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HRD ministry panel wants Institutes of Eminence to get Rs 1,000 crore to boost research

Amandeep Shukla, HT -
Empowered expert committee says fund should be above general research pool grant and be available to institutions based on their performance.

Teaching in Delhi University could soon become an essential service

Kritika Sharma -
HRD Ministry is looking to examine if DU can be brought under ESMA. If implemented, teachers can face arrest or fine if they participate in protests.

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.
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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Anirudh Kanisetti -
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Zohran Mamdani is an authentic representation of modern India

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Nehru is suddenly back in the news. This time, the BJP could not criticise him

Economy

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Banudas Athreya -
Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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