Dr Manmohan Singh is probably the most highly qualified Indian to serve as PM.
'The big power struggle in faraway Europe erupted at a most critical juncture when India has been increasingly sceptical about American policies and statesmanship,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Apple has teamed up with the Malala Fund to support girls' education.
While Bibek Debroy echoed his view in Twitter, Pronob Sen questioned Kumar's conclusion
'The question is, how soon we can expect to re-attain the pre-lockdown levels of output and income.'
The scholars are awarded for their outstanding scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others and to the common good.
The data, released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), shows that 65 out of 75 countries studied significantly reduced their multidimensional poverty levels between 2000 and 2019.
In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is deeply honoured to be a 'long-trusted' partner in meeting the healthcare needs of the global community and that supplies of the vaccines to several countries will commence on Wednesday, and more will follow in the days ahead.
'If deaths had been properly reported, it would have helped contain the pandemic.'
'India is nowhere near the peak of the infection given its large population of 1.3 billion'
The Indian American and Princeton graduate turned down Rhodes and Marshall scholarships will now be studying Economic Policy Evaluation and Planning at the National University of Ireland, Galway
Abhishek Mande Bhot recalls his stint at Mumbai Mirror, the iconic Mumbai daily newpaper, which its owners, the Times of India group, decided on Saturday to convert to a weekly newspaper.
'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.'
Around 75 professors and other academics of Indian origin working at some of Britain's prestigious institutions such as Cambridge and Oxford university and London School of Economics on Tuesday issued an open letter, sharply attacking Narendra Modi and saying, "The idea of Modi in power fills us with dread".
'Great social change brings great linguistic change, and that has never been truer than in this current global crisis.'
China has smothered most outbreaks within its borders, keeping new case numbers low.
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.
Free speech is the soul of a great university. By compromising on it, the founders have bartered away its soul, said Rajan.
'People may think that because my father was in the film world and politics, things are easy for me.' 'It is not easy at all.'
In the changed circumstances and attitudes in Britain, we must let bygones be bygones, argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The UK University League Tables and Rankings 2016 ranks the best institutes for graduate prospects.
'China's 'one child family' programme is not a model for India; it has unfortunate consequences for China,' says \n\npopulation expert Robert Cassen.
Some important simple truths about the issue may be more helpful than high sounding debates, asserts Mohammad Sajjad.
Millions of people across the country stayed indoors on March 22, 2020 in an unprecedented and overwhelming response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal for the nationwide curfew. People used to come out briefly at 5 pm to show their gratitude to healthcare and other essential service providers with sounds of bells, conches and claps.
The worst economic downturn in decades has forced the Church of England to turn away clergies for the first time in history after billion of pounds of its investments were wiped out in the financial crisis.
Rajan said that while there were talks about Jan Dhan, it was difficult to target transfers to people through this tool. Jan Dhan, he said, does not really work as advertised.
TIME also named freedom fighter Amrit Kaur as 'Women of the Year' for 1947
'Young Chinese have ended up being a socially-conservative group; that believes India is the reason why China should not be a democratic country.'
Arvind Subramanian was appointed CEA in October 2014 and got a year's extension in September 2017
The dilemma is that if farming is to be efficient, farmers will be worse off -- and if farmers are to be better off farming will be worse off, reveals T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
'With the largest number of malnourished people on the planet, India is poised to be a nation that significantly under-performs as an economy.'
The ICICI board is looking to the retired petroleum secretary to provide 'maturity and sagacity'.
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2013 "Nobel-class" Citation Laureates on Wednesday, which names 28 researchers representing 22 distinct academic and research organisations, and six different countries.
Describing himself "basically" as a teacher, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said he "strayed" into politics by "sheer accident".
India's willingness to play a big role in the manufacturing and to allow some of those vaccines to go to other developing countries will be an absolutely critical part of containing the pandemic, said Gates.
The so-called 'fourth industrial revolution' will bring ever faster cycles of innovation, posing huge challenges to companies, workers, governments and societies alike
'Biden's promise of returning to 'normalcy' after Trump appears to mean that the same old politicians, who are responsible for the 'endless wars' in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, are being brought out of the woodwork after four years,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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