to offer engineering degree and diploma courses in Hindi in Madhya Pradesh in 2022. So far, 108 have enrolled.

Hired, but no job: Why some of India’s top IT firms are leaving ‘thousands’ of recruits in limbo

Some tech companies have allegedly delayed onboarding new hires indefinitely, or revoked job offers completely for 'bizarre' reasons. Distressed techies want govt to intervene.

Studying engineering without physics and maths is like a building without foundation

AICTE making maths, physics optional for engineering sounds ‘flexible’ only on paper. Its bridge courses won’t fix the problem.

IITs won’t lose if JEE is postponed. Delhi, Allahabad universities show the way

The main reason being advanced against deferment is that any further delay in conducting the JEE will put IITs at a disadvantage because the number of students will double up.

TalkPoint: Is H1B VISA the only aspiration for Indian engineering students in the US?

Experts weigh in on an NFAP report that shows decline in Indian student applications for graduate-level programmes to the US because of stricter H1B norms.

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No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.