Ever wondered how your pet dog knows exactly where food is hidden? Our canine companions can adopt human perspective to correctly interpretcues and find treats that they cannot see themselves, a new study has found.

By adopting the position of a human and following their gaze, dogs understand what the human could see and consequently know, researchers said.

The Theory of Mind describes the ability inhumans to understand mental states in other humans such as emotions, intentions, knowledge, beliefs and desires, said researchers from Messerli Research Institute in Austria.

This ability develops in humans within the first four or five years of life while it is usually denied in animals, researchers said.

Researchers conducted the Guesser-Knower paradigm – a standard test in research into the attribution of knowledge to others.

This experiment involves two persons, a "Knower" who hides food, invisibly for the dog, in one of several food containers or knows where somebody else has hidden it, and a "Guesser".

The Guesser has either not been in the room or covered her eyes during the hiding of the food.

A non-transparent wall blocks the animals' view of the food being hidden. After that, the two humans become informants by pointing to different food containers.

The Knower always points to the baited container and the Guesser to another one. All containers smell of food.

The Finance Ministry may request capital market regulator Sebi to extend the August deadline for PSBs to meet 25 per cent public float norm as it mulls various options to pare government stake in state-run banks.

There are seven public sector banks (PSBs), including United Bank of India, Indian Bank, Bank of Maharashtra and Central Bank of India, where the government holding is above 75 per cent.

Post second round of capital infusion in March, the government stake in some more banks could go beyond 75 per cent.

As per guidelines of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), government stake in PSUs should be 75 per cent or less by August 2017.

“Effort is there to meet the Sebis public float guidelines but in case some banks are unable due to market condition, then we will approach the regulator seeking exemption from minimum public shareholding (MPS) requirement of 25 per cent in those cases,” a Finance Ministry official said.

There are still five months to go and various options are on the table, like public offer and selling stake to LIC, the official added.

There are four PSU banks where government holding is more than 80 per cent, while it is between 75-80 per cent in three lenders as of December 2016.

Government holding in United Bank of India is at 88.72 per cent, followed by Indian Bank (82.10 per cent), Bank of Maharashtra (81.61 per cent), Central Bank of India (81.28 per cent), Punjab and Sind Bank (79.62 per cent), Indian Overseas Bank (79.56 per cent) and Uco Bank (76.67 per cent).

There is also the option of creating a structure like the Special National Investment Fund (SNIF), another official said, adding this is not under consideration at present but if need be, it could be looked at to meet the MPS norm.

The government has approved setting up of Special National Investment Fund to help sick PSUs. The fund is maintained outside the Consolidated Fund of India.

Twitter has dropped a lawsuit against the US government after the administration withdrew its demand for user data of an account critical of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

"Because the summons are now withdrawn, Twitter voluntarily dismisses without prejudice all claims against Defendants in the above-captioned matter," the company said in a court filing on Friday.

Twitter filed the suit on Thursday with a US district court in San Francisco, Efe news reported.

The summons, issued on March 14 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sought to force the social media giant to reveal the identity of the person or persons using the anonymous account @ALT_USCIS.

The account features criticism of Trump administration policy from a purported current employee of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (Uscis), an agency within DHS.

Besides attacking immigration measures, the account highlighted waste and mismanagement in Uscis and in DHS as a whole.

@ALT_USCIS is one of a number of "alt-gov" accounts to arise since Trump's January 20 inauguration and the new administration's clampdown on career government employees' use of agencies' official social media accounts.

Such accounts have been established by dissidents at the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Park Service, among other elements of the government.

In the now-withdrawn suit, lawyers for the company said that the government could not compel Twitter to turn over the information unless several conditions were met.

This included "demonstrating that some criminal or civil offence has been committed."

Absent evidence of wrongdoing, the summons could be seen as "motivated by a desire to suppress free speech," Twitter said. 

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday offered prayers at the shrine of Khwaja Mouinuddin Chisti in Ajmer.

"She along with a few members of her delegation arrived at the dargah around 11 am and spent 30 minutes in the premises," Khadim Kamaluddin Chisti said.

