Preet Bharara among 4 Indian-Americans honoured with Great Immigrants award

Four Indian-Americans, including top US attorney Preet Bharara, are among 38 distinguished personalities who have been honoured with this year's prestigious "Great Immigrants: The Pride of America"......

Why the rich give gold to temples

'Rich Indians don't give cash, they give gold. Why?''Because cash is spent by temples on prasad or doing some charitable work.''Gold remains intact with god,' says Aakar Patel. Next year will mark......

Why Great Men Worship Light of Asia

Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V......

The Power of Assured Indian Innovation

Can we make high speed 4G Internet available at 10 cents per GB, and make all voice calls free of cost -- that too in a large and diverse country like India? Can we make high-quality but simple......

Carnegie Mellon receives $35 million gift from TCS

Largest industry gift to CMU and largest gift from outside US will support new facility and student scholarships Hamerschlag and Roberts Halls are two of the teaching facilities of the College of......

Meet L N MIttal, king of steel

It's a neat three-in-one for steelmaker extraordinaire Lakshmi Mittal. In one fell swoop he has become the globe's biggest steelmaker -- an Andrew Carnegie for the 21st century. Simultaneously, he......

Buffett donates $37 billion for charity

In what is believed to be the largest charitable gift made in the United States, the world's second richest man Warren Buffet plans to donate the bulk of his $44-billion (Rs 202,840 crore) fortune......

Why I salute Azim Premji

'Azim Premji has given away about one-and-a-half lakh crore rupees of his wealth.''Most of us will not even know what that sum actually means.''To put it into context, it can fund India's health......

'Jay Shah Said Keep Clapping Till India Wins'

The most powerful man in world cricket today himself retrieved the ball from amidst the seats and threw it back onto the field.It was then that everyone realised Jay Shah is a left-hander. IMAGE:......