'I thought we need someone to sit in front of the defence who is cool and can be a third defender, but who can also play on the ball. I am very proud of him.'
Oxford University has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Confederation of Indian Industry to set up India Business Centre.
Shami Chakrabarti, leading NRI human rights lawyer and director of prominent civil liberties group -- Liberty, has been appointed as the chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.
What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister and finance minister, he understood the importance of gradualism, except when the economy or the polity was in a crisis.
The research published in 'Nature Nanotechnolog' on Monday is based on a new approach to vaccine development called "proactive vaccinology", where scientists build a vaccine before the disease-causing pathogen even emerges, which has shown promising results in mice.
The researchers of the Oxford and Duke University tracked changes to statements of historical performance of over 18,000 hedge funds recorded in publicly available hedge fund databases, at different points in time between 2007 and 2011.
The Oxford University social media expert, however, did not elaborate further about his charges.
The Aam Aadmi Party led by its chief minister designate Atishi staked claim to form a new government in Delhi on Tuesday shortly after Arvind Kejriwal resigned from the post, an effort seen as a bold gambit to seize the initiative ahead of assembly elections due in five months.
Aditi Ashok can win a medal at the Paris Olympics provided her form does not betray her in pressure situations, said PGTI president Kapil Dev.
Comparing the Delhi School of Economics with Oxford and Cambridge, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday asked the prestigious institution to benchmark globally to retain and attract students from India and abroad.
The Guardian ranks the best universities in the UK.
A few readers met up with Priyanka Chopra shooting for Salaam-E-Ishq.
Lord Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, will visit India next month as part of a drive to attract brightest students from the country to help university compete with the better-funded US Ivy League colleges.
"I had taken a test conducted by the Oxford University. They said I would be given a scholarship to study at NASA, that they would give me training, arrange for my sustenance and even my stay there," Saurabh said.
In fact, the centenary edition of the esteemed Concise Oxford English Dictionary now contains some 400 new entries, some of which are a testament to the continuing evolution of language especially in the time of the Internet.
The mystical near- and mid-infrared portraits of 19 face-on spiral galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The Agatha Harrison Memorial Fellowship at St Anthony's College, Oxford, is worth £ 24,536.
As Kolkata marches towards modernity, it is hard to imagine its streets without these cabs, notes Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd).
'It is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause TTS.'
The Bodleian library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican libraries are collaborating on a project to bring ancient texts into the digital era, which will make 1.5 million pages available online.
Dr T V Somanathan is the first finance secretary to be appointed Cabinet secretary since 1985. His appointment at this juncture seems to carry much meaning for the forthcoming trajectory of reforms and restructuring of India's steel frame.
The wife of an Oxford University professor found dead in Indian-origin colleague Devinder Sivia's house in Oxfordshire defended him, saying the death was 'not murder' and it must have been a 'tragic accident'.
He was reviled by critics in his party as a neo-liberal in disguise but till the end, he retained his belief in secularism and the humanity of Communism.
One of the world's oldest seats of learning, the ruins of Nalanda University are a true wonder!
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who made his debut in television commentary in the Twenty20 World Cup, has been invited to give lecture at the University of Oxford in England as part of ICC centenary celebrations.
The Delhi battlefield may not be a cakewalk for the Rhodes Scholar.
rediffGURU Dr Pananjay Tiwari lists the options and cost of pursuing an MBBS education outside of India.
The argument with Nehru happened when Bachchan translated the president's speech in English into Hindi, which in accordance with regular practice was to be delivered by the vice president.
The campaign aims to raise 1.25 billion pounds, and begins at a high profile international event in London on Wednesday. The launch event at the British Academy features the university's chancellor Lord Chris Patten, and vice-chancellor John Hood. Oxonians from various fields and countries have been roped in to raise funds that will be used to meet rising costs and steep competition from American universities.
University of Oxford offers 5 Rhodes scholarships to outstanding students.
The global trials were halted after a study participant suffered a 'potentially unexplained illness, reports Sohini Das.
Serum Institute of India chief Adar Poonawalla will pay 138 million (about Rs 1,444 crore) for a Mayfair mansion in London in one of the city's most expensive home sales of the year
The money will fund scholarships and bursaries for students from poorer backgrounds, as well as teaching posts and a series of major building projects. Donors would not be allowed to dictate the university's agenda.
The world is learning about a side effect of the COVID vaccine called Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, he said.
Pharma giant AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide after the company acknowledged for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, according to a report in the British newspaper The Telegraph.
'What my Labour government will seek with India is a relationship based on our shared values of democracy and aspiration. That will seek a free trade agreement (FTA), we share that ambition, but also a new strategic partnership for global security, climate security, economic security'
'What worries me is that we are allowing very talented Indian women and men to slip through our net and swim off to America or Australia,' says Oxford Chancellor Chris Patten.
