Does Modi want to hijack higher education?

'Everything will be decided by the Centre.''Universities will have no autonomy to start a new course or introduce a new syllabus.' IMAGE: With the Higher Education Commission of India Act 2018,......

The case for autonomy in higher education

'Providing funds and autonomy to a few institutions that may not have the intent to excel must not become a case of trying to feed those who are not hungry and starving those who are famished,'......

Al Falah Group chief made Rs 415 crore 'dishonestly': ED

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has secured a 13-day custodial remand for chairperson of the Al Falah group Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, accused of generating over Rs 415 crore 'dishonestly' from......

How Sam Pitroda analyses Indian higher education

Telecommunications icon and entrepreneur Sam Pitroda, who is the chairman of National Knowledge Commission, tasked with building excellence in India's education system to meet the challenges of the......

UGC chairman on plans to improve higher education

University Grants Commission Chairman Sukhadeo Thorat talks on the state of higher education in the country. The Eleventh Five-Year Plan aims at increasing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in......

India rejects IMF view that US tariffs will stay indefinitely, hit growth

IMF’s Article 4 consultation report on India The Indian government has expressed its disagreement with the IMF staff’s ‘baseline’ assumption that the 50 per cent US tariffs on its goods......

Govt to ease investment norms in higher education

Private and foreign corporate investment may soon get to flow into Indian higher education with the government considering a move to reform policy that hinders such financing. Currently, it is......

Why Must We Have 7 I-T Categories?

'The finance minister missed yet another opportunity to simplify the income tax structure in the Budget.''This was an opportune moment to get rid of the old tax system entirely and move fully to......