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Indian American kids create history at Intel competition

The Indian American high school children who were among the 40 finalists in the Intel Science Search competition -- often dubbed the Junior Nobel Prize convention -- may have failed to win any of......

Indian American teen wins Intel talent search

An Indian-American teenager has won a prestigious Science talent competition in the United States for his research on devising a more effective and less toxic breast cancer treatment, walking away......

World's foremost science journal gets Indian-American editor

Nothing stops you, except you, except your own imagination and your ability to do hard work, says Dr Inder M Verma. The Salk Institute molecular biologist, who was appointed editor in chief of the......

Top honour for 2 Indian American scientists

Two Indian American scientists -- Dr Romesh C Batra and Dr Kodi S Ravichandran -- were among the four Outstanding Scientists of 2011 honoured with the Governor's Award for Science Innovation by......

PM to scientists: Think big, think out of the box

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday inaugurated the 98th Indian Science Congress in Chennai. Following is the text of the Prime Minister's address on the occasion: "I am delighted to be here......

Academies stand by their findings on GM crops

The controversy over Bt brinjal refuses to die down with the country's six science academies today standing by their findings on 'limited release' of the GM crop despite Environment Minister Jairam......

Ratan Tata among American Academy Fellows

One of India's leading industrialist and two Indian American researchers have been elected as members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata......

10 Indians in elite US engineering body

In his 30-year-plus career as a scientist, technologist and entrepreneur, Dr Kanti Jain has achieved many milestones, including developing fabrication technologies for microelectronics such as......

S K Brahmachari is the new CSIR chief

Eleven months after RA Mashelkar retired from the leadership of India's apex research body, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the government on Monday appointed Samir K......

Indian statistician wins Abel prize

An Indian American, Srinivasa SR Varadhan of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, has won the 2007 Abel Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.The prize,......

Did the Oscars pick the perfect hosts?

Well done, Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. Buy yourself a drink, Oscar, you've earned it. I've routinely complained about all things Oscar -- including the choice of......

And the Oscar for 'Best Bollywood Film' is...

Indian Americanshave asked the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to introduce a new award category of 'Best Bollywood Film' for films made in India.Rajan Zed, a leader of the......

Why Paheli didn't get an Oscar nom

The Oscar nominations announcement for the 78th Academy Awards was certainly bad news for Bollywood film lovers and the Indian media.After the announcement, a Google search of the word Paheli......

Ash invited to present Oscar

Here's one more crown on Aishwarya Rai's lustrous head.She has been invited by the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences to present an Oscar on February 27.This is a first for Indian cinema; no......

Gowariker on Oscar Jury

Ashutosh Gowariker has finally been inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a member of the Directors branch. The AMPAS is the body that confers the Oscar awards every......

'Selection process pretty good'

Brijesh Patel, chairman of India's cricket selectors,is alsoinvolvedwith the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore asdirector. It has been nine months since he took over the reins of the selection......

Former EPL player to mentor SESA football academy

Sesa Football Academy signed former English Premier League (EPL) player Terry Phelan as their chief mentor at an event in Panaji.The latest development is meant to create a positive impact and take......

Toiling Tiger fails to shine at his favoured Firestone lair

Tiger Woods has reigned supreme at Firestone Country Club over the last decade although he found very little to savour at the venue as he struggled in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational first round......

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Q. which songs are nominated for Oscars This year ?
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Q. one more indian movie songs nominated for oscars ! name the movie
Angel: A. hree songs from Indian film "DAM 999" are among 39 shortlisted numbers in contention for nominations in the Original Song category for...... more

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Q. What happened to Scientist Radhakrishna?
Angel: A. Venkatraman Radhakrishnan (born on 18 May 1929) is an internationally renowned space scientist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences....... more

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The bards take wings with a DSLR

In the final year of their MA communication programme at University of Hyderabad, Gautami and Manikrishna were selected for a UN-funded internship... ...

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Apex body stays transgenic trials

The Association of Biotech-Led Enterprises - Agriculture Group (ABLE AG) - the industry body representing agri-biotechnology companies, has sought... ...

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Mrinal-Ritwik-Tapan films in dire need of being restored

d of being restored The writer has posted comments on this article Zinia SenZinia Sen , TNN | May 18, 2013, 12.00 AM IST Madhabi Mukherjee in... ...

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'Regular revision is the key'

Most schools in the city affiliated to ICSE and ISC have recorded cent per cent results in both the examinations, the results of which were... ...

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If we feel ignored, that's exactly what the Chinese want

Seeing a sinister design behind every Chinese utterance will only make it more difficult to negotiate a settlementListening to a retired... ...

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