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Yale University sued by US for favoring black, hispanic applicants
The lawsuit was previously threatened by the government in a letter that gave the university a deadline to agree to stop considering an applicant’s race or national origin in its 2020-2021 admissions cycle
3 min read9 Oct 2020PM Modi wants Yale and Oxford to be able to open campuses in India
Modi’s government is pushing to overhaul the South Asian nation’s heavily regulated education sector
3 min read8 Oct 2020Government puts on hold plan to let in foreign universities
The centre seeks to focus on building domestic world-class universities
2 min read15 Aug 2017Artificial intelligence may outperform humans by 2060: study
According to a survey, machines are predicted to be better than humans at translating languages by 2024, driving a truck by 2027, writing a bestselling book by 2049 and surgery by 2053
1 min read1 Jun 20172017 to be one of the hottest years: study
Yale University professor Alexey Fedorov says 2017 will remain among the hottest years of the observational record, perhaps just a notch colder than 2016 or 2015
1 min read28 Apr 2017Social networks key to acts of group violence, finds Yale study
The Yale University researchers studied the social dynamics of the Nyangatom, an East African nomadic tribe, that is regularly involved in violent raids with other groups
2 min read11 Oct 2016Tata group ties up with Harvard, Yale, IIT Madras to fund research
The financial support, exceeding $25 million, will be spread over time, in line with the tenure of the individual alliances with the institutions
4 min read30 Aug 2016Scientists solve mystery behind Tully Monster
Scientists say Tully Monster was not a segmented worm or a free-swimming slug, as once hypothesized, but rather a type of jawless fish called a lamprey
2 min read17 Mar 2016JNU sedition case: Students of international universities support Kanhaiya Kumar
While students and teachers condemned raising anti-national slogans, they claim the slogans were not raised by Kanhaiya and there was nothing seditious in his speech
2 min read21 Feb 2016Share of international students at Yale will go up: Peter Salovey
Yale University is expanding the size of its undergraduate programme by 15%, says president Peter Salovey
4 min read9 Feb 2016Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared