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SECTOR | 24 May 2025, 01:05PM

How Donald Trump's sanctions threaten Harvard's global appeal and allure

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For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement, offering a spot among the elite at a campus that produces Nobel Prize winners, captains of industry and global leaders. That allure is now in jeopardy. In its intensifying fight with the White House, Harvard was dealt its heaviest blow yet on Thursday, when the government blocked the Ivy League school from enrolling foreign students. The move threatens to undermine Harvard's stature, revenue and appeal among top scholars globally. Even more than the government's USD 2.6 billion in research cuts, the administration's action represents an existential threat for Harvard. The school summed it up in a lawsuit seeking to block the action: Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. Within hours of the decision, the consequences started becoming clear. Belgium's Princess Elisabeth, who just finished her first year in a Harvard graduate programme, is waiting

University of Hyderabad secures 5-cr CSR grant from HAL

Business Line | 24 May 2025, 11:25AM 8 more

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SECTOR | 24 May 2025, 07:25AM

Indian-origin professor Ganesh Thakur to lead Texas' top science academy

Business Standard

Indian-origin professor Ganesh Thakur has been named president of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST), becoming the first University of Houston (UH) faculty member to hold the position. Thakur, a professor of petroleum engineering at UH's Cullen College of Engineering, began his term in February, the university said in a release. He aims to raise the visibility of UH's research and promote collaboration across top institutions in Texas. TAMEST brings together top minds from UH, UT Austin, Texas A&M, and others to tackle real-world challenges, Thakur said. TAMEST includes 350 members of the US National Academies and eight Nobel laureates. Its next annual conference, focused on climate change, will be held in San Antonio in February 2026. Thakur's term runs through 2027, during which he plans to position Houston as a national hub for science and innovation. Ganesh's leadership will bring well-deserved attention to UH's faculty, said Cullen...

Education

SECTOR | 23 May 2025, 07:17PM

JEE Advanced results 2025 are expected to be released soon. Details here

Business Standard

The IIT Kanpur is likely to release the JEE Advanced results 2025 soon at jeeadv.ac.in. Here's all you need to know

Mumbai University Admission 2025: Deadline ends today for UG, PG courses

Business Standard | 23 May 2025, 01:46PM

Education

SECTOR | 23 May 2025, 12:21PM

NCW launches Yashoda AI: First-of-its-kind AI literacy drive for women

Business Standard

/ -- To advance women's AI literacy and digital awareness across India, the launch of Yashoda AIYour AI SAKHI for Shaping Horizons with Digital Awareness took place at Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, on May 22, 2025. This initiative is a key step toward empowering women to contribute meaningfully to a Viksit Bharat driven by technology and inclusion. Led by the National Commission for Women (NCW), the Yashoda AI Abhiyan stands as India's pioneering nationwide effort to empower womenespecially from rural and semi-urban communitieswith essential skills in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and digital safety. More than just a training initiative, this campaign is designed to spark a transformation: it equips women with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the digital world with confidence, fostering digital literacy, safety, and self-reliance. The program goes beyond traditional learning by hosting in-depth discussions on critical issues such as...

Education

SECTOR | 21 May 2025

India lost 18,200 hectares of primary forest in 2024: Global data

Business Standard

India lost 18,200 hectares of primary forest in 2024 compared to 17,700 hectares in 2023, according to the latest data from a global collaboration of over 100 organisations. The data provided by the Global Forest Watch and the University of Maryland showed the country has lost 2.31 million hectares of tree cover since 2001, equivalent to a 7.1 per cent decrease in tree cover during this period and 1.29 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. India lost 3,48,000 hectares of humid primary forest (5.4 per cent) from 2002 to 2024, accounting for 15 per cent of its total tree cover loss during the same period, it stated. The country lost 16,900 hectares of humid primary forest in 2022, 18,300 hectares in 2021, 17,000 hectares in 2020 and 14,500 hectares in 2019, the data showed. The dataset defines primary forests as "mature natural humid tropical forest cover that has not been completely cleared and regrown in recent history". GFW researchers classify Landsat satellite imag

Education

SECTOR | 21 May 2025

Mizoram declared India's first fully literate state, confirms CM Lalduhoma

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On May 20, CM Lalduhoma announced Mizoram as the country's first fully 'literate' state. He said it in presence of Union Minister of State for Education Jayant Chaudhary at a Mizoram University event

Education

SECTOR | 21 May 2025

Trump's tariffs to test unity among allies at G7 finance ministers' summit

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Leading financial officials from the world's richest countries are gathering in a Canadian mountain resort this week for what may prove a contentious meeting in the wake of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. The annual meetings of the Group of 7 finance ministers, known as the G7, are typically congenial and in previous years have produced joint commitments to combat inflation and counter the COVID pandemic. There may be less agreement this year as Trump's tariffs threaten to slow growth in many of the gathered nations, including host Canada, which Trump has also suggested become a potential 51st state. I expect it will be somewhat of a testy conversation among the G7 officials, said Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and former top official at the International Monetary Fund. This is a very difficult period for the relationships among the G7 countries. The Trump administration has reached an initial trade deal with one G7 member, the United Kingdom, and is ..

Education

SECTOR | 20 May 2025

Ashoka University professor Mahmudabad sent to 14-day judicial custody

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Professor Mahmudabad was arrested on Sunday by Delhi Police from his home in Greater Kailash, following a complaint over his social media remarks about Operation Sindoor

Who is Renu Bhatia, Haryana panel chief in Ashoka University row?

Business Standard | 20 May 2025 2 more

Education

SECTOR | 20 May 2025

India needs 5% agri growth yearly to become developed by 2047: Chouhan

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Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said India requires a five per cent annual growth rate in agriculture and allied sectors to become a developed nation by 2047. Chouhan highlighted that foodgrain is grown on 93 per cent of farmland, but the growth is just 1.5 per cent. "We are working towards bridging the yield gap in crops and achieving a national average yield... If we have to make India a developed nation by 2047, agriculture and allied sectors have to grow at 5 per cent annually," he said. He was speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual conference of Vice Chancellors of Agricultural Universities and Directors of ICAR Institutes. The minister expressed confidence that the five per cent annual growth rate is achievable, emphasising that various agricultural institutes play a key role in this endeavour. "Research plays a very important role in increasing agricultural production and reducing costs. Our target is to maintain an annual...

Education

SECTOR | 20 May 2025

IIM Kozhikode terminates MoU with Sabanc University, Turkey

Business Line

The MoU, originally signed in September 2023 for a period of five years, had outlined academic collaboration in the area of student exchange