What The World Needs: A Fellowship of Minds

'They don't always agree with our governments, their teachers or their parents, but it is the conviction of their ideas, and their determination to share them with the world that, I believe, is one......

'PM Modi's Silicon Valley visit will inspire GenNext to dream big'

'To see India’s leader (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) hobnobbing with Silicon Valley's tech czars and making an impression on them and selling the Digital India story to them is super cool......

Controversies take their toll on Nalanda University, peers race ahead

For an institution looking to revive past glory, the Nalanda University's initial days have been far from glorious. The university, in the tourist town of Rajgir in Bihar's Nalanda district, could......

Full text: What Modi, Obama agreed on

This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama assessed the......

'Economy is getting a Covid 2.0 shock'

'To reduce the shock to the economy, the time has come for the fiscal to step up.' IMAGE: The lockdown has hit hard the weaker sections of Indian society. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo The......

Edtech start-up Eruditus gets funding from Zuckerberg duo

Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech,......

Death knell for printed books, newspapers?

Or a brief stop on the way to better times, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   The extended, multi-month lockdown has meant that in most parts of the world......

'Big guys r**e the economy'

'When you forgive a farmer's loans there is this ideological economists lobby which says: 'That's socialism. And that's bad'.''But to forgive the loans of big people, so that they will be......