Hawking is backing a 75-million movement to establish postgraduate centres for advanced maths and physics in Africa. The project has the support of leading entrepreneurs and scientists, according to a report in The Sunday Times.
A popular Chinese green like bok choy does very well in soup too.
World Bank President Ajay Banga took a metro train ride in New Delhi on Wednesday, July 19, 2023.
'It is important to understand that the disability is not in the person.' 'The problem lies in societal attitude and the discriminatory treatment given to disabled people in our country.'
Amidst a raging controversy over a ban on a student e-zine by St Stephen's college, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday attended a graduation ceremony at the institute, even as a section of students had urged him to turn down the invite "in support for freedom of speech".
Amid a raging controversy over the alleged molestation at Stephen's College, the human resource development ministry on Saturday asked the University Grants Commission to take "appropriate measure" to ensure the institute's internal complaints committee completes the inquiry "expeditiously" and "impartially".
Bonafide six-hitter Shivam Dube on Monday said his ability to play a wide range of strokes against spinners is "god's gift" but overcoming issues against express pace and bounce will require plenty of hard work.
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Brazilian Casemiro struck late to send Manchester United into the FA Cup quarter-finals with a 1-0 victory over Nottingham Forest as teenagers Jayden Danns and Lewis Koumas inspired Liverpool to a 3-0 win over Southampton on Wednesday.
Celebrated Cambridge-based scientist Stephen Hawking has said a belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people who are afraid of death.
World number three Elena Rybakina overcame Cristina Bucsa in two hard-fought sets to make the quarter-finals of the Adelaide International on Wednesday, while Jessica Pegula and Jelena Ostapenko had to work even harder to make the last eight.
'I think my first obsessive, possessive and only half-requited -- as we would joke -- 'love' was Ivan. I saw him first slouching down the corridor of St Stephen's College nearly 50 years ago and was instantly smitten (as was everyone else around him).'
While the clouds of controversies surrounding St Stephen's college continue to darken, principal Valson Thampu says no other institution in the world has been subjected to such "harassment" but it is strong enough to withstand 1000 other controversies.
With next week's Australian Open in mind, a weary Venus Williams has opted to skip the Hobart International while her American compatriot Sloane Stephens has pulled out of the Sydney International with a minor wrist injury.
The scientist said he had offered to give his DNA to a project to scan the human genetic code for clues to the cause, in an initiative backed by the MND Association.
The court also directed the college not to give an award, the list of which included Devansh Mehta but dropped later due to the controversy, to anyone till the next date of hearing.
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Former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 7-6 in the first round of the Dubai tennis championships on Monday while US teenager Sloane Stephens was eliminated in three sets to cap a miserable debut trip to the Gulf.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, on Friday, October 7.
American teenager Sloane Stephens caused the biggest upset at this year's Australian Open when the 29th seed rallied to overcome an injury-hampered Serena Williams in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Nine more bodies were found on Monday during clearing of debris almost a week after a fire devastated the two top floors of Stephen Court building on Park Street, taking the toll to 43.
When New Zealander Daryl Mitchell was bought for a whopping Rs 14 crore by Chennai Super Kings during the IPL auction, he was wrapping presents for his daughter's birthday at his home and his heartbeat increased when his name popped up on the screen.
More than 2,800 jobs will be axed as Tata Steel plans to close its blast furnaces at the Port Talbot plant in South Wales in the UK. Of the total job cuts, 2,500 will be in the next 18 months, said Indian conglomerate Tata. A further 300 jobs are to go in three years.
'When I did Bhoot we got a lot of appreciation. After that I didn't get any script that was good in this genre.'
Stephen P Cohen, noted South Asia expert has described Pakistan as "America's most dangerous ally," and has said that while Islamabad "professes to be a democracy," it's most important allies are the most authoritarian regimes in the world, namely "the People's Republic of China, North Korea and Saudi Arabia."
These cricketing legends gathered as part of MCC's World Cricket Committee, a body that meets twice a year to address issues in the game.
US-based chipmaker Micron Technology is expecting demand for semiconductors to rise significantly in the next few years, globally and in India, as memory consumption is going up, largely driven by the widespread adoption of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). "Memory consumption is expected to double by the end of the decade and the biggest driver in this is AI. "While it's natural to talk about compute and GPUs (graphics processing units) in the context of AI, it is not to be forgotten that the true enabler for AI is memory ... in all the AI engines that we talk about, there is a lot of need to access memory quickly," Anand Ramamoorthy, managing director, Micron Technology India, told Business Standard.
A section of Delhi University students and teachers along with student bodies including All India Students' Association and Students Federation of India, staged a protest outside the college campus.
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Three-times Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka returned to the big stage in style on Monday, ousting sixth seed Grigor Dimitrov 1-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(5), 6-4 on Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Donald Trump 'is a demagogue', says one of the world's top scientists Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Fleming will be the coach of Dallas-based Major League Cricket (MLC) club Texas Super Kings (TSK), which announced its partnership with IPL side Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most likely have been hanging out with Dua Lipa.
General Singh was assigned to receive leaders representing the planet's two superpowers -- the president of the United States and the premier of the People's Republic of China.
'Seek medical help if after five days of the first symptom the fever has not subsided.'
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Sarthak Aggarwal who scored 99.6 per cent and topped the CBSE Board Examination this year is in the waiting list of Delhi's St Stephen's College.
Images from Day 8 of the 2023 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Sunday.
In a scathing critique of 'the incoherence of the US government' and the 'dysfunctional organisation', Stephen P Cohen, considered the doyen of South Asia experts in Washington, said the continuing missteps were a no-brainer.
Jelena Ostapenko became only the sixth female Grand Slam champion to lose in the opening round of their title defence on Sunday when she lost to Kateryna Kozlova at the French Open.
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