urban clap >>>> all the money poured into "skill india" nonsense
so many AC/fridge/appliance repair folk got linked to well paid work that way
same for barbers, beauticians
so many couples jointly making 1+ L/m thru it while those in office going/white collar roles struggle
Never in my entire life have I felt the fear, tension, and anxiety I feel living in NYC right now. The city is like a ticking time bomb. Like everytime I step outside my apartment I could be attacked by a bunch of Hindutva incels who have no reading comprehension
The story of every organization which is hiring today.
3 years of experience and demanding 30LPA, without knowing their ability or worth.
Add the 3 months notice period and it's a nightmare.
The icing on the cake are the 'Didi- Bhaiya' influencers who encourage the young talent
People seriously underestimate how hard it is to get into a top 15 univ abroad for STEM courses
The kids from india studying ECE or EECS at CMU/Berkeley (at the UG level) are not some dumb rich brats (who generally pursue some random liberal arts degree at Emory and the likes)
Dear
@CNNnews18
your newsdalals have plotted 252 below the y=240 line to sensationalize this graph by making the second-derivative appear much higher than what it is for the current data ⬇️ This is what we get when the op-ed writer class gets into things way beyond their level.
She freeloaded 10 yrs in JNU (8 failed UPSC attempts en-route?) & this is her PhD thesis 😬
Teachers in a half-decent Bengaluru school will fling this into the bin if you dare submit such a googled-up data-free chart-free cocktail for class 9 projects.
Bengali madams (esp chittranjan park ghetto rat journos) will discover hate everywhere except for their own state which sees the worst levels of political violence around every election
Petrol stocks for a single day, power outages will increase to 15 hours a day, severe shortage of medicine & surgical equipment. Hate always comes at a cost.
#SriLankaCrisis
😅😅Nice way to conceal a matter of shame in a shiny wrapping paper. Out of over 800 Delhi Govt schools for which I scanned results, only 553 had Mathematics at the class 12 level (250+ schools didn't have a critical subject like Math), just 244 had Physics/Chem, just 234 had bio
Missing out on a huge PR campaign here
Best time to tarnish the image of these parasites in the public eye
Showcase them as corrupt freeloaders etc turn the tables on them
This needs to be dealt with an iron hand.
Over 6 lakh teachers & shiksha mitras are protesting against digital attendance move of Basic Shiksha Parishad.
Only 2% of the teachers marked their attendance on first day of its implementation.
Rest 98% need to be fired immediately.
zomato employs 310k delivery persons
most of them earn 20k/month ++
better appreciate them as job-creators and move on
the brutal reality is that many of these delivery folk are probably not skilled to do much; just appreciate that there's a company which keeps them employed
Biggest joke - Indian CEOs can run large tech companies abroad but even they won't be able to handle the headaches of setting up a small college or school here.
Friend in BigTech was willing to spend ~5-7 Cr to setup a small school for poor kids. Gave up on seeing the process.
adorable & cute
but when you decide to become a philanthropist who sets up a new college
you'll make it a point to insist that you're Sikh to get the golden passport of the Indian edu sector, the minority exemption under Art 30 😃
Coz the Indian state sees things differently
lateral hiring, agniveer etc all of these seem to be good changes
only thing is must do these things in more subtle and discreet ways instead of madly waving "reform flag" which makes riffraffs see red ;-)
for eg CSAT for UPSC (screens out rural crowd) - that is a subtle reform
the oldest 3 IITs were started pre-1947 (just not called by that name)
the 5 major ones - all the planning/blueprint was done by 1943 or so
AIIMS - Bhore committee of 1943
and all these institutes cater to a tiny number relative to Delhi/Bom Univ
---
india failed @ primary-ed
@dmuthuk
India went through many challenging times such as wars, droughts, oil crisis etc post independence
All the roaring PSUs of today, the IITs, IIMs, RECs, AIIMS, ISRO, BARC, BHEL, ICICI, HDFC, TCS, Infosys etc etc were started in those 40 so called lost years.
The fact that India
A cordial virtual meeting with FM
@moteging
of Japan. Appreciate Japan’s strong support for India to meet the current Covid challenge. Discussed intensifying our bilateral engagement in the near future. Also reviewed regional issues in the Indo-Pacific.
Because that exam is rigged by the local medical mafia to artificially suppress pass rates - use a control group and see what % of indian-educated MBBS students clear that exam and publish that result. Many of them end up having great careers in UK etc after certifications there.
BJP troll army has launched a hate campaign against me.
First they released my personal number, leading to hundreds of abusive, threatening phone calls.
Now they've called for crowds to gather outside my home this evening.
I am informing
@DelhiPolice
Not going to be intimidated.
how dare a dare a 25 yr old have the gall to ask for 30LPA
they should be content sharing a 1000 sq ft flat with 2-3 other flatmates, taking an autorickshaw to work everyday, eating daal chawal bhindi or maggi, taking the train (3AC) when they visit their hometown
lol, no
KVs are hardly "for everyone"
they are "gated communities" which are mostly - for central govt employees, by central govt employees - and the aam aadmi taxpayer foots most of the bill
only way aam-aadmi can get in is via quotas or recommendations; and that's tough
"explore the impact of grief in shaping spiritual cultures amongst underprivileged communities in India"
not studying worthless topics and subjects will automagically reduce much of that grief for millions of youngsters
amazing how they're trying to blame a handful of rowdies
an old and poorly maintained bridge which can't withstand a random bunch of blows
should never be open to the public
This is appalling! A bunch of young men were seen on camera kicking the cables of the
#MorbiBridge
before it collapsed. Eyewitnesses have also confirmed the same.
I request CM
@Bhupendrapbjp
and HM
@sanghaviharsh
to ensure a thorough investigation of the matter.
Govt. should increase testing centers (allow pvt too) but this absurd focus by
@scroll_in
newspeddlers on "tests per million" is outlandish: shows ignorance about sample sizes (they don't vary much with population size for large N); the focus has to be on sample quality not size.
people have no idea what a giant leap this is
KV "special quota" was an abomination in a democracy
MPs/Officials behaved like generous feudal lords "recommending" students on a case by case basis; bestowing their largesse to get "commoners" admitted to taxpayer-funded schools
@Tushar15_
Better to scrap UPSC exams altogether and then make everything via lateral entry
Otherwise the system will get flooded with substandard BA grads like it was before Manmohan Singh
The average goods train speed in India is 24 km/h, whereas China's average goods train speed is 120 km/h, how will we compete with them? In The United States, it is 78km/h, and in The United Kingdom, it is 75km/h: Telangana CM and BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao (05.02)
the 12 yr old from Bangalore has more talent than being able to wander around the country independently
he managed to sell 3 parker pens (Rs 100 per piece) to get some cash
we need to applaud such skills; far more praiseworthy than much of what the formal edu system teaches
Inside Indias secure uranium processing facility -- this is also uploaded 😐
need to arrest this chap and scan his laptop, phone -- see if he's selling stuff on darkweb. Probably just the tip of the iceberg; the rest of his transactions could be happening behind the curtain.
Singapore math - Primary School Leaving (k5) level questions. While we allowed brainless activists to infantilize 10 yr olds by making them pose for cute tree hugging pics after throw out science till k5.
@hrnext
there are almost NO poor kids at IITs or IIMs
mostly middle to upper-middle class
some lower-middle income and some, of course, some fairly rich
board-wise distribution: 70-75% studied in CBSE/ICSE at least till 10th; these boards cater to <10% of a k12 batch in India
33 is too low, pull it to 50 and include Class 12 level mathematics
if anything, the mass support against CSAT just proves that all sorts of riffraffs were preparing for the UPSC
very often, when there is a large scale protest - it means the missile landed where it should have
UPSC Civil Services Exam 2023: Plea Before Central Administrative Tribunal Seeks Reduction In Cut Off For CSAT From 33% to 23%, Says Difficulty Level Of Questions Similar To IIT JEE, CAT
@AimanChishti
#UPSC
#CivilServices
While the rest of India was struggling with a bogus SEZ model (tiny, disparate patches of land) the foresighted visionary
@ncbn
seeded the Gachibowli IT corridor - 5 km long stretch (& 1 km deep on each side of it) with ISB, IIIT-H, Microsoft, Infosys etc
remarkable how India (esp Bengal) regularly produces so many economists and still has an economy in shambles
unlike east asian tigers which actually built robust economies instead of churning out scholars wasting time studying theories about the economy & writing op-eds/papers
4 of the teenagers who won medals at IMO 2024
another one is Adhitya Mangudy Venkata Ganesh
from (Sri Chaitanya Techno School Pune)
Kudos!
no surprises - none of them from the new fancy international schools which supposedly make u compete with the world and charge 5L+ for it
The core of the JNU quagmire has not been dissected. The VC is genuinely incompetent as an administrator, however what folk don't realize is, that their post-grad admission process was more like a foot-soldier-recruitment process. The VC disrupted that. Hence the shrieks.
@AdityaRajKaul
Something like this is virtually impossible in south India. People are generally genteel, respectful & soft spoken. Even our languages are - at home and outside.
#India
#Inde
Tamil Nadu's performance is shockingly poor in both JEE/NEET (just see today's IITJEE result)
... for a state which once sent fairly large contingents to nearly all premier institutions
shows the dangers of using school (state) boards as vehicles of vicious political agendas
if you waited 2 years for an exam (for a secure govt job)
it means u aren't very employable to begin with; else u'd have some other job by now
no good reason for the taxpayer to foot the bill for such parasites anyway; these "jobs" are simply about govt largesse and charity
IIT Hyd campus
This started around the same time as Nalanda University..much bigger project (understandably) and it took about 6-7 yrs for them to start shifting into the main campus
Drag Amartya Sen by the collar and ask for a breakup of how 75 Cr of taxmoney spent on Nalanda
The kind of people who get dazzled (on social media) by
@AtishiMarlena
and AAP's wondrous "government school reform" mission are often the Cadillac communist variety whose own kids will be in elite pvt schools like DPS, Modern, Shri Ram, Sanskriti, Sardar Patel and Cathedral.
Infosys charged 4000 Cr for the IT portal !! Which in any case is 15 person/1 year long college project at best. Looks like the govt just wants to keep all these companies alive on taxpayer ka paisa.
Ashoka University's donors seem to be putting a lot of pressure to push the univ away from being a humanities den ;-) eg certain scholarships only for those who pursue science degrees
after this failed experiment no one will create another rich kids' JNU for the next few decades
this yrs CAT had a rigorous quant section
looks like IIMs are trying to keep out those with lower numeracy/quant ability - because they invariably mess up placement stats for a batch (esp in times like these)
how can IIMB be held responsible for BA grads not finding internships
bigbee's grandkid getting into IIMA is as much of a flex for IIMA as it is for her
when the wealthy class completely abandons higher ed here, it makes our own institutes look like mere second options for those who can't afford anything better; why is this so hard to get
waiting for his cabinet to say
we thank shri
@narendramodi
for this far sighted and proactive step and for his generosity in using his PM cares fund. A PM who truly cares!
Oxygen plants in every district to ensure adequate oxygen availability...
An important decision that will boost oxygen availability to hospitals and help people across the nation.
those who get intimidated by (somewhat tricky) Qs based on grade 10/12 mathematics have no business aspiring to be a part of the administrative/governance structure of the country - unless they are astute and popular enough to win elections and work directly as lawmakers
MEA role shouldn't have gone to someone who is the father of a non-indian citizen .. for that matter no senior ministerial or bureaucrat role should go to folk with kids based outside
the cultural difference between mumbai and delhi is that some random creature with a PhD in sociology/history etc. won't ever get to masquerade as an "intellectual" or thinker of consequence in Mumbai
Mumbai gets the social hierarchy right, IMHO
money talks, work talks
An Indian friend moved to Europe a few years ago. She lives there with her family now and has a 7/8 year old boy who was born and raised in Europe itself.
The family made a trip to Delhi and neighbouring regions recently. It was the kid's first visit to India. They spent some
amazing
so these 25-30 yr olds are implicitly admitting that its beyond their cognitive ability to handle Qs designed for smart 17 year olds
and that is supposed to be an argument
to throw open the doors & allow them in ??
Some are claiming that 7 questions in UPSC CSAT 2023 have been traced to previous year's IITJEE questions of 2000-2015 period and around 5 questions from previous year CAT/GMAT questions of 2003-2019 period 🥵
BREAKING: Great news! Parinav has been found safe. He was spotted at the Nampally metro station in Hyderabad. His parents are on their way to get him. Wishing the family better times 🙏🏽
then they wonder why journos are considered dumb ⬇️
needed 25+ ppl to make a bunch of joins/merges and to do what a single person running handful of SQL/OLAP queries or short python scripts could do
A bunch of 25 journalists have been working together from day before, with one purpose- to look at the electoral bond data.
@thenewsminute
already works with
@newslaundry
.
@scroll_in
’s
@sharmasupriya
and we spoke and thought why not work together
adding IAS IPS tag in non-official handles
is the online equivalent of laal/neeli batti on top of an official Ambassador car
symbolized some sort of "arrived in life" for lot of youngsters from deprived backgrounds .. slightly more urban version of a proud village sarpanch
what jobs will u create for folk who struggle with Class 8 level math & data interpretation ?
u can't even trust them to run modern machines or tools
did people notice the hue and cry when folk read the CUCET notification and said - are we expected to revise class 8 math!
India must create 20 million jobs per year, every year for the next decade and more.
This ought to be our biggest social, economic and political agenda.
