Academics

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Facebook AI Research expands by collaborating with new academics for research

Facebook AI is expanding with academic collaborations in Pittsburgh, Seattle, London and Menlo Park.

Delhi HC order restraining appointment of guest teachers puts a spanner in ambitious 'Chunauti 2018' programme

The Delhi education department is facing an acute shortage of teachers to operate the 163 National Institute of Open Schooling centres it opened up recently.

Sociology text lists dowry 'advantages': How the media fanned a Facebook post-fuelled row

The dowry controversy was an unwarranted but deeply damaging attack on St. Joseph's College, Bengaluru. It also revealed several interesting problems

Najeeb didn't just vanish: Why are JNU authorities not showing any sense of urgency?

Is there any specific reason why the police have not been able to follow the trail despite having 12 suspects in custody?

No succor for the poor: Private medical colleges outsmart govt rules to compensate capitation fees loss

Although NEET was introduced to cut the cost of medical education for poor students particularly private medical colleges, it is doubtful if the original purpose has been served.

Scientists, academics write to JNU VC, express 'deep disappointment' over students' arrest

The signatories of the letter expressed their "deep disappointment" with the actions of the JNU Vice Chancellor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar and called on him take "urgent corrective steps to ensure that the police releases the arrested students, and also to ensure that it drops the unsubstantiated charges against them."

Stop that rage because it's pure hypocrisy. Rohith Vemula died because no one cared enough

Anyone with heart would be deeply sorry about Rohith Vemula’s suicide as one of five so-called Dalit research scholars. What Dalit scholars?

Schoolguru plans global, seeks to improve digital platform after Rs 20 cr funding

As of now, the company says it has no competition and are trying to consolidate its early advantage position in the market.

Full text: Silicon Valley boycotting Modi constitutes 'economic war against India', says new letter

A letter signed by a group of US-based academics, implacably opposed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, has advocated a boycott of India by Silicon Valley.