"She wished for peace and prosperity in her country as well as good bilateral relations with India," the Khadim said.

Laying a chaadar over the mazaar, Hasina performed her 'ziyarat' with the help of Khadim Kamaluddin Chisti.

The dargah committee welcomed the Bangladesh Prime Minister at Buland Darwaja.

Dedicated to Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisti, the 13th century Sufi saint, the dargah is one of the most important pilgrimage centres for people from all faiths. Millions team in to Ajmer to offer prayers here every year from different parts of the world.

Unprecedented security arrangements were put in place at the dargah sharif here for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit. Dargah was also vacated before she reached Ajmer, 140 km from Jaipur.

The main bazaar near the dargah was closed.

Earlier, Hasina reached Jaipur on Sunday morning from where she with other members left for Ajmer in a helicopter, officials said.

Director SS Rajamouli's social media account on Twitter garnered three million followers on Sunday. The Baahubali series helmer has thanked fans for treating him as their family member.

"Three million hearts… You loved me, praised me, supported me, criticised me, helped me, enlightened me, treated me as your family. Thank you," the 43-year-old tweeted on Sunday.

In another tweet, he posted: "For those who like, for those who dislike. Please be who you are…I will be who I am."

He is also "very excited" for the Tamil audio release of his forthcoming film Baahubali 2: The Conclusion.

The first part – Baahubali: The Beginning was also re-released in Hindi on April 7 by filmmaker Karan Johar's Dharma Productions.

The second part in the franchise will hit the screens on April 28.

An estimated 45 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise till 2.30 pm on Sunday in the by-polls to two assembly constituencies in Karnataka.

Officials said Nanjanagud and Gundlupet each reported around 45 per cent voting.

The polls have been necessitated in Gundlupet and Nanjanagud following the death of Cooperation Minister Mahadeva Prasad and resignation of V Srinivas Prasad as a Congress MLA after he was dropped from the ministry, respectively.

Prasad is now the BJP candidate from Nanjangud while Congress has fielded Kalale Keshavamurthy, who had contested the 2013 Assembly polls on a JD(S) ticket.

In Gundlupet, Congress has fielded Mahadeva Prasad's wife Geeta Mahadeva Prasad while the BJP nominee is CS Niranjan Kumar.

Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's JD(S) has decided not to field its candidates for the by-polls and remain neutral.

The stakes are particularly high for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as he aims to continue his grip over the party and the government ahead of next year's Assembly elections, even as he faces dissidence from the party's old guard.

With both the seats held by Congress and in his home turf, retaining them has become a prestige issue for Siddaramaiah, who had devoted the last eight days for the campaign crisscrossing the constituency.

A total of 12 candidates are in the fray in Nanjanagud constituency, which has 2,01,815 voters.
In Gundlupete, nine candidates are contesting and a total of 2,00,860 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.

Along with police and home guard personnel, Karnataka State Reserve Police, District Armed Reserve and Central Armed Police Force units or platoons have also been deployed for the bypolls, officials said.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Sunday said there is no political solution to the conflict in Syria until President Bashar al-Assad is out of power.

"There's not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with Assad at the head of the regime," Haley told CNN in an interview airing on Sunday.

The Indian-origin diplomat's remarks came days after the US on April 6 unleashed 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airbase in a retaliating for the Assad-led government's alleged chemical weapons attack that killed nearly 80 persons in Idlib province.

Haley on Friday told a special session of the UN Security Council that the US was "prepared to do more" in Syria and that it was Washington's "vital national interest" to stop the use and spread of chemical weapons.

According to Haley, the Assad regime has committed atrocities on innocent Syrian civilians multiple times.

"It just — if you look at his actions, if you look at the situation, it's going to be hard to see a government that's peaceful and stable with Assad."

Syrian Deputy UN Ambassador Mounzer Mounzer denied the country's use of chemical weapons, stating at the UN session that Syria "would never use such weapons in any of its operations against armed terrorist groups".

Haley reiterated her statements about further actions in Syria in her interview to the CNN.

"If he needs to do more, he will do more," Haley said when asked if Trump would order more strikes.

