Six months after sacking of Sanjay Deshmukh, Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, also chancellor of all state universities, on Friday appointed Dr Suhas Pednekar as the new vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai (MU). Pednekar, a professor of chemistry and principal of Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, has been appointed...
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April 27, 2018 Loknath Das
Universities
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The fight between academia and publishers regarding paywall for academic publications has been around for a long time. Credit: pxhere French universities and research institutes have cancelled their agreements with academic publishing giant SpringerNature and refused to make new ones. They’re saving millions of dollars in subscription costs...
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April 19, 2018 Loknath Das
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its forecast for German economic growth, predicting a healthy 2.5 percent expansion for Europe’s biggest economy this year. FILE PHOTO: A woman carries her shopping bags in downtown Hamburg, Germany, January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo The forecast...
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April 19, 2018 Loknath Das
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Srinagar: Private institutions may now be authorised to take up undergraduate and postgraduate courses which are either not being taught at government institutions or have very low intake capacity in the Kashmir Valley. The state government has constituted a committee to identify the modalities to pave an easy...
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April 19, 2018 Loknath Das
Institutes
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Alex Sonnenwald is an MBA student at Hong Kong’s CUHK Business School Alex Sonnenwald, an MBA student at top-ranked CUHK Business School, is interning in the strategy department at Tink Labs, one of the hottest Internet of Things (IoT) startups in Hong Kong. Having raised over $100 million, Tink...
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April 16, 2018 Loknath Das
MBA
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Shutterstock Thinking about getting your MBA? Here’s the truth. You probably don’t need one. It is possible to launch your own business or get into a new field without an advanced degree. In fact, you’ll be able to do it sooner (and with less debt) without investing 2+ years...
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April 16, 2018 Loknath Das
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