''Madam, we want to salute you with flowers and cake'

'Society deals with you the way they do, or forms an opinion, depending on if your family is with you every step of the way.' IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational......

Biden appoints 2 Indian-Americans to advisory panel for trade policy

US President Joe Biden on Friday named two Indian-Americans -- Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, and Manish Bapna, CEO of the Natural Resources Defence Council -- to the advisory committee for trade......

Child sells bird food to help ailing sister

Shailajanand Mishra lists The Top Videos of the Week! Take a look. IMAGE: This 10 year old sells bird food to raise funds for his sister's cancer treatment. Photograph: ANI Photo   Every......

Harvard, MIT sue Trump administration over student visa row

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have filed a lawsuit against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's latest rule that bars international students from staying in......

How Banerjee-Duflo's economic theory is relevant for India

For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the “beneficiaries” -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is......

Innovative field research in India helped Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo win Economics Nobel

This year's Laureates have shown how the problem of global poverty can be tackled by breaking it down into a number of smaller - but more precise - questions at individual or group levels, he Royal......

How the blockchain can transform the financial world

The blockchain, the public ledger that tracks every bitcoin transaction, is changing commerce as we know it, says Devangshu Datta. Photograph: George Frey/Getty Images Columbus famously found a......

Remembering Amar Bose: The label 'Great Man' fits him to a T

Sree Sreenivasan recalls his encounters with the pioneer of sound who passed away on Friday and gives a sense of how many lives he touched -- in big and small ways. There are two......