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overseas travel spending, which accounted for 60% of the total remittances, up from 51% in July 2023. In July, Indians spent $1.6 billion on overseas travel, a sharp rise from $1.3 billion in June and the first-quarter average of $1.2 billion. This uptick was fueled by students traveling for international summer admissions and a surge in leisure travel, including destination weddings, during the first half of the month. Overall remittances during July showed a 16.7% increase year-on-year, with travel being the largest contributor, growing by 17.1%. Other categories like investments in equity and debt also saw significant growth, rising by 108.2% to $120.2 million, while remittances for medical treatment increased by 104.3% to $8.6 million. However, these categories represent a smaller portion of the total remittances. On the other hand, remittances for deposits declined by 16.8% compared to the previous year.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has emerged as Sri Lanka’s newly elected president, securing 42% of the vote in the country's first election since the 2022 economic collapse. The 55-year-old leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition defeated his main rival, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who garnered 23% of the vote, while outgoing President Ranil Wickremesinghe trailed in third. The election witnessed a high voter turnout, with 76% of Sri Lanka’s 17.1 million electorate participating in what is seen as a crucial vote for the country's future.

micro data centres (MDCs), which are small facilities designed to handle critical CPU and GPU workloads that require lesser space and needs lower investments, a paper published by Nandan Nilekani-backed people+ai has found. The organisation’s brainchild, the Open Cloud Compute (OCC) project advocates a distributed network of micro data centres. The OCC network, unveiled by Nilekani in May, hopes to onboard at least three compute providers for a pilot by October, ET had reported on August 28. The pilot will likely be powering a hackathon at a university for undergraduate students via OCC.

A “growing number” of international students are claiming asylum in order to stay in Canada after being allowed in on student visas, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says, calling it an “alarming trend.”

Nirmala Sitharaman has called for stress management lessons to be imparted by colleges and universities that will help increase the students' inner strength, comments made in apparent reference to the death of a young CA professional employed with EY that came under sharp criticism from opposition Congress which described her remarks «outright cruel.» Anna Sebastian Perayil, who passed her Chartered Accountancy exams in 2023 and worked at EY Pune office for four months, died in July. According to a letter her mother wrote to the EY India Chairman Rjiv Memani, Perayil was overworked with a «backbreaking» load as a new employee that affected her «physically, emotionally, and mentally». The government too has stepped in to say that it will investigate the work environment at Big Four accounting firm EY.

National Consumer Helpline (NCH) has facilitated a refund of Rs 1 crore in enrolment fees to students and aspirants of various competitive exams, including UPSC Civil Services and IIT entrance, the government said on Sunday. The refunds were processed at a pre-litigation stage following intervention by the Consumer Affairs Ministry after students from across the country raised grievances against coaching centres offering classes for various competitive exams. Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said, «This action reaffirms our commitment to ensure that coaching institutions adhere to fair practices and honour the rights of consumers.»

Quad scholarships, worth USD 500,000, to students from the Indo-Pacific. This initiative will enable recipients to pursue a four-year undergraduate engineering programme at a Government of India-funded technical institution. Notably, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan, and President Joe Biden of the United States--met for the fourth in-person Quad Leaders Summit, hosted by President Biden in Wilmington, Delaware. Wilmington is Biden's home town.

Despite the rising number of applications and the falling number of internships, the hardest (major) investment bank to land an internship isn’t the venerable JPMorgan and its 0.91% acceptance rate or Goldman Sachs and its 0.8%. No, the toughest bank to land an internship at – statistically – is Morgan Stanley.

IIT Hyderabad (IIT-H), driverless shuttles glide across the campus, silently showcasing India's strides in AI innovation. Funded by the Department of Science and Technology, TIHAN-Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Innovation- is part of a homegrown initiative launched in 2020 by students and faculty across AI, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Computer Science departments. «We wanted to bring AI to life for our students,» says Ganesh Ghalme, head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at IIT-H.

Indian Army personnel involved in the Oting massacre on December 4, 2021. These organizations include the Oting Students' Union (OSU), Naga Students' Federation (NSF), NSCN (I-M), and Naga Hoho. The Supreme Court's decision followed an FIR against the army personnel accused of a botched operation that resulted in the deaths of 13 civilians. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and P B Varale stated that because Nagaland is under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, sanction from the competent authority was required under Section 6 of the Act to proceed with prosecuting the personnel. On February 28, 2023, the competent authority declined to grant this sanction.

