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Topic: UGC

Govt to tweak MPhil & PhD admission rules, now exam will hold more weight than interview

Neelam Pandey -
Under current rules, the exam for admission to MPhil and PhD courses in central universities only serves as a qualifying role for the interview stage.

Diktat for teachers at central universities like JNU & DU: Can’t criticise govt

Kritika Sharma -
University Grants Commission says all educational institutions taking funds from the Central govt will now come under rules that disallow protest.

Studying Mahatma Gandhi is not going to get you a job & Indian students know it

Kritika Sharma -
Ahead of the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary in 2019, data shows dramatic reduction in students pursuing Gandhian studies. But scholars are unperturbed.

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...

Our system considers anything less than rape a ‘frivolous allegation’

Shatakshi Pandey -
To feel safe on campus is the basic right of every Indian student.

Given Left’s grip on colleges, arranging marriages are easier than holding seminars in India

Chandrachur Singh -
The malaise towards Indian higher education has made our railway platforms cleaner and technologically better equipped than classrooms.

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%.

IITs, IIMs, NITs have just 3% of total students but get 50% of government funds

Kritika Sharma -
The remaining 97% of students attend 865 educational institutes in the country and get less than half the government funds.

Appointment of university teachers put on hold as govt attempts to restore reservation

PTI -
The decision comes after the Allahabad High Court had stopped institution-wise reservation, forcing UGC to prescribe making it department specific.

UGC tells universities to put controversial quota system for teachers on hold

Kritika Sharma -
The move to stop the department-wise distribution of quota comes after a meeting of NDA constituents with the PM.  New Delhi: The ministry of human...
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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

D.K. Singh -
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Muslims never held Akbar in high regard. Hindus made him ‘Great’

Bihar voter list revision is not anti-democratic—India can’t let illegals influence polls

Economy

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

Udit Bubna -
SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

Defence

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

National Interest

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

Shekhar Gupta -
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.

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