"So, really, now what happens depends on how everyone responds to what happened in Syria, and make sure that we start moving towards a political solution, and we start finding peace in that area."

Haley said she thought a regime change would occur because "all of the parties are going to see that Assad is not the leader that needs to be taking place for Syria".

Haley noted that ousting Assad was not the US's only priority.

"So, there's multiple priorities," she said. "It's — getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat the IS. Secondly, we don't see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there." 

"Thirdly, get the Iranian influence out, and then, finally, move towards a political solution, because at the end of the day, this is a complicated situation."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday about the situation in Syria, a longtime Russian ally.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called the US strike "aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law".

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday called for a nationwide ban on slaughter of cows.

"We have been striving to protect the cow. Sampoorna Bharatvarsh me gauvansh hatya band hoye hamari ichha hai (We wish the killing of cows and its progeny should be banned in the entire country)," Bhagwat said at an event to mark the birth anniversary of Lord Mahavir Jain. 

He said it was for the government to make laws to this effect.

"Wherever in the state governments we have dedicated swayamsevaks, those state governments have brought in laws. But our desire is the law should be for the entire country," he added.

Bhagwat said any violence in the name of cow slaughter defames the cause, but added that those making efforts to save the cows should continue to do so.

In a tough challenge to team collaboration tool Slack, Facebook has announced to offer a version of Workplace for free.

Workplace, Facebook's messaging service for businesses, is one of the many products used by businesses to chat and share files within their select groups. 

According to a report in Fortune, the new free version announced by Facebook this week joins a previously announced paid version that premiered in 2016.

"The free standard version will offer one-to-one and group voice and video calling, streaming video, and chat for people with Apple iOS or Android devices as well as those on desktop PCs," the report noted. 

The social networking giant has been trying to venture more into business sphere. Facebook, for example, recently rolled out a feature that allows posting job notices — something that competes with Microsoft's LinkedIn. 

However, it is not clear yet when the free version will be available, but Facebook has said it would be available "soon" and hoped Workplace would connect everyone including people who only use mobile devices.

The Goa government has decided to adopt a carrot-and-stick approach to curb illegal extraction of mines.

The Goa Mines and Geology department announced that those informing about illegalities in extraction of mines would be rewarded while those indulging in unfair and accident prone transportation of ore would be punished.

Goa had witnessed a total ban on iron ore extraction after union government constituted M B Shah Commission pointed out at largescale illegalities in this trade.

The department, which is busy reviving the iron ore exports after two-and-half year long ban which was lifted in 2014, has now said that they will reward any mining firm who will point out the illegalities committed by fellow lease holder.

"If the lease holder reports the illegalities of another lessee, the person or the firm will be rewarded. And the one who is indulging in illegalities will be punished by reducing the iron ore extraction limit allotted to him," Director of Mines and Geology Prasanna Acharya said.

In a step to control accidental deaths caused by trucks which transport the ore, the department said "in case of accidental death involving the truck carrying ore, the production quota of the firm whose commodity (ore) it is carrying would be reduced up to one lakh ton per year." 

Goa currently has a ceiling to export 20 million tons of ore which is extracted through 80-odd mining leases.

"We are going for zero tolerance towards accidents in the mining belt. Not even a single death due to reckless driving by trucks carrying ore would be tolerated," Acharya said.

A complaint was filed against Arjun Rampal for allegedly assaulting a man in a club here on early Sunday, the city police said. But the actor claims the news is "untrue".

Arjun tweeted on Sunday: "Woke up to be flooded by messages of assaulting a fan? Man! Where do people make this news up from? Not assaulted anyone. Untrue. Fake news."

The incident occurred at Club Privee in a complex at Ashoka Road around 3.30 a.m. on Sunday.

According to the complaint, Arjun got infuriated over a photographer trying to click his photos.

He allegedly snatched the camera and threw it, which then hit Shobhit, the complainant, on his head and injured him.

"(Arjun) Rampal allegedly attacked a man with camera. An investigation is being done," Delhi Police spokesperson Madhur Verma told.

According to the police, the CCTV footage of the club is being investigated.

