'There is room for cautious optimism following the Harris anointment that America will return this year to more normal politics after the aberration of the Trump presidency,' points out Shreekant Sambrani.
Presidential scholar and physicist Abhilasha Gokulan shares her journey.
Veteran basketball player James Donaldson has advised sportspersons dealing with mental health issues to stay away from cell phones and social media.
When it comes to schools, there are no quick fixes, discovers Bill Gates.
The Bangalore police on Sunday arrested a school's skating instructor in connection with the rape of a six year old. The police said that a laptop seized from the accused also contained child pornography and videos of school children being raped.
School Education Minister Vijay Shah says if successful, the proposal will be sent to make this must in all govt schools.
The senior at the West Windsor Plainsboro North High School, Plainsboro, New Jersey, recently wielded the epee to good effect to win the gold medal in the National Fencing Tournament's North American Cup's Division II Women's epee event in Atlanta, Georgia. She beat 95 others, and raised her national rating to a creditable 'B'.
Ajit Balakrishnan on the emerging crisis in the tech world.
The eight-time Olympic champion said his focus now is on his business endeavours.
What does the National Educational Policy 2020 mean for students, parents and teachers?
Well-known among the Silicon Valley elite, Vishal Sikka is the first external CEO for Infy.
In the fourth part of a series profiling Presidential Scholars, Arthur J Pais speaks with 15-year-old Surabhi Beriwal
A well known figure among the Silicon Valley elite, Sikka recently quit his job at SAP.
On a recent sojourn to the Swiss Alps, Lakshmi Sharath just happened to meet Roger Federer :-)
Dr Kalam continues to live in the imagination of the people of this nation and remains a role model for the youth and missile and space scientists who are diligently following his vision to achieve new laurels for India, notes S M Khan, who served as President Kalam's press secretary.
The prime minister walked a certain distance to greet people standing on both sides of the road outside the polling booth. Later, he stood on the foot-board of his car and waived to the crowd.
16-year-old Greta Thunberg had earlier said world leaders were behaving like children about climate change.
He is just 4 feet 5 inches tall, but 11-year-old Julian Newman has already proved that height is not a big factor in basketball, a sport traditionally dominated by tall men.
In the third part of a series profiling Presidential Scholars, Arthur J Pais meets Pranita Basulu who uses her earnings to help children and train women for self-defence.
South Korean rescue boats and helicopters scrambled to pluck passengers, most of them high school students, from a ferry as it listed and slowly sank off the country's southwest coast on Wednesday.
Six Indian-American high school juniors and 19 others, all named 'Leaders of Tomorrow', will discuss ways to heal the ills faced by society at a meeting later this month on the Bentley College campus at Waltham, Massachusetts. The students are winners of the 2008 Tomorrow 25, an international leadership competition for high school juniors organised by Bentley College, in cooperation with Time magazine.
A key White House staffer who was fired after it came to light that he was behind a Twitter account that dished out gossip and pointed barbs at the Obama Administration is an Indian-American.
Teachers are responding to US President Donald Trump's suggestion that arming teachers would prevent more school shootings and are using the hashtag #ArmMeWith to demand better school supplies and mental health resources, not guns.
The Intel STS competition, often called the 'junior Nobel Prize', is said to be America's oldest and most prestigious high school science competition.
Obama and his wife Michelle are enjoying their new-found freedom holidaying in the British Virgin Islands with British billionaire Sir Richard Branson. Sir Richard posted an online blog showing pictures and video of the former president kitesurfing at his private island.
Tanishq Abraham graduated from American River College in Sacramento, California.
'In an era defined by vengeful anger, he was a star who sang and danced while most others hollered and hectored on the big screen,' remembers Saibal Chatterjee.
Not just in the fight against COVID-19, but also in politics, economics and society, observes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Although parental monitoring did not directly influence alcohol consumption in college, the researchers found evidence that high school drinking mediates the relationship between the two factors. Thus, the higher the drinking in high school, the higher the drinking in college.
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira brought an energetic jolt of Latina star power to Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show, delivering hip-shaking choreography and a medley of infectious hits to one of the world's glitziest stages. Latin artists Bad Bunny and J Balvin appeared as surprise guests in the extravaganza, which signaled its Latin American influences from the onset, when Shakira greeted the stadium audience in Spanish with "Hola, Miami."
More power to these wonderful women!
Through her non profit organisation Everybody Code Now! Swetha Prabhakaran, 15, has taught several students how to code and turned them into confident professionals.
Actor Sumanth talks about his new film Emo Gurram Egaravachu
Spider-Man: Far From Home moves to and fro between light-hearted slice-of-teen life and an underprepared Avenger second guessing what's right, real and responsible, notes Sukanya Verma.
Birla was the chairman of Century Textiles and Industries and had been active in business since the age of 15. He was instrumental in a slew of business initiatives, starting with his stint as the chairman of Kesoram Industries.
Five school children were killed and two others injured when a truck crashed through the school boundary wall and hit them on the outskirts of Ludhiana Industrial Town on Friday.
'The phone rang on the night of January 15.' 'The voice of an Indian family friend in Venezuela came on.' 'That morning, there had been an accident on the highway'. 'My father had died on the spot.' Radha Roy Biswas reveals her heart-warming and heart-breaking relation with a country drowning in economic chaos.
Instead of taking up a plush corporate job, Shadab Hassan chose to start a school for underprivileged children.
What the Indian economy looks like next January will influence her view on India, not her genetics, notes Shekhar Gupta.
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