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Lack of jobs, poor quality of education, easier loans drive students overseas
March 31, 2023
In January, the University Grants Commission announced that foreign universities can henceforth set up their own campuses in India. The move was projected as a game changer for the Indian education sector, saying that by bringing foreign universities to India, students would no l...
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India needs to stop whining over Jammu & Kashmir
October 11, 2022
In some senses, Pakistan has scored some brownie points against India in rapid succession. On October 4, the United States Ambassador David Blome undertook an unusually high-profile and rare visit to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, meeting with the ‘Prime Minister’...
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Cryptocurrency still under crosshair in India
December 19, 2021
Unlike gold, silver or physical banknotes, a cryptocurrency is a digital form of money in form of a few lines of code. Until now, no Central Bank has issued any cryptocurrency in the world, which are created by using blockchain technology and a cryptography network. The cryptogra...
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Need to regulate human invasion of Space
September 14, 2021
For long, it was the purview of the government to decide who would get to the space. But no longer so. Now, almost anyone who can afford to pay for it seems to be getting a ticket. For instance, in the matter of a few weeks, after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, another billionai...
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On its 75th anniversary, UN missing from COVID19 action
September 29, 2020
Two years ago United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres flew into New Delhi to bestow the ‘Champions of the Earth’ award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had won it alongside French President Emmanuel Macron. In 2015, India and France had launched the Internationa...
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International Democracy Day 2020: Lockdown on Indian democracy
September 15, 2020
“I was supposed to receive an award from the state government for one the best professors but suddenly after a Facebook post, my name was withdrawn from the list of nominees,” says an assistant professor at Lucknow University. “All I did was to put up a Facebook post about ...
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Why India should not rush into a free trade deal with UK or EU
September 15, 2020
Last week the UK and Japan announced that they had reached a bilateral free trade agreement that would govern their trade ties from the year 2020 when the UK completed its exit from the European Union and hence also exited the ambit of the EU-Japan trade pact. Both the countries ...
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Seven Indian-Americans in Forbes’ list of wealthiest people in US
September 14, 2020
Sixty-one-year-old Jay Chaudhry, CEO of cybersecurity firm ZScaler, has been named the richest Indian American in the rankings for 2020 released by Forbes magazine, which goes on to list six other Persons of Indian Origin amongst the 400 richest persons in the United States. Inte...
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Indian origin Sonia Syngal named new CEO of Gap Inc
March 11, 2020
Indian-American Sonia Syngal became the new CEO for America’s largest apparel retailer Gap Inc. She is the highest ranked Indian-American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company after Indra Nooyi stepped down as PepsiCo head in 2018.
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Kem chho, planet earth?
February 24, 2020
In the high profile media coverage of the visit of the United States President Donald Trump, that starts today, a number of issues have dominated the headlines. But perhaps the most significant one has escaped the media glare. However, Narendra Modi must ask Trump about climate c...
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Donald Trump comes calling
February 23, 2020
United States President Donald Trump’s visit is expected to be high on hype, but low on content. And that is not too bad for India.
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India, US preparing 2+2 Dialogue next month
November 18, 2019
Key defence pacts are likely to be inked between US and India during the dialogue in Washington next month. A brief report about the significance of the same.
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