Acharya emphasised that the time is "really ripe" for land, labour and agricultural reforms in India.
"I'm taking a minute to respond... I do respect Raghuram Rajan as a great scholar who chose to be in the central bank in India at a time when the Indian economy was all buoyant," Sitharaman said during the lecture organised by the Deepak and Neera Raj Centre on Indian Economic Policies of the Columbia University.
As he struggles in hospital, I wonder why anyone, especially someone who was not even born when The Satanic Verses was published, would want to harm a 75-year old man and a literary treasure, wonders Subhash K Jha.
Ajay Banga, one of the topmost Indian-American corporate leaders, and a strong advocate of India-US relationship, would retire from Mastercard at the end of the year, the global credit card company has said.
A unique programme by Columbia Business School charges Rs 1,00,000 to train students for entrepreneurship in seven days.
These breakfast fajitas can be made with chicken too instead of egg. For a vegan or Jain version use 250 gm tofu crumbled instead of egg.
Panagariya also pointed out that COVID-19 pandemic may lead to integration of global labour market.
Even though present times were fraught with challenges, there is still inherent, vast and untapped opportunity in India, concludes the 10th India Business Conference at Columbia Business School.
14 students at IIT Kharagpur have been awarded scholarships.
To reduce the risk of transmitting the SARS-CoV-2 virus to newborns after delivery, the researchers said the hospital staff practised social distancing, wore masks, and placed COVID-positive moms in private rooms.
An alumnus of St Stephen's College, Delhi, his professional career began in the early 1990s. He completed a Master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University during 1996-98. And an MBA from Northeastern University, Boston.
The young actor recently shared her incredible transformation journey.
The signatories to the letter include scholars from universities across the globe including the New York University, the Brown University, the Harvard, the Columbia and prominent IITs.
'It is equally morally moronic not to look at bin Laden's political demands as it is to condemn him as a terrorist,' says Akeel Bilgrami, the Indian-born philosopher.
'..or even technology blindly. Rather, he wanted it to be in the control of ordinary people, not the corporate elite and the governments that serve them.' says Indian-born philosopher Akeel Bilgrami.
Think you know everything about Jyotiraditya Scindia?
Recent growth has wrought enormous environmental destruction and degradation in India, says Praful Bidwai.
Indian American education expert and journalist Sreenath Sreenivasan has been appointed as the first chief digital officer of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, musuem's director and CEO Thomas P Campbell announced Thursday.
Melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled since the start of the 21st century due to rising temperatures, losing over a vertical foot and half of ice each year and potentially threatening water supply for hundreds of millions of people in countries, including India, according to a study published in 2019.
Kalam, the first Asian to receive the honor that has been given annually since 1930 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was feted at the Columbia University, the venue for the award ceremony that was attended by students and faculty members of the university, including two Nobel Laureates, as well as top Indian diplomats and members of the Indian American community.
'If you don't have children, that's also a problem.' 'There's no right way to live because everybody has an opinion about your personal life, and how you should live.' 'You have to listen to them, unless you can pick a fight with everyone.'
Eminent economist Arvind Panagariya has said India is on the cusp of returning to a high growth trajectory and voiced confidence that the country will become the world's third-largest economy by 2027-28. Currently, India is the fifth largest economy "so it's another five years.We are already in (the year) 2023. "So 2027-28, India should be the third-largest economy," Panagariya, Columbia University Professor and former Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, told PTI in an interview in New York.
The announcement comes as a big relief to international students, including those from India.
'What we have to think about is, how to improve the efficiency of public sector banks.' 'You have to make decision-making more prudent, and free from government intervention.'
Trump also raised the possibility of using light to combat the deadly viral infection.
Young adults who take a vow of virginity as adolescents are as likely to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases as those who don't, says a new research.
Arvind Panagariya, first vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog, replacement for the five-decade-old Planning Commission, has decided to return to academics.
Fifteen years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
In an interview with Ajit Jain, Stephen Toope, President, University of British Columbia, reveals why there is a growing need for the Indian government to collaborate with universities abroad in order to meet the academic needs of talented students.
A hundred sled dogs were recently killed in Whistler, British Columbia. The incident came to light when the person who killed them -- an Outdoor Adventures Whistler employee -- filled out a workers' compensation form for post-traumatic stress disorder.
All India Congress Committee General Secretary Digvijay Singh's son Jaivardhan formally joined Congress on Wednesday amid indications that he might contest upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections from Raghogarh constituency, which has been nurtured by his father over a period of time.
Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, Kavita Ramanan, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Dilip Da Cunha, architect, planner and teacher at Harvard University and Columbia University, Mukul Sharma, professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, and Tahera Qutbuddin, professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2020 Guggenheim fellowships.
She will replace US Supreme Court Judge Justice Brett Kavanaugh who was nominated by President Donald Trump for the top post.
Jagdish Bhagwati keeps the debate with the Nobel Laureate raging in this interview with Sheela Bhatt.
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Indian-American economist Arvind Panagariya has said that he is "honoured" to be appointed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the first Vice Chairman of the newly created NITI Aayog, which replaces the 65-year-old Planning Commission.
An advocate of using technology to improve education, training and storytelling without losing core, traditional values, he has worked on distance-learning and other digital efforts for several years.
In just two years, Bank Bazaar.com was chosen as one of the 'Hottest Startups' in India.
Pakitan academic Hasan-Askari Rizvi on the possibility of making the Line of Control between India and Pakistan irrelevant.
