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Sunday, July 20, 2025
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Topic: internships

Why flagship PM Internship Scheme is off to a stuttering start with low turnout, high attrition

Despite a lot of initial interest, scheme plagued by hurdles since 1st round launch in October 2024. Corporate affairs ministry makes changes in round two to make scheme more viable.

Pilot project of PM’s internship scheme offers 1.25 lakh jobs in 2024-25; target 1 cr in next 5 yrs

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs said these internships will be at India’s top 500 companies, based on their corporate social responsibility expenditure over the last 3 years.

Each undergrad student will now have to intern for 8-10 weeks, UGC approves guidelines

Guidelines given for research internships, which are mandatory for graduation under NEP. Also required for students who want to exit with certificate or diploma after 1 or 2 years.

BA, BCom, BSc students can do internship with graduation as UGC wants them to be job-ready

UGC’s new guidelines have asked colleges to dedicate at least one full semester to internships and evaluate students on the basis of their internship experience. 

AICTE tells technical colleges to help students complete internships from home

AICTE has told institutions to instruct students to abide by social distancing guidelines and not take up any internship that involves travel or contact with outsiders.

3 lakh Indian interns are to be sent to Japan by 2022. Just 54 have gone so far

The programme, launched in 2017, is supposed to help develop skills among the youth. But govt officials say there’s a lack of interest for a variety of reasons.

How youth activism is kicking unpaid internships to the curb

Displacing the cliché “pay your dues” with the call to “pay your interns” is a significant achievement for a young movement.

On Camera

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.