Agnipath may be an exercise to address the genuine needs of the armed forces. But overall, it betrays the tendency to use the military and paramilitary for employment generation and shaping a national character, instead of treating them as the professional services they are, notes Shyam G Menon.
Two US school students accused of hacking into their institution's computer for stealing test papers and changing grades, will appear in a Silicon Valley court on Tuesday. Eighteen-year-olds Omar Khan and Tanvir Singh, students at Tesoro High School in southern California who were charged last month, are jointly facing 73 felony counts for altering public records, computer access and fraud, burglary, identity theft and conspiracy.
The community is planning to welcome Modi at every possible location where he could be available during his three-day stay.
One fine morning in 2006, Dhiraj Kacker received a phone call that changed his life as an employee with a successful start-up in the Silicon Valley. At the other end was his buddy Peeyush Rai coaxing him to come back to India to start their own business. And, Kacker didn't think twice. In 2007, Kacker and Rai, who used to play for the IIT Bombay cricket team, launched Canvera, an online digital photography company that offers solutions in imaging and photography.
Looking at the forthcoming year, while there will be macroeconomic challenges, industry in India is better off because we are still growing. If we manage the next 12-18 months, we should emerge stronger, says S Gopalakrishnan.
The smartphone maker debuts its new operating system, code-named Nova, at January's CES. Palm says its phones for it will bridge the BlackBerry-iPhone gap.
The IB says since the terrorists planned to kill as many people as possible and die in the attacks, the ID cards were cleverly designed to throw the security forces on the wrong track
Get Ahead presents an excerpt from engineer-turned-author Amrita Chowdhury's debut novel, Faking It.
Google's engineers have prototypes. Here is what we saw.
The agreement was signed at American space agency NASA's Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley this week and it would be formally announced on Tuesday. Apart from India, the countries which signed the pact with the US are Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea.
The former Bigg Boss housemate is ready to enter your homes again.
At one time, the West's muktinationals ruled supreme. Now, the shining stars of India's Silicon Valley are shaking up the global IT business. A number of books have been written on the subject of late. Among them, Bangalore Tiger, which exposes the key principles of the IT giant Wipro's transnational business model, deserves special mention.
Shortage of top engineering talent in Silicon Valley is inflating paychecks.
Let's fix the system, end the abuses but make sure we recognise the role of immigrants in creating jobs: Khanna.
The celebrated Stanford professor, Rajeev Motwani, known worldwide for mentoring and advising founders of the companies like Google and PayPal, has died in a freak drowning incident.
Silicon Valley is at the heart of the transformation of the global economy -- which has both winners and losers, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Modi is expected to travel to the US late September.
Google Chief Executive Officer Indian-American Sundar Pichai, 47, will be assuming the role of Alphabet CEO, making him one of the most powerful corporate leaders of the world.
A summary of Saturday's action at the US Open.
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It was yet another feather in her cap for Pallavi Shah, an accomplished math teacher and coach in northern California, who has been honored twice by President George W Bush in the Oval Office when her students took first place and were the top individual scorers in the Mathcounts National Competition.
If you are in Bengaluru, here's your chance to play reporter, by telling to us what you see around you, send us your photographs and videos of the terror attack
Billionaire and Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra along with top Silicon Valley investors Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan are backing space tech start-up Agnikul as part of a new funding round. Chennai-based Agnikul said, on Thursday, that it has raised $11 million in Series A funding round led by Mayfield India. It is the largest funding round for a private Indian space technology company in the country. Existing investors pi Ventures, Speciale Invest and Artha Venture Fund also invested in this round.
For years, the true nerds of Silicon Valley have obsessed about Bill Gates. They damned Microsoft as an evil empire and proclaimed Gates its Darth Vader. His products? Technically inferior and chronically behind schedule. His company? An evil monopoly bent on world domination and the suppression of truly great software.
Tesla began taking orders for its $35,000 Model 3 sedan from Indian customers in April last year.
In these times of credit crisis, Santa Claus is ringing in gifts for employees at Google, with the search engine giant doling out the G1 -- an iPhone version from its own stable -- instead of Christmas cash bonus.
The development of the Dalian Tiandi Software Hub will involve a total investment of 15 billion yuan from Hong Kong-based Shui On Group and Dalian-based Yida Group.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has earned a year's worth of bragging rights -- he is the only person of Indian origin to feature in Vanity Fair's annual power list of 100 most influential people.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Aston Business School have found that investment in Research and Development (R&D) is rapidly shifting from North America and Europe to Asia.
'As a member of Congress, it was important to meet with Prime Minister Modi. Promoting the India-US relationship is a priority. It is important to have a constructive dialogue with the biggest democracy in the world,' US Congressman Mike Honda tells Ritu Jha/Rediff.com
Mirza Tatlic fatally shot Naren Prabhu, a Silicon Valley tech executive, and his wife at their home in San Jose.
Maryland Governor Robert L Ehrlich Jr is upbeat about India-US relations.
Kyrgios did not face a single break point and hit 18 aces, including two to close out the final.
Creative Choice Group plans to create a world-class research centre that will leverage the lower costs in India.
Silicon Valley is gearing up to host a conference of scientists, engineers and executives, Nobel Laureates and industry head honchos from India and US on June 22 to 24 to be organised by the Indian Institute of Science Alumni Association of NA.
The networking giant said the investment, which includes the opening new offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and sponsored research, will generate 650 new jobs by the end of 2010. Cisco also will spend $400 million in the area through its Cisco Systems Capital Corp, a financing subsidiary.
In India, democracy has not allowed the rule of the majority, says Fareed Zakaria
The average life span of intellectuals working in Zhongguancun, dubbed as China's 'Silicon Valley' in Beijing is only 53.34 years, but 10 years ago, it was 58.52.
Crumbling roads, jammed airports, and power blackouts could hobble growth.
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