Britain's prestigious University of Cambridge has unveiled plans to launch a new admissions programme for India this year as part of UK-India Year of Culture celebrations. <br/><br/>The elite university, which counts three former Indian Prime Ministers – Jawarharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh – among its alumni, announced this week that admissions staff will be travelling to India to visit schools and meet students face-to-face in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.<br/><br/>Cambridge is home to three major joint UK-India centres – in cancer research, anti-microbial resistant tuberculosis and crop science. It has 85 collaborative research partnerships across India in fields from the arts and humanities to entrepreneurship to the sciences and technology.