#MayDay
Say what you may about Yashwanth Sinha
But the events of the last week are a good reminder of how he saved the country from a fiscal time bomb !! By scrapping traditional pensions & replacing them with NPS.
This is how NRIs must stay during their annual trips to India
Dead serious
Spend & live in style, create jobs for those in the travel & tourism industry
Our problem is wealthy folk restraining themselves from self-indulgence (to avoid being branded as insensitive to the poor)
Not even ONE of these schools offered Psychology, Biotechnology, Technical drawing/design. Just 45 offered a fundamental elective like Comp Science.
PCMB subjects are the ones where students fail. If you want to keep your pass rate high by not offering these subjects, good luck.
Apparently, it is possible to slip in from China, without any screening for the virus - at Kolkata airport.
All bets are off at this point. In three months from now, we'll be in the middle of a full blown pandemic.
@paulg
We are seeing how this kind of stuff plays out in India
Dumb down what goes on inside school classrooms
=> the advanced stuff now gets provided by a for-profit industry of after-school classes etc. and only the well heeled can afford it
forget udipi for a moment
will Baldwin Girls' or Bishop Cotton Girls'
allow this?
oh wait
they won't even admit someone who's likely to turn up for class in that attire
UAE will be a role model country within a decade! Hitting all the right notes instead of taking their oil for granted. Focusing on tourism, business over religion, good schools and universities, outer space and now webtech too. And being a finance and aviation hub, too.
India must be the only country
where it's very difficult to get well-educated foreigners visas and permits to work here in corporates or MNCs or academia; lots of cumbersome paperwork (much of the time) + regular checks
but otherwise! it's a free for all at the borders 🙄
Digging holes in this piece by
@iamrana
from a numeracy perspective (dire need of some high school math/stats edu) - it is entirely possible for overall GDP to rise while the ruling class loots the poor; only median per-capita levels can reveal the story.
on a serious note, for a finite amount of money X (for higher-ed), the 1t priority of the gov should be to try making sure that high-quality UG seats are maximized.
The 10 yrs she spent at JNU could've funded 3 yrs BCom, BA, BSc for three 85-percenters who gets zilch at DU, now.
This sid/tunku/tinku etc aren't even indian citizens
Cancel visvas/OCI n deport citing "foreign interference" .. This time even their usual defenders wont be able to do much 😁😁
Only fools will buy into Azim Premji's image makeover of being this great philanthropist...well known how he kicked up a fuss when international tech companies started paying engineers & programmers a living wage in India
People like him wanted to continue exploiting fresh grads
"After winning gold in chess Olympiad, team India asked to pay customs duty
Vice captain Srinath Narayanan says he was asked for the chemical composition of the medals, and these were released only after he paid ₹6,300 as duty"
This year's UPSC topper completed her UG degree in 2017 and worked for approx 1.5 yrs as per her linkedin
Better just allow one shot at this exam; nothing more
This path must not be there for someone wasting several yrs in their 20s (or doing jobs with a very low pay/profile)
@mohakmangal
I don't know about Gujarat
but in northern india
if u combine all boards (CBSE, ICSE, State) and scrutinize the data
very unlikely that more than 15-20% take science in 12th
ICSE is the only outlier perhaps
most students study humanities/arts, otherwise
It's time for indian bureaucracy to check if The Economist offices in India are in 100% compliance with our seven million tax laws and rules around foreign remittances 😀
Economist edit: If the Canadian investigation confirms Indian involvement in Nijjar’s murder, it is time for the West to take a tougher line against India.
actually this is good - this is a concrete but different dimension of merit unlike the rest of the quota beggars
even a handful of talented sportpersons can transform the sporting culture over the course of a few yrs
"In Punjab the cult status of.. Bhindranwale is more like what Che Guevara was for the youn"
remarkable
then stop taking offense w.r.t. the "K word"
if there's a dangerous bomb in the corner, you don't slink away "coz it may burst" - you get the squad to destroy it promptly
@GabbbarSingh
found this for 500
Hyderabad - 174 students
Delhi - 120 students
Bombay - 100 students
Roorkee - 46 students
Kharagpur - 37 students
Kanpur - 16 students
Guwahati - 4 students
Goodness. Another of these innumerate “data journalists” running a crude extrapolation which even a 9th grader can conjure up - why risk your professional credibility by pretending to offer a fancy mathematical model for a complex topic requiring a ton of domain knowledge?
Thread: For
@ThePrintIndia
I looked at the current rate of growth of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India and estimates by others. In most scenarios it is looking like India will hit 1 mn *confirmed* cases in May - and the fatality rate is broadly over 3%