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"Can't be our Icon": BHU students oppose Nita Ambani as Visiting Professor A group of about 40 students, on Tuesday, protested outside the residence of Vice-Chancellor Rakesh Bhatnagar against the BHU move Wednesday March 17, 2021 11:17 AM, IANS Varanasi: The proposal of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to appoint Nita Ambani, wife of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, as a visiting professor, has met with resistance by a small group of students. BHU's Social Sciences Faculty had recently sent a proposal to Reliance Foundation, asking Nita Ambani to join the university as a visiting faculty at their ...

Author – Mahinda Jayaweera An author publication The ‘crunch years’ for Sri Lanka came in the mid-seventies. Observers cannot be accused of overstating the case when they say that the relaxing of economic controls in those years by an ultra-rightist government opened the floodgates to a multiplicity of social and economic ills. These evils have been weighing Sri Lanka down to date but a searching look at the 50s and 60s decades reveals a comparatively pleasant and peaceful Sri Lanka. To be sure, those decades had their blemishes but worse was to follow and the latter phase is a harrowin...

Covid vaccine progress needs investment 4 4 In normal times, a vaccine is a health product that works its way to protect a person from a disease. But in the age of "new normal", vaccines can define a country's development level. Advanced countries such as the US and UK started rolling out vaccination programmes last month as authorised agencies approved Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccine for emergency use, while developing countries have to wait longer as available vaccines of the two pharma giants are mostly reserved. Thailand is likely to get vaccines from AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pha...

Students at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. LVIV – DOU (developers.org.ua), a community of Ukrainian programmers, recently publicized its analysis of the ratings of the best institutions of higher education in the information technology (IT) field in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Catholic University, in particular its Applied Sciences Faculty, received first place among all Ukraine’s institutions of higher education. This year’s rating, which was released on October 5, was based on the results of the admissions campaign of 2020, for which UCU received 189.15 out of 200 points on the...