Interview with Professor, Stanford University.
Is there no 'normal' background? Sure there is.
...but are we chasing yesterday's dreams, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
There can be no one answer to the question at the centre of an anxious debate across a world coping with COVID-19 and wondering what will happen if another one comes, but the global scientific community has been working on multiple tracks to ensure that humankind is better prepared.
Take a look at the annual US News and World Report's 2016 business school rankings.
In the third part of the series on Indian Americans who won Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships, Arthur J Pais tells the story of Jasmeet Kaur Ahuja, a Sikh American with roots in Punjab.
In politics, if your objective is only winning elections, just Chanakya neeti might do. For governance you need both, Chanakya neeti and Ram Rajya. You can neither beat up the farmers into submission, nor dismiss them as 'Khalistanis', asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Fatigue and a busy schedule was not going to get in the way of Serena Williams returning to the place she says launched her comeback and gave her the confidence to believe she could win another Grand Slam.
Steve Ballmer would be dead in the water without Windows and Office, which he inherited.
The Indian qualifier, who savoured his best ever performance on the ATP World Tour, went down fighting 4-6, 6-4, 3-6 against the world number 45 from South Africa in the quarter-finals played on Friday.
The new batch of Rhodes scholars includes South Asians. The prestigious international scholarship is awarded to high academic achievers who are also active in sports and community work.
According to the recently released global MBA rankings of Financial Times, the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad at number 11 and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad at number 20 are the only two schools that find a place in the top 100.
An IIT Chennai and Stanford University alumnus, Agarwal will assume his new role on July 1.
The 5G road map pursued by India should not only move the country forward but also result in progress of weaker sections of society.
'The Indian side has realised that not talking to Pakistan has not served any useful purpose.'
Venus Williams will take on compatriot Sloane Stephens in one semi-final before her fellow Americans Madison Keys battles it out with CoCo Vandeweghe in the other in all-American semi-final in the women's singles at the US Open.
Miss World Washington Shree Saini tells us how she overcame multiple traumas and carved her niche to compete for Miss World this year.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, the grandson of the late Vijaya Raje Scindia, quit the Congress on Tuesday along with 22 MLAs, putting the 14-month-old Kamal Nath-led government in deep crisis. "His grandmother Vijaya Raje, once a close confidant of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the great grandfather of Rahul Gandhi, had started her political innings in 1957 from the Congress. However, she left the party in 1967.
Ishan Nath, the Rhodes Scholar elect from Atlanta, exemplifies how one can turn frustration into a passion.
'There is little appetite in the Democratic foreign policy establishment to pick a fight with India.'
The digital revolution in education is coming at a most opportune time for India. Leadership in this is something India could seize, if only it had the vision, feels Rajeev Srinivasan.
Serena Williams will rest for a week after withdrawing from the Swedish Open due to an elbow problem but is confident the injury will not derail her preparations for the US Open.
Ankit Fadia talks to Prasanna Zore about his roles and responsibilities as a brand ambassador of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' programme
Indians are eager consumers of digital advertising and are five times more willing to share personal data with companies when they are delighted by their digital experience.
A gamechanger for offices and factories, Shycocan, claims to be able to clear an area of 1000 square feet from coronavirus.
In 2020, Indian users went up by 400 per cent, making it the fastest growing market in the world for Duolingo, with China coming in second.
The former world number one, who returned to competition in June after 11 months out with injuries and health problems, will carry a 10-match winning streak into the final against Samantha Stosur and appears in ominous form ahead of the US Open starting Aug. 29.
Dr Tara Thiagarajan is the chairperson and managing director of the Rs 200-crore (Rs 2 billion) Madura Micro Finance Ltd. She is also the director of Microcredit Foundation of India.
Three molecular chemists -- Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel -- were on Wednesday awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for devising computer simulations that are used to understand and predict chemical processes.
'It will take many years to clean the Ganga. It will not happen in five years like the prime minister wants. If you want it to be sustainable, temporary measures won't work.' Twinkle Tom, an environmental engineer by training (from Stanford no less!), now designs wedding gowns because India, sadly, does not want her expertise and skill.
On March 20, Tibetans voted to elect a new prime minister of the government-in-exile headquartered at Dharamshala. This contest assumed significance as the Dalai Lama stuck to his decision of quitting as the political head of the community. Awaiting Tibet's verdict, Harvard law scholar Dr Lobsang Sangay, the frontrunner in contest speaks about the Dalai Lama, the threat from China and how India's World Cup victory has given hope to the Tibetan cause.
A great, new book suggests that history favours China's future over India's.
As the curtain comes down on an extraordinary career, we bring you advice from Steve Jobs on how to live your life, drawing from his own experiences.
Stronger the pitch of various states, the better for India as a country. The two states plan to showcase their improved 'ease of doing business rankings'.
A team of researchers has recently discovered a love hormone, oxytocin, which triggers men to feel friendly and social.
Serena Williams won her second straight tournament and proved her mettle ahead of the U.S. Open with a convincing 6-4, 6-2 win over Australia's Samantha Stosur in the Toronto Cup final on Sunday.
Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
Serena Williams has only played a handful of matches since her comeback from foot surgery and a life-threatening illness, but that won't deter her from attempting to reclaim the top spot as soon as possible.
The number of Harvard alumni who are billionaires swelled to 62, up from 54 in 2009, 'more than any other American university by a long shot,' Forbes said.
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