United States President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named two Indian Americans -- Reema Shah and Neha Gupta -- to the Office of the White House Counsel.
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A spokesman of the university said the privately-funded Manmohan Singh Scholarship will send three serving scholars from India every year to St John's College, Cambridge, where the prime minister had studied economics and won the Wright's prize for distinguished performance in the mid-1950s.
Long-term exposure to chronically high PM2.5 levels weakens the ability of the lungs to fend off infections, therefore making people more susceptible to COVID-19, the scientists said.
'The sooner we understand and accept this current situation as the new normal, the better,' advises Major Mohammed Ali Shah (retd).
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The South African authorities said the detected cases and percentage of people testing positive are both increasing quickly, particularly in particularly in most populated province of Gauteng, North West and Limpopo regions of the country.
No Indian varsities, including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, figure among world's top 200 universities this year while six Chinese universities were listed, signalling the rapid stride the Communist giant is making in higher education. Harvard University tops the league table followed by Cambridge and Oxford at second and third positions respectively. The top 10 universities are all either in the United States or the United Kingdom, a survey has found.
Partha Dasgupta, an Indian-origin economics professor at Cambridge, and famed talk show queen Oprah Winfrey were among nine people conferred with honorary degrees at the annual convocation of Harvard University.
'There are lots of low hanging fruits and often no real impediment to plucking them.'
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Such measures are effective at slowing disease spread and preventing health systems becoming overwhelmed, they can also lead to job losses and social disruption, noted the study, published in the European Journal of Epidemiology.
Since no effective treatments or vaccine for COVID-19 is available, reducing virus transmission via measures like isolating suspected infected individuals, school closures, and lockdowns are crucial, according to the researchers, including Rajiv Chowdhury from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
As India holds its breath for the Covid vaccination to be begin, Sudhir Bisht provides a quick checklist of what you must know about the vaccines that will be administered to citizens.
Britain's Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a 'silent plane'.
'Studying History, we come close to all of the messiness of human life -- we understand what motivates people, what makes them get along or go to war, what dreams they had for themselves and their futures.'
India-born Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as president elect of Britain's prestigious Royal Society.
Cambridge University Press plans to introduce its dictionary on mobile phones in India and is looking for a service provider, Stephen R Bourne, CEO, CUP, said.
Here's a sequential line of action to help you get the funding you need.
Let's take a look at 14 infrastructure sectors that need immediate attention.
Jesus College Choir -- a choir from the University of Cambridge teamed up with non-government organisation Songbound for an unique initiative that culminated at Blue Frog, a popular lounge in Mumbai.
Researchers could correctly predict race, IQ, sexuality, and political view of users.
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The scholarship is exclusively for Indians currently based in India to do PhD and MPhil in science and technology, economics and social sciences at St John's College.
With inflation remaining at elevated levels, central banks around the world, including the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), will kill excess demand in economy over the next six to eight months, sources in the know said. They also indicated that there could be a rate hike in June, when the inflation forecast for the current financial year would be raised. The RBI, the sources said, might announce more steps such as raising the limit on held-to-maturity (HTM) bonds to support government borrowings but might not come out with any further quantitative easing GSAP (Government Securities Acquisition Programme) measures.
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Dr Manmohan Singh is probably the most highly qualified Indian to serve as PM.
The film which is dedicated to India's mathematical prodigy, Ramanujan, is a well researched, well-written and brilliantly directed.
The winners will split an eight million Swedish kronor (USD 924,000) award funded by the Swedish central bank.
British scientist Robert Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize award for his pioneering work in developing In Vitro Fertilisation, died on Wednesday. He was 87.
The Facebook chief said his top priority has always been his social mission of connecting people, building community and bringing the world closer together.
Many users continue to use rather predictable passwords to protect themselves online.
India-born Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Chile University have received the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
When stocks were tumbling last fall as the new school year began, at Harvard University, it was as if the boom had never ended. But behind the scene it was a different story.
'This virus may have more immune evasion capability and therefore, it may make you more sick.'
An Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai (IIT) alumnus has come up with instructions on how to make a flying carpet, just like the one in Walt Disney's creation 'The Arabian Nights'.
Rajneesh Gupta gives us a list of noteworthy statistics from first-class and Ranji Trophy
Defying the odds of medicine, Stephen Hawking, widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists, celebrated his 70th birthday on Sunday.
Within the three regions of Europe, the study shows remarkable constancy across the 10 features of flourishing.
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