Columbia University Monday announced the launch of the latest Columbia Global Center for South Asia in Mumbai in order 'to deepen its global perspective and expand knowledge' particularly about the country and also about the region.
The report 'Indian FDI falls in global economic crisis: Indian multinationals tread cautiously' by the Columbia Law School and The Earth Institute at the Columbia University said after growing faster than other emerging markets for some time, Indian investments abroad declined in 2008 and will decline further in 2009 in an uneven pattern.
The Chinese yuan has the potential to be an alternative to the US dollar and help create a multi-currency global reserve system, says an Asian Development Bank report.
The fight to end poverty sometimes looks like an industry that depends on the poor's impoverished state for its own survival. Jeffrey Sachs's book End of Poverty is a jolt to shake us out of that rut.
A Sikh professor at Columbia University was allegedly attacked by a group of men, who called him "Osama" and "terrorist", in an assault which police are investigating as a hate crime.
'The Weather Channel argues that India faces the gravest challenge: Climate change-induced health vulnerability.' 'This is an issue often neglected, alerts Claude Arpi: "Prolonged summers, unpredictable rains, floods, droughts, and rising sea levels are the harsh realities of climate change in the country. These factors increase the frequency and severity of illnesses, pushing people into poverty, and forcing migration".'
Some global weather watchers have warned that India will likely see below-normal rainfall during this coming monsoon -- and that should be taken seriously, regardless of whether it turns out to be true or not.
Switzerland has been named the happiest country in the world.
'Here is hoping that the entirely unintended and unforeseen victims of the coronavirus, the printed papers, emerge safe and unscathed from the affliction,' says Shreekant Sambrani.
'One good thing that has come out of all this is that it shown people that online ordering is the way forward.'
Here's the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the United States Congress.