"I do not know why he threw the camera. I have lodged a police complaint but no action has been taken so far," said Shobhit.

In his tweet, Arjun termed it as a "fake news".
 

The UN children's agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar's government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping military campaign in Rakhine state.

More than 600 people were arrested in an army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the north of the restive state. The operation was launched after deadly attacks by militants on police posts in October.

Rohingya escapees in neighbouring Bangladesh, where more than 70,000 have fled, gave UN investigators accounts of beatings, torture and food deprivation inside the jails.

Minors are among those detained.

UNICEF's deputy executive director Justin Forsyth said he had given the country's de facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi details of around a dozen youngsters being held in Buthidaung prison.

"There are some children that are detained in prison, so those are the cases that we're raising," he told AFP late on Saturday at the end of a brief trip to Myanmar.

"Any child that's detained is an issue for us." 

Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi and Myanmar's army chief both recognised "that there's an issue here" but made no firm committment for their release, he added.

Government spokesman Zaw Htay declined to comment when contacted by AFP on Sunday.

The UN Human Rights Council has agreed to send a mission to Myanmar to probe allegations that troops and police raped, killed and tortured Rohingya in their months-long campaign.

Myanmar has rejected the accounts collected by UN investigators in the Bangladesh refugee camps, who said the crimes could amount to ethnic cleansing.

"I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening," Suu Kyi said in an interview with the BBC last week.

Myanmar's police and the military have both launched separate probes to investigate the deaths of at least eight people in custody in northern Rakhine.

UN rights envoy for Myanmar Yanghee Lee said some 450 people were being held in Buthidaung prison when she visited in January, most without access to lawyers or their families.

Myanmar has long faced criticism for its treatment of more than one million Rohingya, who are vilified as illegal "Bengali" immigrants and forced to live in apartheid-like conditions even though many have lived in the country for generations.

A group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army has claimed the October attacks, which it said were intended to defend the rights of the persecuted minority after years of worsening conditions.

Forsyth said there was a growing recognition among both Myanmar's civilian government and army that depriving Rohingya children of opportunities had bred militancy.

Actress Raviza Chauhan says that debuting in filmmaker Imtiaz Ali's short film was surreal.

Raviza, who comes from an Army background, got her first acting break as a sex worker in Ali's short film India Tomorrow. 

"After being appreciated by Mukesh Chhabra in the NDTV's show 'Ticket to Bollywood', the next day I got a call from him saying Imtiaz Ali wants to meet me. Then Imtiaz gave me a few lines and I was sitting with him in his car." 

"Within a day, I was in for the project. Working with a director like Imtiaz Ali for my first break was very surreal for me," Raviza said in an interview on Saturday.

"Working with him gave me a lot of confidence as an actor and it taught me a lot as far as my craft of filmmaking is concerned," she added. 

Raviza will soon make her Bollywood debut with Srijit Mukherji's directorial Begum Jaan.

"When Mukesh showed my short film to Srijit during selection for Begum Jaan, I was selected immediately without much effort," she said.

Talking about working with actress Vidya Balan in the film, Raviza said, "Working with Vidya was very special. This is my first film and working with Vidya in my first movie… was a privilege for me as an actor."

"Vidya is not just an amazing and a powerful actress, but at the same time she is so humble and sweet that I connected with her on a different level altogether."

In the film, the budding actress plays Lata. 

"She is a Rajasthani widow who ends up working in Begum Jaan's brothel. It is the gritty story of sex workers set in the Independence era who fight for their own rights," Raviza said.

Her thoughts on nepotism in the film industry?

She said: "Nepotism does exist in the industry, but as an actor you can't crib about it all the time. If an actor really knows how to act and is versatile enough, then nobody can throw them out…"

Begum Jaan has Vidya playing the lead character of a brothel house owner. It is the Hindi remake of the 2015 Bengali film Rajkahini.

Begum Jaan will release on April 14.

The Modi government, ahead of its third anniversary in power, has asked all ministers to submit their five major achievements that have benefitted people, including key reforms and comparative data reflecting the progress made since the BJP took office.