Kamala Harris has been on the receiving end of the rumors which are going on around in social media in recent times. Snopes reported that just some hours before the US Presidential Debate, there was post by Facebook page SpaceX Fanclub claiming Vice President Kamala Harris as the ‘worst student ever’ has been said by the professors of Kamala Harris from Howard University. According to Snopes, the SpaceX Fanclub Facebook post gained around 50,000 reactions of different kind adding on to the fact that the post was shared for 28,000 times receiving 13,000 comments at the same time. Some people actually took the post pretty seriously while individuals commented that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed her first bar exam and she is actually a pretty bad student. Also Read: Monsters Season 3: Release window, cast, and all about Ed Gein

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digital marketing expert, who previously worked in India for over three years, expressed frustration over his current annual salary of CAD 17,500 (approximately ₹10.78 lakhs).He shared his experience in a recent video interview with Piyush Monga, a digital creator, which has since gone viral on Instagram, receiving over 2,000 likes.The young professional, dissatisfied with his pay, voiced concerns about the undervaluation of Indian work experience in Canada. "Obviously, no one is happy.

Supreme Court on Friday directed a Union government-appointed high-level committee probing the death of three IAS aspirants in a coaching centre here in July due to flooding in the building's basement to submit interim measures in four weeks to prevent such incidents. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan directed the Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments to apprise the court of policy, legislative and administrative changes made to prevent a repeat of such incidents. It said uniform initiatives should be taken in the entire National Capital Region to prevent another Old Rajendra Nagar-type incident from happening. «If the need arises, we will pass directions for pan-India to prevent Old Rajendra Nagar-type incidents,» the bench observed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Anyone reading this article has those first five years of school education to thank. Think back to the first day of school—the nerves, the strange new environment, the tearful goodbye to parents, the anticipation of adventure.

Indian professional who previously worked at Google India shared his struggle to survive on his current salary in Canada. The individual, who moved to Canada and is now working as a Process Inventory Associate, spoke candidly about his difficulties in a viral video on the Instagram page ‘Salary Scale,’ run by digital creator Piyush Mongal. In the video shared on Instagram, the professional, who had more than three years of experience working at Google in India, revealed that his current annual income inCanada is $17,500 (Rs 10,77,511). “I can hardly survive on this income,” he said, expressing dissatisfaction with the low wages he now earns in comparison to his previous role in India. The drastic drop in salary has left him frustrated, especially since his work experience from India is not being recognized by Canadian employers. «Ever since I moved here, I've been reducing my experience on my resume because recruiters aren’t counting my work in India,» he explained. He added that the experience he gained while working for a major company like Google is being largely overlooked. «It just doesn’t make any sense,» he said, noting that employers in Canada seem to prioritize local experience over foreign credentials.

Uttar Pradesh government told Supreme Court that the madrassa education system, focusing on religious studies, is out of sync with mainstream education and that students studying in the theological establishments could be employed only in jobs requiring class 10 or 12 pass qualifications, reported TOI. UP government's affidavit was filed in a clutch of appeals by madrassas and their teachers challenging Allahabad HC's judgment, which on March 22 quashed the Madrasa Education Act, 2004, terming it violative of fundamental rights and the principle of secularism. SC has since stayed the HC judgment. The state said mainstream subjects are taught in madrassas till class 8 as per State Council of Educational Research and Training syllabus, and, " In class 9 and 10, mainstream subjects are not compulsory… students have to choose only one subject from mathematics, home science (only for girls), logic and philosophy, social science, science and Tib (traditional medical science)."

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Edtech company Physics Wallah’s offline ambitions and listing plan have fetched it $210 million in funding, effectively valuing it at $2.8 billion, 2.5 times what it was worth two years ago. Physics Wallah attracted new investors in this round, including India-focused hedge fund Hornbill Capital and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, the company said on 20 September.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian students seeking a foreign degree will have to scout for new options after top favourite Canada took an axe to its international student permits programme. “We’re granting 35% fewer international student permits this year.

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The federal government is again cutting how many international student permits Canada will issue, this time for 2025 and laying out the plan for 2026, Immigration Minister Marc Miller and Labour Minister Randy Boissonnault announced Wednesday.