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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicUniversity Grants Commission

Topic: University Grants Commission

IITs, IIMs to be roped in for speedy assessment of educational institutes: Javadekar

PTI -
HRD minister Prakash Javadekar says quality of education should be key parameter for determining the standard of an institute.

Files of 4 institutes that were competing with Jio for ‘eminence’ tag go missing from UGC

Kritika Sharma -
Files not found in safe room at UGC headquarters; they contained applications of four proposed institutes. 

JNU asked by court to admit M.Phil & Ph.D. students who have disability

PTI -
The National Federation of the Blind had challenged JNU's admission policy of 2018-19 saying it was 'unfair'.

Centre moves to make new central universities as good as old

Kritika Sharma -
Push comes after President Kovind called for developing 17 new central universities. Centre begins with sorting infrastructure and faculty issues.

Central universities have over 80 per cent reserved seats for senior faculty lying vacant

Sanya Dhingra -
The problem is starkest in Allahabad and Delhi universities where 98.36 and 93.10 per cent seats reserved for SCs and STs are vaca

How underpaid ad-hoc teachers are keeping Indian universities running

Kritika Sharma -
RTI reveals 33% teaching positions lying vacant across 40 central universities; Allahabad and Delhi universities worst affected

3,000 tech colleges in limbo after govt changes plan to clean up regulatory mess

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
HRD ministry wanted to amend the AICTE Act, but is now backing the proposal to appoint a single regulator for all higher education in the country.
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Opinion

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

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

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

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

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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