Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Monday slammed the Modi government for allegedly "hiding" the data from the IITs showing a "significant decline" in the percentage of students getting placements and the average salary package drawn by final-year B Tech students through campus placements.
Ishiba is set to helm world's fourth-largest economy in the face of a weakening yen, inflation, growing national debt and wage stagnation. The country has also to contend with increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific, North Korea's nuclear ambitions and China's growing military threats.
Emma Bubola, writing in NYT said that anti-monarchists see the coronation as an opportunity to highlight the absurdity of having a royal family in the 21st century.