A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
His 9-gold athletic haul at the Olympics remains unrivalled with Usain Bolt coming close with 8. Raj Kishore Mishra, former joint secretary at the sports ministry, salutes Carl Lewis, 'Sportsman of the 20th Century' on his 60th birthday.
India is looking at near close to double-digit growth this year and the country will be one of the fastest-growing economies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. The minister also emphasised that she expects the economic growth next year to be in the range of 7.5-8.5 per cent, which will be sustained for the next decade.
The Trump-Bahubali video, which ends with "USA and India United", went viral after Trump retweeted it.
Roadshows in India by state and private universities increase over fear of losing foreign students.
During the lunch or tea breaks, Maharajji, Manikda, Amjad Khan and I often sat together as Maharajji sang old compositions or recited some bols. Amjad Khan had a great music sense and sang very well.
The winners will split an eight million Swedish kronor (USD 924,000) award funded by the Swedish central bank.
Nobel laureate Peter Doherty says his 'big worry' is there could be refusals for other vaccines if doubts over its safety turn out to be true.
Should we be exposing our women volunteers to the barbarity of actual combat?
Thirty three-year-old CEO of website MouthShut.com, Faisal Farooqui shares his success story.
'From India to Indiana, there has always been a sense of hope, optimism, and goodness.'
You will be part of fastest growing major global economy, India's ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringala told young American students.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right course and college.
Even as protests in America continue over President Donald Trump's travel ban, thousands gathered across the UK to protest against the same. Here are scenes of the protests that spread from New York to London.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Donald Trump, known for his unpredictable leadership style, divisive rhetoric targeting both allies and opponents, and the only US president to be impeached twice, left the White House on Wednesday with a tainted legacy never seen before in American political history.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions
In the test, a space rocket boosted a hypersonic glide vehicle, one capable of carrying a nuclear device, which circled the globe before impacting.
The issue of the United States National Security Agency monitoring internet data of India has reached the Supreme Court with a PIL filed seeking its direction to the Centre to initiate action against internet companies for sharing information with foreign authority in "breach" of contract and violation of right to privacy.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on how to pick the right international education.
Here we bring you all the sporting action from last week in this stunning photo feature.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice on how to pick the right international career.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice.
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration announces a four-day course from August 11-14, 2008 to be held in Hyderabad.
French and American scientists win Nobel Physics Prize
"As of now, we haven't heard of any bad news about the Indian students," the Indian student assocaition president said.
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Panagariya also stressed that India must continue the liberalisation of its top tariff rates and the country should not revert back to import substitution.
On July 17, US Consular Chief Nicholas Manring will take questions on how to apply for a US student visa between 2 and 3 pm IST.
Samridh Seth suggests nine must-read books that can help turn your life around.
Three experts on cyber security, digital forensics, networks and hardware were roped in by the Supreme Court on Wednesday to "enquire, investigate and determine" whether Pegasus spyware was used for snooping on citizens and their probe would be monitored by former apex court judge R V Raveendran.
'If you approached it with that level of aggression in 100 days, you would have vaccinated more than half of your country.' 'On a mass scale you will be able to eliminate that wave.'
'Try to take the experience as a way to better understand yourself and your future goals,' advises Marshall Scholar Hari Prabhakar.
Overseas consultant NNS Chandra shares crucial advice for students aspiring to study abroad.
Professor Roger G Bilham, who was put on a plane out of India last year for his non-establishment views on India's seismicity, tells Arthur J Pais that the new visa regulation barring scientific and journalistic work on tourist visa will affect academics
'SII has started stockpiling the vaccine and now has roughly 40 million doses ready. It is using some of the capacities it had for under development products for the COVID-19 vaccine and by January we will have a capacity to make 100 million doses per month and a stockpile of 200 million doses.'
'The worst case scenario is a rebound of the virus.' 'Life is not going to be what it was.' 'Life as we know it has changed forever.' 'The new normal therefore is test, trace and treat.'
Thin is no longer considered to be attractive.
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