Daud Sharifa Khanum fights for Muslim women's rights

Based in Pudukkottai, a small town in Tamil Nadu, Daud Sharifa Khanum heads the Tamil Nadu Muslim Women's Jamaat, a network of some 25,000 Tamil Muslim women working for Muslim women's rights and......

US: Professor gets $575,000 grant for research

A North Dakota State University professor who is seeking to develop environmentally benign ways to synthesise chirals, molecules that cannot be superimposed in their mirror images, has received a......

Welcome to India's best school

At the Central Board of Secondary Examination's class XII board exams, DAV Boys Senior Secondary School in Gopalapuram, Chennai, has created history.All of its students passed first class with......

Aadhaar-based PDS reforms fail the last-mile test

Last-mile verification with Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication have the worst record among other options available to check PDS pilferage. So the Centre’s insistence on that option......

Govt to set up finishing schools for graduates

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has decided to start finishing schools which would impart skills to the graduates while also brushing-up their knowledge of core subjects. These finishing......

An IT Academy in Tamil Nadu soon

The sixth edition of Connect 2006, jointly organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Government of Tamil Nadu was inaugurated on Friday by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. The theme of......

Donating money? A guide for you

"I can't help it so I give it all awayWhat you give you get back. . ." -- The ScorpionsIn Trichy, Sriram Srinivasan, professor of mathematics at the National Institute of Technology, helps educate......