Rankings News

The video talks about the World Happiness Report and how some countries rank above the other. It highlights different factors that contribute to the calculation of the happiness level. This year's report (WHR 2023) has caused some disbelief and dismissive noises from Indian policymakers, and outright derision on social media. While Finland and Denmark retain their number 1 and number 2 positions, and nobody is arguing about that, India sits at 126 out of 137 nations, which is not much of an improvement from 136 out of 146 in 2022. The survey uses the Cantril Ladder tool, which asks respondents to rate their happiness level on a ladder from 0 to 10. The report is released every year since 2013 and is supported by multiple organizations, including the UN non-profit Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

IISc Bangalore was one of the two institutes that figured in the global rankings

In the absence of the marquee schools, a few young IITs and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IISERs), King George Medical College made it to the 601-800 grouping

Impact ranking are designed to celebrate the commitment of universities to making a positive social and economic impactThis comes days after 8 IITs decided not to participate in THE world university rankings, citing lack of transparency

The older IITs say they doubt the transparency of the THE rankingsIITs will reconsider their decision next year ‘if THE is able to convince them about the parameters and transparency in their ranking process’

IIT Ropar’s higher ranking is driven primarily by its research citation impact, where it scored 100, far ahead of its peersThe 11-year-old IIT Ropar makes its debut on the World University Ranking list, sharing the spot for best ranked Indian university with IISc

There were some remarkable performances from players in all the three matches on three different continentsBen Stokes probably provided the best performance in the last week, a performance that will be remembered for years

In the Test team rankings, India remained in top position followed by New Zealand (2) and South Africa (3) with England (4) and Australia (5)Virat Kohli is on 922 points with New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson (913) just behind him and Cheteshwar Pujara (881) third in the rankings

The Delhi University improved on its 2019 rank of 487 and is placed at 474 in the latest rankingsThe HRD ministry said Indian institutions in the top 500 did better than last year but competition in Asia has been severe

According to Mercer’s 21st annual Quality of Living Rankings, the two cities are followed by Bengaluru (149), Mumbai (154) and New Delhi (162) Vienna retained the top rank for the 10th year running, followed by Zurich at second spot