'Vivek Kundra is going to do great things for US'

Vivek Kundra's impressive work in helping to operationalise United States Barack Obama's Presidential Transition Team's website had triggered speculations that he would be appointed to a senior......

Cope with India's needs, Kalam to scientists

The country's top armament scientists on Wednesday got a wake up call from President A P J Abdul Kalam who asked them to "transform" themselves to cope with the need for long-range missiles with......

TCS@50: Why India must be in eternal debt to F C Kohli

50 years ago, on April 1, 1968, Tata Consultancy Services -- now India's leading IT company -- was born.The foundation for TCS was laid by Faqir Chand Kohli whose life touched directly or......

IIT-K to go global, plans centres in US, Malaysia

The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpurplans to establish its presence in the US and Malaysia, besides Noida and Bengaluru. This will help the premier institute compete with top global......

NRI entrepreneur flays NYT over 'smear campaign'

Vinod 'Vin' Gupta, 60, the multi-millionaire chairman and CEO of infoUSA and focus of a major article in the New York Times in the Washington Post on May 26 regarding a lawsuit that brandshis using......

'Nation building, top priority for IIT-ians'

Pradeep Gupta is an engineer from IIT Delhi (1975) and an MBA from IIM Calcutta (1977). He is the chairman of the CyberMedia Group, South Asia's first and largest specialty media house, with......