In a letter sent out this week, Information and Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu has asked all ministers to submit the data and observations to him.

It will be compiled in a booklet that the government plans to publish before May 26, the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi took charge three years ago. A copy of the letter was obtained by PTI.

In his letter, Naidu asked the ministers to send him "a three-page note in bullet form only". It said the note should cover five aspects: 

* Five major achievements of the ministry concerned which have benefitted the people or appreciated by the people.

* Key performance indicators of the ministry 

* Comparative data/statistics of flagship schemes of the ministry which signifies what was the position in 2014 and now in 2017. For example, how many LPG connections were there in 2014 and what is the number now in 2017.

* Three reforms brought by the ministry- process, policy, functioning, programmes, etc; and 

* Two top success stories in one paragraph each.

In an earlier letter dated March 21, Naidu urged the ministers and senior BJP leaders to communicate with the people on the positive changes that have been brought about by the Modi-led NDA government.

Asserting that the mood of the nation is clearly in "favour of the BJP and PM Modi", Naidu said, "We all take pride in being a member of Team Modi, whose relentless pursuit to turn around the fortunes of millions of people, hitherto neglected by successive governments, is bearing visible fruits." 

"… We must prepare concrete action plan and be ready with facts, figures, data to propagate the government's achievements in a big way," he said.

According to the letter, the government has made a list of ministers who would prepare note on specific sectoral topics assigned to them.

Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar has been asked to prepare a note on the highlights of the prime minister's tour abroad, major outcomes from those tours and increased investment flows from foreign countries.

Similarly, MPs Swapan Dasgupta and Chandan Mitra have been assigned to compile a note on intellectual discourse and counter any possible negative narrative on topics like less than promised employment generation, so-called threats to freedom of expression among others.

The Assam government on Sunday announced a draft population policy which suggested denial of government jobs to people with more than two children and making education up to university level free for all girls in the state.

"This is a draft population policy. We have suggested that people having more than two children will not be eligible for any government jobs," Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said at a press conference.

Any person getting a job after meeting this condition will have to maintain it till end of his service, he added.

"For employment generation schemes like giving tractors, offering homes and others government benefits, this two-children norm will be applicable. Besides, all elections such as panchayats, municipal bodies and autonomous councils held under the state election commission will also have this norm for candidates," Sarma said.

Sarma, who is also the Education minister, said the policy also aims to give free education to all girls up to university level.

"We want to make all facilities free, including fees, transportation, books and mess dues in hostels. This step is also likely to arrest the school dropout rate," he added.

Sarma further said the proposed population policy will seek to debate on increasing the legal age of marriage from 18 years for girls and 21 years for boys.

If anybody has child marriage then he will be ineligible for government job, the minister said.

The policy will also seek stringent laws to prevent violence and sexual abuse of women, he added.

"Besides, a proposal for providing incentives is also included for poor persons, who take care of their elderly parents. The policy will also care for the adolescents. We will work for public awareness and reach out through religious leaders, NGOs, parliamentarians and media in this regard," Sarma said.

The policy proposes to set up a State Population Council and a State Population Research Centre, he added.

The minister also said he will consider including a provision for giving 50 per cent reservation to women in government jobs and elections.

"Till July, we will seek public suggestions. Then it will go to the Assembly for debate and adopting a resolution.

We have to go step by step and we are in no hurry. This is the long-term thing that BJP had promised in the Vision Document," Sarma said.

Service rules of 48 departments will have to be amended for adopting the proposed policy, he said, adding it will take at least three years and he will be happy if the policy takes the final shape by next Assembly polls in 2021.

"We want to move from primarily a medical-led policy to a socially responsible policy. We want to have a behavioural change and there will be policy incentives. Assam's current population is 3.12 crore as per 2011 Census and it increased by one crore from 2001," Sarma said.

Bollywood actor Vidya Balan will be the brand ambassador of silk materials produced in Jharkhand.

She agreed to become the brand ambassador after Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das told her that it would help people engaged in silk production, an official release said here.

Besides Balan, Begam Jan director Sirijit and producer Mahesh Bhatt were also in Ranchi on Sunday.

