India lacks quality academic institutions: Pranab

From surgery and politics to espionage and elephant lore, the fabled university at Takshashila was a banquet for the young men (and women) who went there to learn the arts of life. Salma Mahmud considers its origins and early development At the very ...

Confers doctorate on Afghan President Karzai at LPU Vibha Sharma/TNS Phagwara, May 20 President Pranab Mukherjee today voiced deep concern over the flight of bright young minds from India for better quality higher education abroad and the country's ...

Emphasising the need for more centres of excellence and wider vocational training, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday urged the country's universities to take upon themselves the task of encouraging research in key areas to ensure that the ...

"So, generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" Only one in five Indians polled by the World Values Survey in 2006 agreed that most people could be trusted. In fact, ...

It gives me immense pleasure to be here today for the third Convocation of Nagaland University, a premier centre of higher learning in the north-eastern region. I am privileged to be in this University, whose foundation was laid in 1987, by our ...

Kohima, May 15: President Pranab Mukherjee today wrapped up his two-day Nagaland visit with a message on world-class education, global outlook, peace and development. Addressing a large gathering at the third convocation of Nagaland University, a ...

Asserting that the country''s economic progress will depend on the ability to innovate, President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said India lags behind some of the major economies in innovation. " Though Indians comprise one-sixth of the world ...

Emphasising on bringing higher education closer to common man, President Pranab Mukherjee today said the dream of creating world class universities in India is an achievable aspiration. "We must remember that once we had world class universities ...

If you were to purchase from the popular public discourse about developments along India's unresolved frontiers with China, you would end up gnashing your teeth at the brazenness with which our northern neighbour is nibbling away at disputed ...