Systems challenge
As policymakers give shape to NEP and Atmanirbhar Bharat, they must nurture institutional frameworks that enable research
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In September, speaking on the New Education Policy (NEP), Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the importance of the knowledge economy. “We are working to make India a knowledge economy, to tackle brain drain,” he said. The policy, indeed, talks of “nurturing creativity”, enhancing “employability” and inviting foreign institutions to set up campuses. But these should be seen as only the first steps towards building capacities. As an investigation by this paper which tracked 86 men and women who stood first in India, between 1996 and 2015, in their Class 10 and 12 exams has shown, creating an atmosphere that can cater to the aspirations of youngsters wanting to pursue cutting edge research will require addressing m
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The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that is more a The Colombo-centred spread shows the larger number of infected persons from the 16,311 reported as at December 23 since October 4 and also deaths are from the Colombo Municipal Council areas that are most crowded and cramped where most “underserved settlements” (Slums addressed diplomatically) are located
Fifteen of the isolated Police divisions and Grama Niladhari divisions are in these most densely populated areas
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BENGALURU: At a time when the protest against the central government’s three new farm laws is getting support from various quarters across the globe, a group of academicians from top institutions in the country has written to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) supporting the legislations.
In the letter written early last week, the academicians say “this moment should not be missed”. The letter reads: “This is a golden opportunity for reforms, which have been eluding agriculture since the industrial reform in 1991. We are convinced that the moment has arrived for agriculture and if these reforms are missed, agriculture will have no future in India.”
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Through the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) as the official representative of the 20-plus scientific institutions, India, too, is involved in this project. However, as a member country, India is yet to complete the final approval and ratification process for joining the construction phase.
Once ready, this observatory could help the scientific community improve its knowledge and seek answers to some of the fundamental and yet poorly-explored aspects of the universe, such as its early history, the evolution of galaxies over cosmic time, fundamental physics in extreme environments and more.
Started in 2014, the SKA design work took six years to be completed, with contributions made by over 1,000 engineers and scientists from across 20 countries.