'I told them India was like a giant jumbo jet. It would take off slowly and be unstoppable'

This doctor couple put their faith in India. And in return India has put faith in them. IMAGE: The Parikhs in Paris in 1984. On December 5, 1988, a cold winter evening, an Air India plane touched......

Biden unveils health team; names Vivek Murthy as surgeon general

United States President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his health team on Monday, naming Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy as his Surgeon......

Indian-American physician named co-chair of Biden's Covid task-force

Indian-American physician Dr Vivek Murthy on Monday was named one of the three co-chairs of the COVID-19 task-force that will guide President-elect Joe Biden on dealing with the coronavirus......

American Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize for Literature

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the United States poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."......

India's billionaires' success mantras

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, worth about 7,300 crores, is India's richest entrepreneur under 40 according to Hurun's India Rich List for 2016.Anil Rai Gupta, along with his brother Vinod, has been valued......

Modi must heed Indian economists, not only NRI ones

'The time has come to incorporate Indian sociology into economic policy.''The first step in that direction would be to listen to economists trained in India and not just the US and the UK, argues T......

'Work for the govt?' Yes, say Ivy League profs, Silicon Valley techies

Advertisement on mygov.in gets 8,000 applications and counting; govt to maintain bank of CVs for future use In a row of non-descript rooms along the third floor corridor at Electronics Niketan in......

Modi now has the world's finest economic team: Bhagwati

The days of anti-reform, anti-growth advisers that undermined our economy in the UPA-II years will now be strictly behind us: Bhagwati Globally acclaimed economist Jagdish Bhagwati hailed the......