| |9 July 2018HIGHERReviewEDUBUZZEDUBUZZAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu re-cently announced that the Andhra Pradesh's new capital city Amaravati is a dream capital and will be an innovation hub. Assuring the uniqueness of the Amaravati city, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Chief Naidu said it will com-prise of nine cities -- media city, sports city, government city, justice city, finance city, knowledge city, tourism city, electronics city and health city. According to the state gov-ernment, the media city will be the center for cultural and heritage activities and developed with a long-term vision to host international events. He further expressed his com-mitment towards the project shared that Andhra Pradesh will eventually emerge into the best state to work and live in the country and make it the innovation valley; Amravati being the hub of this innovation. The government's vision 2036 for the Media City at Amaravati is to develop it into a world-class media hub with a long-term vision to host International events like Cannes Film festival and Grammy awards. Reportedly, Amravati will be India's first future city that will fuel the growth of the country, particularly southern parts of India. Amravati will compete with the world's top global cities. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, in a ma-jor step to take forward its widening outreach to India, including in student recruitment and collaborations in cutting-edge research inaugurated its new premises in the Indian capital as Australia announced its intent about making India a major focus of its economic and diplomat-ic strategy with education as a "flagship sector". Located in Sydney, Australia's student city, UNSW is one of the world's leading research and teaching universities and is home to more than 52,000 students from nearly 120 countries. UNSW is ranked 45th in the world, according to QS World University ranking. From Australian High Commissioner to India Harinder Sidhu graced the inau-guration of the center, located in the Jasola commercial complex in New Delhi, while UNSW Pro-Vice-Chancel-lor (International) Laurie Pearcey flew down especially to attend the event. Addressing the select gathering at the event, High Commissioner Sidhu, who is of Indian origin in an increasingly multiracial Australia, termed the opening of the new office "a big milestone" in the bilateral relationship with India. Amit Dasgupta, who has also served as consul-general in Melbourne and is pre-sent India Country Director of UNSW, said the India engagement of UNSW started modestly and has "gone from strength to strength, and he believes the best is yet to come".Amaravati to Turn into an Innovation HubEducation a top priority in ties with India says Australian envoy at the opening of UNSW office
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