Quick notes: Student visas, School admissions...

• To maintain its technological edge: US will limit visas for Chinese tech students



• Ireland takes on the Catholic Church: Under a school admissions bill that passed the lower house of the Irish parliament, Catholic elementary schools would be barred from discriminating in favor of children of their own “religious ethos.” ... when will secular India do this?



• New dimension: Chariot From Pre-Iron Age Found During Excavation in UP's Sanauli



• Ather Energy: The launch of this e-scooter is a moment of reckoning for India’s EV market. 



• Bike-friendly: Contributing to the larger movement of making Bengaluru roads friendly for cyclists, residents of Sanjaynagar plan to restrict motor vehicles to designated hours on certain days of every month.



• Ram Govind Hari: A treasure from Sant Kabir




• Reality check: Unlike the US and China which have hundreds of educational programmes in data science and AI, India has next-to-nothing. Only 4% of AI professionals in the country have worked on cutting-edge technologies like deep learning and neural networks. 



• Wipe out: Cumulative losses at public sector banks were large enough to wipe out almost all of the govt's capital injections of $13 billion in 2017-18



• Patanjali gets Yogi jolt: Rs 20 bn food park project not allowed in UP