# Institutes rankings

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras, retained the top spot in the national rankings of Institutions in overall and engineering categories for the fifth and eighth consecutive year respectively.
• Bengaluru based Indian Institute of Science was adjudged the best university for the eighth year in a row, according to the education ministry’s latest National Institutional Ranking Framework.
• In NIRF – 2023, Miranda house came on Top in the category of colleges for the seventh consecutive year on the trot, followed by Hindu college and presidency college, Chennai.
• IISC Bengaluru was also adjudged the best research Institute and IIT Kanpur ranked first for innovation.
• In the university category, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia milia Islamia retained retained their second and third rank respectively, while Jadhavpur university occupied the 4th Position.
• Banaras Hindu university moved one rank up to bag the fifth spot.

# H1B visas

• India born people again cornered the lion’s share of H1B applications approved by the US citizenship and immigration Services in the fiscal year 2022 getting 3.20 lakh or 72.6% of the total 4.41 lakh such visas granted.
• This means, nearly three of every four H1B visas granted went to Indian born persons.
• The second most common country of birth was China, with a comparatively meagre number of 55038.
• Canada with 4235 successful applicants stood third in ranking.
• H1B visas can be alloted for a maximum of six years.

# India-US

• India and the US on Monday set the stage for clinching the mega project to co produce fighter jet engines during PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington later this month.
• The delegation level meeting between defense minister Rajnath Singh and US Defense secretary Lloyd Austin in Delhi concluded a new ambitious defense industrial co operation on roadmap to fast track technology collaboration and co production.

# BBC

• BBC has acknowledged that it may have paid lower taxes in India than its liability, government sources said on Monday.
• BBC had been under the lens of tax authorities with its offices in Delhi and Mumbai surveyed a few months ago.