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Taranjit Singh Sandhu, new ambassador to US, has to do balancing act with strategic ally

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Taranjit Singh Sandhu

India’s new ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu

Taranjit Singh Sandhu (IFS:1988), presently High Commissioner of India, Colombo has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the United States of America. He has served as the Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka from 2017 and his new appointment comes at a time when New Delhi is trying to balance its strategic and tensed trade ties with the US.

Sandhu will succeed Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who will take charge as the country’s new foreign secretary on Feb 4, Wednesday. His immediate task will be overseeing a visit by US President Donald Trump next month to India, where New Delhi wants to pursue its push for a bilateral trade pact.

Taranjit Singh Sandhu’s appointment also comes at a time when New Delhi is facing criticism from the US Congress where Democrat leader Pramila Jaypal has introduced a resolution in the US House of Representatives over Kashmir and taken jibes at the current government over Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and Kashmir policy following abrogation of Article 370. The Indian embassy Saturday faced the wrath of protesters over these two issues.

Sandhi, a 1988 IFS batch member, had two stints at the Indian Embassy in Washington DC in the past.  He was Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy of India in Washington D.C. from July 2013 to January 2017. He was First Secretary (Political) at Embassy of India, Washington, D.C. responsible for liaison with the United States Congress from 1997-2000.

He also served as Consul General of India in Frankfurt from September 2011 to July 2013. He served in the Ministry of External Affairs from March 2009 to August 2011, as Joint Secretary (United Nations) and later as Joint Secretary (Administration) heading the Human Resource Division. High Commissioner Sandhu was at the Permanent Mission of India to United Nations, New York from July 2005 to February 2009. Prior to it, he served as the Head of the Political Wing in the High Commission of India, Colombo from December 2000 to September 2004.

In a distinguished career spanning nearly thirty years in the Indian Foreign Service, he worked on various assignments including a three year stint at the Indian embassy in erstwhile Soviet Union (Russia) from 1990 to 1992 as Third Secretary (Political) / Second Secretary (Commercial). Following the breakup of Soviet Union, he was sent to open a new Embassy in Ukraine.

He served as Head of Political and Administration Wings in Indian Embassy in Kiev from 1992 to 1994. On his return to India, he served as Officer on Special Duty (Press Relations), Ministry of External Affairs from 1994 to March 1997. He was responsible for liaison with foreign media in India.

Born on 23 January 1963 in a family of educationists, High Commissioner Sandhu studied at the Lawrence School, Sanawar and graduated with History Honors from St. Stephens’ College, Delhi. He pursued a Masters Degree in International Relations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi in 1982-84.

Sandhu is married to Mrs. Reenat Sandhu, who is also an IFS officer and is currently India’s Ambassador to Italy. They have two children.

JNU on top as University in HRD 2018 NIRF ranking

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School of Life sciences, JNU

Despite unrest on the campus, Jawaharlal Nehru University still remains the top university in India alongwith the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru that was adjudged the overall best institution in the country.

The 2018 ranking of top institutions by the HRD Ministry ranked the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) as the best engineering college and the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) as the best management institution.

The ministry’s annual national institutional ranking framework (NIRF) has put Delhi University’s Miranda House as the best college and the St Stephen’s College as the second.

While JNU was ranked the highest, BHU comes next among the national universities. Delhi’s AIIMS was adjudged the best medical college, IIT-Kharagpur and National Law School of India University, Bengaluru topped in their respective architecture and law categories.

The top 10 institutes are: IISc, six IITs in Madras, Bombay, Delhi, Kharagpur, Kanpur and Roorkee, JNU, BHU and Anna University.

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, Jamia Hamdard and Punjab University were ranked as top pharmacy colleges.

This is the thrid edition of NIRF rankings and 2,809 institutions have participated in nine categories — overall, universities, engineering, colleges, management, pharmacy, medical, architecture and law.

Overall, 301 universities, 906 engineering institutions, 487 management instites, 286 pharmacy colleges, 71 law institutions, 101 medical institutions, 59 architecture institutions and 1,087 general degree colleges have participated in the ranking.

“The parameters used for India Rankings 2018 are broadly similar to those used in previous years. However, some of the sub-parameters have been further tweaked for greater robustness and accuracy. In particular for evaluating Research Impact, parameters for quality of publications have been enhanced to include the number of highly cited papers,” said the HRD Ministry in its statement.

The performance metrics have been optimized to provide a good discrimination over a large range of possible values. All research related information, including publications, citations, highly cited papers and even patent information about institutes was collected from third party databases.

