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No Indian varsity among world's top 200 univs

No Indian varsities, including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, figure among world's top 200 universities this year while six Chinese universities were listed, signalling the rapid......

India has no plan to upgrade education!

Until fifty years ago there were several world class universities in India: Allahabad, Bombay, Calcutta, and Delhi are names that come to mind. Some of the world's greatest scientists of the......

Why India deserves a better Food Security Bill

'Any meaningful food security programme should aim at gradually reducing the number of hungry dependent on government support,' says Devinder Sharma. 'This is only possible if the government had......

Obama's superstars to aid Indian American Ro Khanna

Indian American Ro Khanna might not have got the support of the US President Barack Obama, but he has managed to rope in some of the top superstars of his 2012 presidential elections for the......

Invest in the poor, tax the rich

Most rich and upper-middle class Indians are greatly under-taxed. Worse, the government annually writes off over Rs 5 lakh crores through exemptions. This practice must be ended if the......

E-readiness: India ranks 58

India ranks 58 in the world on e-readiness ranking -- an important measure of a digital society, Minister of State for Information Technology Sachin Pilot informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.......

4 Indians among world's top 50 business gurus

Four Indians figure amongst the world's top 50 management gurus, according to The Thinkers 50 2005 -- a ranking by the European Foundation for Management Development.The four Indians on the elite......

IITs, world's 3rd best tech universities

There's another feather in the much-adorned IIT cap.The United Kingdom-based Times Higher Education Supplement has ranked the Indian Institutes of Technology as the third best technology......

China wealth fund, Commerce Min to get new heads

China will likely appoint savvy international dealmakers to run its giant sovereign wealth fund and Commerce Ministry in a soft power push to soothe fears over a planned spending spree to boost......

Brookings set to open its centre in India

Brookings Institution, a non-profit public policy organisation based in Washington DC, announced it would open Brookings India as a platform for public policy research and analysis. The......

Go Across The Universe!

There are two kinds of people in this world,' Mia Wallace told Vincent Vega in an unshot scene from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. 'Elvis people and Beatles people.'Across The Universe is a......

Bollywood cheers Osama's death

The world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden is dead. As US President Barack Obama confirmed the news, Bollywood stars tweeted furiously about it. Minissha Lamba tweeted: 'Osama is Dead.......

Black 'n' white films we'd love to see in colour

K S Asif's Mughal-E-Azam surprised us with colour. Naya Daur didn't work as well. Dev Anand's Hum Dono was an absolute delight. And now Dharmendra's Haqeeqat is apparently making it's way to......

'India has great potential as a table tennis nation'

Former World champion Peter Karlsson said that India has the potential to be a top nation in table tennis and the next 10-15 years will augur well for the sport in the country. ......

CCI-ITF: Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan to meet Pavic for title

India's Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, seeded six, will meet Croatia's unseeded Mate Pavic in the final of the USD 15,000 CCI-ITF men's Futures Tennis Tournament on Saturday after the two left handers......

New Zealand's Eden Park to host first Test since 2006

Auckland's Eden Park will host Test cricket for the first time since 2006 when the world's top-ranked team England tour New Zealand early next year, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said on Thursday. The......

McCullum, Taylor keep Kiwis' hopes against SA alive

Captain Ross Taylor and Brendon McCullum kept New Zealand's slim hopes of scoring 401 runs to beat South Africa in the first Test alive after they helped the hosts reach 137 for two at the close of......

Smith, Kallis tons puts South Africa in charge

South Africa skipper Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis both scored centuries and combined for a 200-run partnership as the tourists virtually batted New Zealand out of the first Test by the close of......

People speak for world university rankings

QNA

Q. What is matter? How are we supposed to understand and assess it?
Truth Exposed: A. more

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Q. Why Indian Universities fail to make it to the big league of World's Top Universities in terms of rankings?
Dharamender Nebhnani: A. As may be established through observation, matter is not the thing served so that everything may be ascribed to it. It is rather the servant. It...... more

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Q. Harvard falls further in world university rankings says a news report..what is your reaction to this..is such a news report credible?
Dharamender Nebhnani: A. we are not compitive more

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Youth For Human Rights Supports Sunscreen Film Festival

For the past five years, Youth for Human Rights, supported by the Scientology Churches of the Tampa Bay area, has been one of the sponsors of the... ...

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India to lobby foreign agencies for improving university rankings

Absence of Indian institutes from top 200 list an embarrassment, say HRD ministry, Planning Commission Prashant K. Nanda In the THE World... ...

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Announce Academic Collaboration

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced an affiliation agreement to collaborate on... ...

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French split over English at universities

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Launches Two Online Degree Programs in Information Systems

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is now offering a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems (BS IS) and a Master of Science in... ...

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