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Topic: Sanjeev Sanyal

Crisis at Pune’s Gokhale Institute deepens as founding society’s secy arrested on fund misuse charges

Milind Deshmukh's arrest follows complaint filed by the institute’s officiating deputy registrar. This comes days after a controversy over appointment of Sanjeev Sanyal as chancellor.

Hit by returning fire, founding society reinstates Sanjeev Sanyal as Gokhale Institute chancellor

Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune has faced churn since 2024. Sanyal responded to claims made by SIS with examples of ‘suspicious happenings at GIPE campus’.

Sanjeev Sanyal replaced as Gokhale Institute chancellor over ‘no plan of action’ amid slip in rankings

This comes months after former EAC-PM chairperson Bibek Debroy resigned from chancellorship after just 3 months in office, and the controversial removal of V-C Ajit Ranade last September.

Sanjeev Sanyal appointed new chancellor of Pune’s Gokhale Institute after Bibek Debroy’s exit

Sanyal is also a member of the EAC-PM. Debroy, who is chairperson of EAC-PM, resigned from GIPE chancellorship last week amid controversy over removal of institute’s V-C Ajit Ranade.

You can’t ‘wish away’ China, India must balance economic & security considerations, says Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanyal, an economist & member of the Economic Advisory Council to PM, also suggests that if India is to import parts from China, why not allow Chinese companies to manufacture in India.

Blaming outsiders for West Bengal’s decline is not a solution. Change its politics first

If you ever want to witness what brain drain can do to a city, look at Kolkata.

I was an IAS officer for 36 yrs, not a dull moment. Sanjeev Sanyal got civil services wrong

I will challenge anyone and everyone who claims that the civil services don’t offer avenues for growth and innovation.

Sanjeev Sanyal says UPSC is poverty of aspiration. But it’s more about desperation

The most productive years of Indian youth gets wasted preparing for the UPSC. But they didn't create this system; the government did.

‘About serving country’ — IAS officers, aspirants respond after economist calls UPSC prep ‘waste of time’

If you must dream, dream of being Elon Musk or Mukesh Ambani, Sanjeev Sanyal said in an interview on ‘Neon Show’ podcast. The remarks have sparked a debate on the system. 

Sudha Murty, Bibek Debroy, Shankar Mahadevan on govt’s new panel to develop NCERT textbooks, syllabus

19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee was notified by NCERT on 21 July, will use National Curriculum Framework for School Education as ‘guiding roadmap’.

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Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.