A 20-year-old Indian doctoral student has been shot dead near the University of Toronto Scarborough campus, with authorities probing the case as a homicide, officials said.
University called Nilekani 'more than a business leader'.
Amidst growing panic over Trump's ban on Harvard's international student enrolment, overseas education consultants have this advice for Indian students.
rediffGURU Sushil Sukhwani offers guidance about the best courses and colleges for an international education.
Indo-Canadian Anita Anand and Delhi-born Kamal Khera are part of new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet. Anand is the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry while Khera is Minister of Health. Carney's cabinet with 13 men and 11 women is smaller than Trudeau's 37-member team.
Indians hoping to study in Canada should think twice because many students have ended up in substandard colleges with no job prospects despite spending lakhs of rupees, resulting in depression and suicide, India's top envoy there says.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.
The study, published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that the risk to vaccinated people was lower when unvaccinated mixed with unvaccinated.
More than 500 scientists, academicians and students have written to the Bengaluru-based IISc expressing dismay over the cancellation of a discussion on anti-terror law UAPA that was to be led by student activists Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita.
The Indian government asked for the estimates published '10 years later'.
The tech creators, or the ones who made billions, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Steve Gupta, president and chief executive officer, Easton's Group of Hotels, has been appointed to the University of Toronto Governing Council for a three-year term. He was on the board of UTGC's business council before Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty appointed him to the Governing Council, which makes all the decisions for the University of Toronto.
About 3.2 million people could have died from Covid in India by September last year, six-seven times higher than reported officially, according to a study based on one independent and two government data sources.
GA reader Parshati Patel shares her experience of living with roommates.
Astronomers have discovered a new 'super-Jupiter' planet, 13 times bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in our own solar system. The planet orbits a star called Kappa Andromedae that is 2.5 times the mass of the Sun and is located 170 light-years away from the earth.
A new study has revealed that Oscar winners in the Best Actress category are at a higher risk of divorce than nominees who do not win.
Victims of prejudice, discrimination and/or racism can face long-lasting negative impacts like aggressive behavior, over-eating, inability to focus, etc, says a new research, co-authored by psychology student Sonia Kang, who recently finished her PhD, and Michael Inzlicht, associate professor, psychology, University of Toronto.
According to new research, people who have flexible work hours are reporting more blurring of the boundaries between work and the other parts of their lives, especially family-related roles.
The 50-page Shadows in the Cloud: An Investigation into Cyber Espionage 2.0 report, on released April 6, claimed 780 sensitive documents had been stolen from India. It said the Chinese hackers had also stolen sensitive documents from 16 other countries and all E-mails from Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's office in Dharamsala.
A Chinese spying operation has obtained sensitive data from hundreds of government computers in more than 100 countries, according to a new report.
"The rest of the world should pass a motion of thanks to India for keeping its emission at a level which actually is below the level required to achieve climate sustainability," says Montek Singh Ahluwalia, a key member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's economic team.
Is your boss grumpy? Then there is only one person to blame. You.
Sociologist Sherene Razack, professor at the University of Toronto, was grilled about a report she prepared for the victims' families alleging that systemic racism led to Canadian officials minimising the warnings to Air India and being slow to respond after the devastating bombing.
Immoral behaviour really does leave a 'bad taste in the mouth', claims a new study, which found that disgust over an unfair social situation is hard-wired into the human body as strongly as the reaction to a foul taste.The University of Toronto study shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease.The study has been published in Science.
A student experience from the University of Toronto. Parshati Patel describes living on campus in a foreign university.
Hundreds of pillow fighters battle it out around the world to celebrate World Pillow Fight Day.
Tax credits to lower income groups, IT education for all and creation of an awareness campaign over this issue is imperative, says Don Tapscott, Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
The pleasure and satisfaction people get from sex is largely influenced by the attitudes they hold about how it should play out with their partner(s).
"The ruling party's student wing -- ABVP -- has been emboldened to intervene violently in any attempt by students to have open discussions about matters that the Sangh Parivar deems to be inappropriate. This is thuggish censorship. We stand against it," the statement reads.
Pegasus, which is capable of attacking both Android and iOS, has been around for three years and is considered one of the most sophisticated spyware in the market.
There is no significant link between having sex more than once a week and greater happiness, says a new study.
The more time teenagers spent on phones and TV, the lower their test scores in math and English tend to be.
'There is little doubt that China today stands in the dock, charged with misdemeanour with regard to the health and well-being of its own citizens and of the people of the world,' notes Amulya Ganguli.
A Chinese company named Shanghai AdUps has been sending massive data about phones and users to servers in China.
It can help boost employee performance.
The chemical -- perfluorotributylamine -- is the most radiatively efficient chemical found to date, breaking all other chemical records for its potential to impact climate, said researchers from University of Toronto's Department of Chemistry.
RJio's LYF, Videocon and other smartphone makers to also get notices
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