The researchers considered projections under three scenarios: 1. Using the current country-specific testing rates and response functions moving forward, 2. If enhanced testing -- of 0.1 per cent a day -- is adopted on July 1, and 3. If sensitivity of contact rate to perceived risk is set to 8, leaving testing at current levels.
In a letter to the Business School community on Wednesday, Nohria said he will step down from the position of dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) on June 30, 2020, after a decade in the role.
Stating that India's economic stimulus was not adequate, Banerjee said, the measures did not increase consumption spending of lower income people as the government was not willing to put money in the hands of the low income population.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named two minor planets after two girls from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
The Graduate Record Examination is not very difficult. Really!
Simanta Roy meets Kirin Sinha, who is turning how to teach girls to SHINE in math on its head, with dance
Meet Sayamindu Dasgupta!
NRI achieves feel that with globalisation, more and more bright young Indians will opt to stay back in India to further their academic dreams.
United States President Barack Obama has felicitated Indian-American scientist Thomas Kailath with the top presidential medal for transformative contributions to the fields of science and technology.
India's Silicon Valley, Bangalore has been ranked among the world's eight largest technology innovation clusters by MIT Technology Review.
Saumil Bandyopadhyay was named a recipient of the second annual American Ingenuity Awards by Smithsonian magazine, the flagship publication of Smithsonian Media, for a unique, sensitive infrared radiation detector.
Pradhan met Energy Secretary Rick Perry during an unscheduled trip to the US Capitol and discussed energy cooperation between India and the US, Indian investment in Liquefied natural gas and shale sectors, and the possibility of the US exporting LNG to India from early next year.
Though Nobel Prize nominations have been a secret for 50 years, speculation abounds over the contenders for this year's prize in economics.
Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, weeks before Beijing disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, a United States media report said, citing a previously undisclosed American intelligence document that could add weight to growing calls for a full scale probe of whether the coronavirus may have escaped from China's top bio lab.
Any investment proposal in India has to be cleared by the Cabinet which leads to a vicious cycle of approvals and rejections, says
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
ISB students were invited to ring closing bell at Nasdaq.
Two Americans, Diana Jue and Jackie Stenson, are living their dreams in India's rural heartlands...
Three Indian universities feature in the top 200.
'Since the NDA took office in 2014, and aggressively since 2019, the Union government seems hell bent on centralising all power and resources, only to fail spectacularly.'
Steel-making results in vast amounts of carbon, and belching flame and smoke. But a new process developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers could change all that.
The two Chechen brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombings are "twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadis" who failed to instill fear in the American people, United States Vice President Joe Biden has said.
United States President Barack Obama has nominated new heads for the energy department and the Environmental Protection Agency, as he reshuffles his second term cabinet.
Civil War II sees Tony Stark hang up his boots, to be replaced by Riri Williams.
The car which has a 30 kmph cruising speed, can travel a distance of 150 kms on a fully charged battery.
Srikanth Bolla, CEO of Bollant Industries, has set his sights on changing lives
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?
Over the last four days, the Indian arm of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Pune-based Serum Institute of India and Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech have applied to the Drugs Controller General of India seeking emergency use authorisation for their COVID-19 vaccines.
It will offer steep educational discount on Series 5 Chromebooks from Samsung Electronics Co.
The Israeli American professor talks about why managers need to think differently and be humble enough to doubt their own intuition.
In what could be termed as a marked departure from its earlier stance, the Board of Control for Cricket in India is seriously contemplating using Decision Review System (DRS) during India's upcoming home series against England.
Once P V Arun from Manimala in Kerala was headline material for being recruited by the NASA. Today, he is in the news for spreading that lie
The Rs 600-crore (Rs 6-billion) fund wants to become a global-style limited-partnership investor. It was a venture capital fund formed after much thought and attention to detail, like almost all the moves.
Abu Qatada, the radical cleric and terror suspect facing deportation to Jordan, has been denied bail by a London court due to the security challenges he might pose during the forthcoming Olympics.
This 14-year-old schoolboy's invention can save lives.
The centrality of idle office chitchat has only recently come to be acknowledged by executives as they jettison their access cards and work from home in larger numbers, notes Kanika Datta.
Orissa MP Jay Panda defends his state's anti-Maoist record.
By thinking about growth versus poverty we have missed the main point, says MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee.
What happens if China depreciates its currency. In that case, Chinese products will be cheaper and people will continue to buy their products: Abhijit Banerjee.
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