A recent report released by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers reflected a sharp decline in students’ applications from India, with undergraduate applications falling by 26 per cent and that for graduate programmes by 15 per cent. This comes in the light of strict immigration policies announced by the Donald Trump administration, limiting international students from exploring gateways to work in the country after their studies. A similar situation has hit the United Kingdom, thanks to its constant tightening of the immigration policies barring a large number of students from even staying back in the country after their education. The United States and the United Kingdom have been the two most popular education hubs for study abroad aspirants. While they continue to be among the first in the list of any student, reports suggests foreign education aspirants are increasingly exploring new destinations to fulfil their dreams, mainly because of these countries’ liberal visa policies. Additionally, quality education and an already set-up community of Indians make these countries the new destinations for Indian students.

1. Canada: 

The second most sought after destination in North America after the USA, Canada hosts the fifth largest contingent of international students in the world. Interestingly, Indians form the second biggest international students’ community in Canada, with the number steadily rising over the years. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada(CIC), currently, there are over 50,000 international students in Canada. Need more reason to start applying? Canada boasts some of the best universities in Business, Engineering, Hospitality and Animation among others. Universities like Toronto University, University of British Columbia, Alberta rank among the top 100 universities in the world.  While academic benefit is one area, Canada’s liberal work permit programme allows international students to stay back and work in the country for a period equivalent to length of their programmes. In fact, after a few years of work experience, students can apply for citizenship under the express entry system.

2. Germany: 

Thanks to its highly subsidised tuition fee, Germany has gained quite a lot of popularity in recent times. Germany has abolished tuition fees – the largest chunk in terms of expenses related to studying abroad – for bachelors and consecutive master’s degree programmes in its public universities. The country has also expanded the reach of English language programmes, thus taking off the language barrier hurdle in its classrooms. It does not come as a surprise that Germany’s steadily rising international students’ community has crossed 3,40,000(ICEF monitor). And just like in Canada, Indian students (13,500) constitute the second largest international students’ community. In addition,Germany has also eased its work permit programme to accommodate more international students in its work system. Students have the option of applying for Residence Permit which allows them to stay back in the country for 18 months even without a job.  While Engineering tops the list of subjects pursued by foreign students in the country, many students also opt for Mathematics and Computer Science. 

3. Australia:  

While cases of racism might have pulled down Australia from the radar of expectant international students from India, Australia has bounced back in recent times, thanks to a liberal work after study programme. Interestingly, many international students, especially, from India join the short-term vocational training colleges and apply for post-study work visa through the graduate work stream, which allows students to stay back and work for 18 months. It is, however, applicable to only to those candidates whose qualifications ensure jobs listed on the Skilled Occupation List of Australia. Students pursuing the full-time two year programmes can however take the post study work visa route, which allows them to stay back for two to four years. According to the Australian Government’s international students’ data, the country, currently, hosts more than 3,80,000 international students, of which, over 40,000 are Indians.  Besides, vocational programmes, Australia is popular for its business management and engineering programmes. 

4. New Zealand: 

A country famous for its Private training Establishments or PTEs, New Zealand’s liberal work visa policy and the Pathways visa scheme has helped rake in a lot of international students in the last few years. The Pathways visa allows students to stay in the country for up to five years and pursue maximum of three courses within that time. Like in most of the above mentioned countries, here too, Indians students form the second biggest international students’ community with over 20,000 of its 50,000 international students going from India. Around eight universities from New Zealand are listed among the top 500 universities in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds Ranking with business management and Engineering being the most sought after subjects. 

4. Singapore: 

Singapore is being increasingly reckoned as an education hub, especially, for management and technology aspirants from India.  One of the biggest benefit of pursuing studies in Singapore, is that majority of the international students receive some kind of grant, either from the university or the government. One of the most famous grants, The Ministry of Education grant, helps subsidise up to 80 per centTop study destinations beyond USA, UK of the student’s tuition fee. What more? The grant requires that international students stay back and work in the country for three years after the completion of their programmes. Two most popular universities – National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) – rank among the top 50 universities in the World.