2019 election and the brown man's burden

'The anti-India biases of the Western elite can be attributed to the unease these privileged nations feel at the rise of Asian nations like India and China.''But what ought to shock all......

Top honour for Indian solar physicist

Dibyendu Nandi of Kolkata has been named as the first space scientist from Asia-Pacific region to be honoured by the prominent American Astronomical Society. Nandi, from the Indian Institute of......

Elephants know maths. Read this to believe!

Elephants can sum small numbers with almost 90 per cent accuracy, says a researcher. Naoko Irie, a researcherof the University of Tokyo in Japan, has revealed that an Asian elephant named Ashya......

8 all-rounders win US Congressional gold medals

Shefali Kotta Madhusudhan, who graduated last month from West Windsor Plainsboro High School South, New Jersey, has put in more than 800 hours work in community volunteering, personal development,......

M S Swaminathan on the perils of Bt brinjal

The father of the Green Revolution explains how the genetically-modified version of brinjal may kill biodiversity. He introduced high-yielding wheat varieties in India to feed a country struggling......

'India will become bigger than the US!'

"By mid century India could overtake the United States by absolute size," says Jeffrey D Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Millennium Development Goals and one of the world's......

US losing tech edge to India

US technological superiority, long taken for granted, may be slipping and 'the most serious threat' is coming from Asian countries like India, China, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, a media......

ISSF ratifies Heena Sidhu's world pistol mark

The world record set by Heena Sidhu-Pandit, who became the first Indian pistol shooter to bag an ISSF-World Cup Finals gold last November, has been ratified by the world shooting body. Heena shot a......