This year, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana, the 'dadi from Shaheen Bhagh' Bilkis, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Professor Ravindra Gupta are among TIME's 100 most influential people of 2020.
There is so far no evidence that the second wave of COVID-19 in the country is due to variants of the virus, but it is possible, said noted virologist Shahid Jameel.
The Oxford University and Stanford MBA graduate co-founded a 1-billion-pound global investment firm and specialised in investing in small British businesses
Mithileysh Sathiyanarayanan, 29, research scientist from London, UK tells us about his first salary.
Amid reports that three missing British Muslim schoolgirls may have crossed over to Syria to join Islamic State terrorists, parents in Britain are being asked to confiscate the passports of their children if they feel they were at a similar risk.
Scotland Yard's Counter-Terrorism Command investigating the attack arrested the 25-year-old from Newport.
Online learning platforms have become go-to places for those suffocated by the current curbs on movement.
Indian students planning to study abroad this year have to pay higher fee, fund their quarantine stay and also compete for on campus work opportunities.
Katy Sheen, a physicist at the University of Exeter in the UK, explains how Santa Claus travels over 200,000 times faster than Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man.
These are meant for students travelling abroad for further studies.
Signing up for it means a month without alcohol!
He said there is no decline in Modi's 'determination'.
The shortlist for the Architectural Photography Awards 2018 has been revealed. The awards are split into four categories: Exterior, Interior, Sense of Place, and Buildings in Use, with each comprising five finalists. The 20 photographs that make up the shortlist will be exhibited at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam between November 28 - 30, and an overall winner will be announced on the 30. Here are some of the brilliant photos in the shortlist.
Do you know what this UK-based MBA student's novel b-school project is? He plans to live on less than a dollar a day and bring power to an Indian orphanage. Intrigued? Read on
While there is a continuous increasing trend in COVID-19 cases and deaths globally, particularly in America and Europe and the situation in the world is becoming worrisome, in contrast the scene in India is satisfying as the cases and deaths are declining, Dr V K Paul, member (health) at NITI Aayog, told a press conference.
Infosys, like many of its peers, has been ramping local hiring in key markets like the US, the UK and Australia to tackle increasing scrutiny around work visas by various governments.
Experts say Indian students will have to accept that international space for them is shrinking.
The govt said there are 18 states and UTs in the country where the total number of active cases are between 5,000 and 50,000, while there are only four states with more than 50,000 active cases.
Pushing your meal timings earlier by 90 minutes helps you from gaining weight.
China has smothered most outbreaks within its borders, keeping new case numbers low.
The songs has broken the Internet, but what do you think of it? Love it, hate it or just don't care? Take the poll and let us know.
Gandhi has been attacking the BJP government for allegedly inking the deal at a much higher price than the one the previous United Progressive Alliance regime had negotiated to benefit 'one businessman'.
There is clearly something deeply rotten in the systems of institutional governance in the bastions of higher education in India, says TCA Anant.
In the changed circumstances and attitudes in Britain, we must let bygones be bygones, argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Imagine a world in which a human only thinks, and a robot cooks the whole meal.
Majan College, the largest private University College in Muscat, Oman, and an associate college of the University of Bedfordshire UK, has announced admissions to its programmes. The Degrees are issued by the University of Bedfordshire and are open
'People are already sending congratulatory messages. But I have said, "Please don't until the trials are over".'
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.
The Institute of Advanced Management invites applications for admission to its three-year integrated degree course in Hotel Management at Goa and Kolkata.
We invited you, our dear readers to share your 2 States stories. Samhita Chaudhuri shares her and her husband Sagar Malsane's tale.
'Institutional ownership, by December 2018, had increased 37.5% from approximately 22% in early 2009,' points out Amit Tandon.
After healthcare and frontline workers, priority will be given to those above 50 years of age and the under-50 population groups with co-morbidities numbering around 27 crore, it added.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has again displayed a mercurial mind. Months after keeping the University of Cambridge, UK, waiting for an answer to its invitation to deliver a lecture and then saying she'd come, she's decided not to go.
A high sugar diet could increase your risk of heart disease.
We invited readers to share stories of how they met their spouses and interesting anecdotes about their wedding day. Gauri Patil shares her love story.
'We are a country of amazing ability and the way we have responded to the pandemic is evidence.'
'Wearing masks, washing our hands, all those things are barriers to transmissibility, or contagion, but as the virus becomes more contagious it statistically is better at getting around those barriers'
'I think we're standing up to the Chinese. Our allies following us, whether it's Huawei and the UN Germany now coming up'
Even with an ongoing pandemic, theatres in many states functioning at 50 per cent occupancy, a quieter social life and fewer movies, Bollywood still managed to pack in plenty of drama and trauma, fun and festivity, love and war into the year.
For now Walmart has said it remains optimistic about India. But that could change without prior notice, says Nivedita Mookerji.
