Indeed, many Japanese manufacturers were forced to retreat from the market of fast-selling smartphones and tablets after being caught between two fires from Apple Inc. of the United States and Samsung Electronics of South Korea, and being caught up fast by their Chinese competitors. Read more...
Standards of higher education institutes ‘abysmally low’: Pranab
President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday expressed concern over the standards of higher education in the country.
According to him, standards of higher education institutes (in India) in comparison to international benchmarks are “abysmally low”.
This “saddens” him, especially when he sees there are 37,000 degree colleges, 11,000 diploma poly-technical institutes and 720 universities. More...