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I hope Rajini's colour is not saffron: Haasan at Harvard University

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has made it clear that any political alliance with superstar Rajinikanth is unlikely if his colour is 'saffron', in an apparent reference to the......

Murty's $5.2 m grant for Harvard's Indian series

Three years from now, when the Harvard University Press, a major publisher of nonfiction, scholarly and general interest books, marks its 100th anniversary, it will also publish the first book in......

2 scientists share medicine Nobel for discovery of microRNA

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene......

How Subramanian Swamy Escaped Arrest During The Emergency

'Is it right and proper for the US authorities to allow people like Subrahmanya Swamy go round the country preaching murder, violence, overthrow of the duly elected Government of India?' A......

'Gandhi did not oppose science'

Professor Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York. He is also director of Columbia's Heyman Center for the Humanities. A Rhodes Scholar, the......

IIM-A joins Harvard forum

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has strengthened its international presence by linking up with the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations.HPAIR is Harvard University's......

RSS-linked outfit wants "Harvard" mindset out of government

'These Harvard University-educated people, with knowledge limited to the small states there, apply it in a huge country like India, which is not practical at all.' The RSS-linked Bharatiya Mazdoor......

MIT congratulates Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo

MIT, in a release, said the 'work of Duflo and Banerjee has emphasised the use of field experiments in research, to bring the principles of laboratory-style randomised, controlled trials to......

7 Indians feature in Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy list

Image: Sunny Varkey. Photograph: Rediff Archives Seven Indians feature in Forbes Asia's ninth Heroes of Philanthropy list, highlighting most noteworthy contributions to philanthropy from......

Economics Nobel for India-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, M Kremer

The trio introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty IMAGE: The portraits of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kreme, who......

Medical experts want Rio Olympics delayed or moved due to Zika

IMAGE: A municipal worker stands next to a banner that reads, "Rio Carnival 2016" before spraying insecticide to prevent the spread of Zika's vector. Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters More than......

What will happen to brand Sharapova now?

Sharapova fallout shows sponsors have no tolerance for banned drugs IMAGE: Maria Sharapova. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images. In the day following Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova's......