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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicIndian Universities

Topic: Indian Universities

Modi govt claims good response from foreign faculty to its advanced joint research plan

Mohana Basu -
Over 500 applications have been received under VAJRA scheme since 2017. Last year, 44 foreign faculty worked alongside Indian researchers.

Separate process to rank smaller universities in future, says Javadekar

PTI -
Speaking at the Goa University convocation, Javadekar said education should not just be input-led, but outcome-based.

Modi govt to move bill to skirt SC and allow institution-centric quotas in universities

Neelam Pandey -
The bill, to be tabled in the upcoming winter session, is also meant to allow universities to continue hiring teachers.

Surgical Strike Day a plot to curb student activism or move to instil national pride?

ThePrint Team -
A University Grants Commission (UGC) circular asked varsities and higher education institutions to observe 29 September as Surgical Strike Day. It also suggested a...

Indian universities don’t acknowledge sex, forget sexual harassment

Shubham Jain -
There is a lot Indian universities can do to check sexual harassment, but they don’t

Forget funds crunch, half of India’s universities don’t even utilise 50% of their grants

Kritika Sharma -
Of 162 state universities, 70 have used less than half their central govt grants, with 20 spending less than 30%.

PhD made mandatory for recruitment of university teachers, NET ceases to be sole criterion

PTI -
Master's degree with NET or PhD will continue to be the minimum eligibility criteria for direct recruitment of teachers in colleges.

Indian universities prefer politicians over scientists & engineers when it comes to chairs

Kritika Sharma -
Most universities have only instituted chairs under the names of political leaders, mostly in keeping with the ideology of the party in power at the Centre.
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Air India crash report shows an institutional reform of AAIB and aviation ministry is in order

A K Bhattacharya -
The civil aviation ministry could have recognised the enormity of the Air India crash and prepared the AAIB and its investigating team for its sensitivities.

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

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Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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