-MuslimMirror.com New Delhi: 31 Muslim students have cleared Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020. Sadaf Choudhary who ranked 23, has secured the highest rank among Muslim candidates. They constitute 4.07 per cent out of the total 761 successful candidates. The number of successful Muslim candidates has reduced this year in comparison to last year as a total of 42 had cleared the civil services exam in the 2019 batch. Shubham Kumar, an IIT Bombay...
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JNU holds on to second spot in govt ranking of universities -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has topped the education ministry’s ranking under the National Institutional Ranking Framework this year JNU has held on to the second spot in the government’s ranking of universities this year while the Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University have improved their places despite all three facing campus turmoil and government attempts to dilute their character. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has topped the...
More »How ‘uncontrolled, unplanned’ irrigation in northern India affects monsoon rainfall? - Shivani Gupta
-GaonConnection.com Climate researchers have found that excessive irrigation across the northern India is shifting the monsoon rainfall towards the northwestern parts of the country, putting the paddy farmers at an increased risk of crop failure. What is the relationship between irrigation and monsoon rainfall — a researcher explains. A study conducted by climate researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) has found that excessive irrigation in northern India shifts the...
More »RTI data: IITs not following reservation rules for faculty -Priyanka Sahoo
-Hindustan Times None of the 22 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have more than six teachers belonging to the Scheduled Tribes (ST) community, while 18 of them have 10 or less candidates from the Scheduled Castes (SC) category on their faculty rolls. Seven IITs had 10 or less faculty members from the other backward classes (OBC) community. The data was revealed by 22 of the 23 IITs in response to a query...
More »Rote Learning and the Destruction of Creativity -Anurag Mehra
-TheIndiaForum.in Anurag Mehra teaches engineering and policy at IIT Bombay. His policy focus is the interface between technology, culture, and politics. The shallow form of schooling with its emphasis on information kills rather than develops curiosity and creativity, all made worse by the importance given to 'marks' recorded in exams. An overhaul is needed but not one driven by digital delusions. Policymakers seem to have a deep love for the word 'innovation'. The...
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