For this year’s Perception inputs, a large database of eminent academic and industry peers and employers was deployed. The data received from both institutional and third party sources were subjected to extensive scrutiny for consistency and correctness by a team of experts, said the ministry.

From next year, participation in the national institutional ranking framework (NIRF) will be made mandatory, said HRD minister Prakash Javadekar while announcing the rankings. “Those public institutions which will not take part in it will face fund cut,” the human resource development (HRD) minister added.

List of top 10 India Rankings 2018 is as follows:

 

Overall:

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 1
Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 3
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 4
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 5
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 6
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 7
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 8
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 9
Anna University, Chennai 10

 

 

Management

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 1
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore 2
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta 3
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow 4
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 5
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 6
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 7
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 8
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 9
Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur 10

 

University

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 1
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 3
Anna University, Chennai 4
University of Hyderabad 5
Jadavpur University, Kolkata 6
University of Delhi 7
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 8
Savitribai Phule Pune University 9
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 10

 

 

Colleges

Miranda House, Delhi 1
St. Stephens`s College, Delhi 2
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli 3
Hindu College, Delhi 4
Presidency College, Chennai 5
Loyola College, Chennai 6
Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi 7
Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi 8
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah 9
Madras Christian College, Chennai 10

 

 

Pharmacy

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Mohali 1
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi 2
Panjab University, Chandigarh 3
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai 4
Birla Institute of Technology  & Science, Pilani 5
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Hyderabad 6
Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal 7
Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai 8
SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai 9
JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysore 10

 

 

Medical

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 1
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore 3

 

Architecture

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 1
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 2
School of Planning & Architecture New Delhi 3

 

Law

National Law School of India University, Bengaluru 1
National Law University, New Delhi 2
Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad 3

 

Engineering

 

Indian Institute of Technology Madras 1
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 2
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 3
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 4
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 5
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 6
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati 7
Anna University, Chennai 8
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad 9
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai 10

 

Top Universities of India List under NIRF Ranking Released, JNU 3rd, HCU 2nd, BITS,Pilani 9th

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Ending fake claims of rankings across the country, India’s Union HRD ministry’s NIRF has released the the country’s ranking of top universities and institutes in categories of univesities, engineering institutes, management institutes, and pharma institutes.

As expected JNU has come on top at third while the science streams had IISc of Bangalore on top of the list. Leaving aside IISc and ICT-Mumbai, JNU tops the general stream of universities in the country, while University of Hyderabad came next to it and surprisingly Tezpur University of Assam took the fifth rank, leaving Delhi University to 6th rank.

Here is the list of top 5 universities/institutes in their respective category:

TOP 5 UNIVERSITIES in INDIA:

1.Indian Institute Of Science Banglore–Banglore—Karnataka

Now Googlemap Shows JNU When You Search for ‘Sedition’, ‘Antinational’

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Google Map Makes JNU Symbol for Sedition, Antinational Search Strings Now.

Goole, which has some top brains in its Headquarters from JNU should be ashamed that its search engine etiquette surpasses basic tenets of slander and defame against an institution like Jawaharlal Nehru University for pointing at it for its Google Map search for sedition and antinational key words.

As shown in the image here, when you type the two words, JNU campus gate pops up as the answer and a red marker on JNU campus vividly shows Google’s endorsement of the campus for these search strings. Google Maps was either hacked or someone had intentionally made it to defame the campus, which has been defamed by the government crackdown on its students recently.

Despite Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s remarks in parliament, JNU has been the victim of hatred spread by the government crackdown based on ill-found videos in circulation or aired by ZeeNews recently and now that the case is sub-judice, the BJP-ruled government is awaiting a bigger onslaught on the campus on social media with Google falling in line.

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and two other JNU students were last month arrested for sedition and freed on bail later but the damage brought upon the unique institution of the country has been dented forever, thanks to Delhi Police which too has sevveral officers from JNU and no political party nor an educational institution has been without a JNU alumni.

The JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) has asked the administration to file a formal complaint with Google. “We have been protesting against the branding of an institution as anti-national and now the search giant has gone a step ahead in certifying that,” said Shehla Rashid Vora, Vice President of JNUSU.

Last year, similar faux pas by Google angered the BJP when top 10 criminals string popped up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name.

Otherwise, JNU is already under duress from the over-vigilant administration which is raiding hostel rooms and even lecture rooms frequently. When students of the Centre of Law and Governance were recently viewing a movie by Anand Patwardhan, “Father, Son and Holy war”, the administration raided the lecture room apprehensive about screening some illegal movie. That is the state of affairs in the top univeristy of the country and the knee-jerk reaction of its benevolent administration.

God Save JNU!