Adopting British education system was blunder: Satyapal Singh
New Delhi, June 30: Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Satyapal Singh on Saturday said the country's intellectual class was "corrupt" which is unfortunate and adoption of the British education system was a "grave mistake".
"Those who were to lead in the field of intellectuality, academia got corrupted," Singh told a gathering after launching book "Politics Of A New India" here.
He said four mistakes were committed in the country -- first, people were divided on lines of religion; second, states were created on the basis of language; and third, society was divided into castes.
"But the fourth mistake was grave. We adopted British education system and the school of thought."
Saying the Indian culture was misinterpreted by the western world, Singh said there was need to bring a new education system.
He also said that he was still "firm" on his past statement on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution of man was "scientifically wrong".
"I had given a statement on monkey. I think well before I speak. I am a science student. Nobody gave a thought to it," he said.
"Ancestors of those who believe (Darwin's theory) may have been monkey. But not of mine."
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India has agreed already to drop its tariffs to nothing: President Trump
New York/Washington, May 7 (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said India has “agreed” to drop its high tariffs “to nothing”.
“I mean, India as an example, has one of the highest tariffs in the world. We’re not going to put up with that, and they’ve agreed already to drop it. They’ll drop it to nothing. They’ve already agreed. They would have never done that for anybody else but me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke to reporters as they met in the Oval Office to discuss the US-Canada trade.
“So we’re going to put down some numbers and we’re going to say our country is open for business and they’re going to come in and they’re going to pay for the privilege of being able to shop in the United States of America. It’s very simple. It’s very simple,” he added.
In the past, Trump has called India “tariff king” and a “big abuser”.
Last month, Trump had said that negotiations with India over a bilateral trade deal are “coming along great” and he thinks “we’ll have a deal with India”.
