rediffGURU Sushil Sukhwani offers expert advice about pursuing higher education abroad.
Usain Bolt, already the world's fastest man, could lop another 0.18 seconds off his 100 metre sprint world record even without running any faster. It's just a question of getting a few conditions right - and doing the maths.
The film truly belong to Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons courtesy their powerful performances, says Namrata Thakker
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy passed away this morning, a senior EAC-PM official said. He was admitted to AIIMS. Debroy (69) was educated in Ramakrishna Mission School, Narendrapur; Presidency College, Kolkata; Delhi School of Economics; and Trinity College, Cambridge.
rediffGURU Dr Pananjay Tiwari lists the options and cost of pursuing an MBBS education outside of India.
The Times Higher Education World University rankings lists the top 800 universities in the world.
The Guardian ranks the best universities in the UK.
Furious competition between social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace is compromising the protection of users' data, a Cambridge University study has concluded.
Scientists claim to have solved the mystery of flammable laptop and cell phone batteries, by finding that "dendrites" are responsible for short circuits that cause the lithium batteries to overheat and catch fire.
M Phil graduate Nate Sharpe is planning to take his 'People Powered Poo Pump' to the slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam.
Educator Anand Kumar could not attend Cambridge University due to financial constraints. Today, he coaches deserving students for IIT-JEE.
Professor Deepa Ollapally said, "The way in which this was carried out, it does suggest that they needed some fairly sophisticated, coordinated planning. And, if the reports are true about their rounding up Americans and British, then it sounds like there is an Al Qaeda hand possibly, which again would be the most obvious difference between every other terrorist attack that has gone on before (in India)."
The Congress president has resigned from more than 10 posts she has been holding.
Researchers at Cambridge University have found that family life is being disrupted as parents and kids are overwhelmed by the huge volumes of emails and social messaging updates they are handling each day.
'Mr. Prime Minister, you attack democracy and that is why discussions are held on it'
A majority of urban Pakistanis believe that the person killed by US special forces during a raid in the garrison city of Abbottabad on Monday was not Osama bin Laden, according to a survey.
The Padma Shri winner and eminent scientist speaks to Senior Editor Ajit Jain
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said attempts were being made to tell the world that the Indian judiciary and the democracy were in crisis.
Prince Charles and Prince William, the second-in-line to the British throne, should be beware, as a new research has found that being a monarch is more dangerous than living in a war zone.
Doctors at Cambridge University's Medical Research Council's cognition and brain siences unit made startling doscovery when they managed to communicate with a man who was in a coma for seven years, The Guardian reported. The doctors devised a technique to enable the 29-year old comatose patient to answer simple questions as a yes or no, through the use of a hi-tech scanner, monitoring his brain activity.
A team of UK researchers has taken the first step on what could be a stairway to heaven.
The Arctic may be ice-free during summer within the next 20 years, claims a new research.Now, ships will be able to sail through the ice-free Arctic in the summers. Ships traveling to Europe from the East would be able to save on journeying over 3000 miles to avoid the icy Arctic. The Arctic Ocean will warm rapidly due to the lack of ice to reflect sunlight, and the warm Arctic water will accelerate the melting of the Greenland ice, which will help the rising sea levels.
The apex court imposed certain conditions on Karti and directed him to furnish an undertaking in three days that he would abide by the conditions and timeline of his visit.
A perceptible shift is seen in the way the young breed of edupreneurs look at the universities they have inherited. Is it for the better?
'Macaulay would be less dismissive of India if his Sanskrit dictionary had not fallen off the boat.' A fascinating interview with historian Piers Brendon, author of the provocative The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997.
Free speech is the soul of a great university. By compromising on it, the founders have bartered away its soul, said Rajan.
"As I was working on agriculture, my family wanted me to take over the management of our plantations. But my aim was to master the art of developing new varieties, that is genetics and breeding. As the proverb has it, we reap what we sow. Consequently, sowing the right things is very important," M S Swaminathan had once said.
'There are lots of low hanging fruits and often no real impediment to plucking them.'
The Indian batting maestro, who is making a comeback in competitive cricket after shoulder surgery, retired after making 147 following up his unbeaten 155 against Cambridge University last Wednesday.
Amidst major funding cuts in British universities, a top US academic has told a London audience that India and China could soon build institutions that match Oxford and Cambridge.
'Instead of shouting at cricket matches, why don't we raise our voices for the release of the Indian Navy veterans in Qatar?'
"If you get employment, you will watch Reels for half an hour and work for 12 hours," the Congress leader said.
According to the researchers at Cambridge University, while men may spend longer at the office, it is the women who work more each week if domestic and paid employment is added together, The Daily Telegraph reported.
India's edge in software technology and low cost of publishing makes perfect business sense for publishers.
The Pakistan coach said the new boy in his team are talented and hungry for success.
Registrations are open for the pre-Nursery to Class VIII sections at the Lotus Valley International School, Noida.
Abhas Mitra of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre was perhaps the first and the only scientist to have questioned Hawking's concept of black holes.
