Hong Kong's COVID-19 lessons for the world

'The rate of transmission of COVID-19 in Hong Kong was 0.7 -- anything below 1 suggests the epidemic is receding.''The city-State achieved this without the de facto police-State curfew that India......

Rakesh Khurana appointed Harvard College dean

Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower professor of Leadership Development at HarvardBusinessSchool, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and co-master of Cabot House, was named......

Panjab University beats IITs in global rankings

In the recently released Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Panjab University makes a stunning entry among the top 400 universities in the world. Read on to find out how other......

Likely Nobel prize winners for 2014

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2013 “Nobel-class” Citation Laureates on Wednesday, which names 28 researchers representing 22 distinct academic and......

The visionary who made Indian IT industry global

One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968.At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.They......

How Banerjee-Duflo's economic theory is relevant for India

For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the “beneficiaries” -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is......

Hart and Holmstrom win Economics Nobel for work on contract theory

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 to Oliver Hart of Harvard and Bengt Holmstrom of Massachusetts......

'Great danger India will waste its demographic dividend'

'... for two reasons: the poor quality of education, and the low rate of female participation in the labour force.' 'Unless something is done quickly to remedy these problems, India will just have......

Rafi's Toote Hue Kwaabon Ne, unplugged

We have invited readers to send us videos of them singing Mohammad Rafi songs to mark the occasion of Rafisaab's 29th death anniversary on July 31, to celebrate the eternal legend's......

South Africa thrash England

England recorded their lowest total in a Twenty20 international as South Africa bowled them out for just 111 before easing to a seven-wicket win in the World Cup second round match on Thursday.......