Four Indian-American professors are among 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists selected for the Simons Investigators awards for their cutting edge research.
A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged with hate crime for a brutal assault on a Sikh professor last year during which the attackers called him "Osama" and a "terrorist" in the United States.
Syed Shahabuddin's son found dead in US
Tambar, who holds a master's in public administration from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, taught a course there on immigrant youth for a semester. He is assistant deputy commissioner for parent and community engagement at the New York City Human Resources Administration.
Hollywood's Sarah Thompson is reportedly heading to Bollywood to act as the actor's American girlfriend in the blockbuster drama Raajneeti.
Will India really beat China in future or if not beat, can it at least catch up with it? We asked common people to speak on the issue and came across some interesting viewpoints.
Meet the winner of the Miss India-Canada 2010 pageant, the beauty queen who wants to become a teacher.
'...it didn't make sense to me.' 'If the character was not adding (to the story), I wasn't interested.' 'The reason why I chose to act is because of the way it makes me feel when I'm acting, not for the fame and money.'
Dr Raj Pandian tells Arthur J Pais about his invention, which was among The New York Times Magazine's Outstanding Ideas of 2003
After the latest projections in Wisconsin, Biden has 253 electoral college votes as against Trump's 213, making it much difficult for the President to win the polls. The winner of the 2020 presidential election should have at least 270 Electoral College votes out of the 538-member electoral college.
Tennis ace Martina Navratilova has married her long-term partner Julia Lemigova in New York.
New York City has settled a case by Ravi Shankar, associate professor of English and poet-in-residence, Central Connecticut State University, for wrongful arrest and detention last year.
Given your heart to someone? Check it out, you might have surrendered your brain too, scientists say.
Three Indian-American researchers have shown that the fingerprint-based security systems used in smartphones and other gadgets are way more vulnerable to hacking than we imagined.
Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon have won for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.
Mira's films are alive, rocking and so true to the reality I know. They are gifts that I keep revisiting, and I cannot wait for what more she will share with us, notes Aseem Chhabra.
'Strengthen hospital capacity, look after patients who need care, primarily ICU care...' 'Train doctors, get PPE, get ventilators, have treatment protocols in place.'
'In America, colour does not have the same significance,'\n\npainter Natvar Bhavsar tells Jeet Thayil.
For many, the age of 50 may be the beginning of the end, but a group of scientists claim the good life begins only when people reach their fifties.
''Even without major reforms, with a business as usual scenario, and with current inflation trends, we should be clocking around 11 to 12 per cent nominal growth.' 'That is not happening and is a source of worry,' Rathin Roy tells Arup Roychoudhury.
10 things you should know about the new (and 1st Indian-origin) editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.
An ardent backer of Brexit, Boris Johnson has a reputation for brashness, bombast, bending the truth, and really bad hair, which has earned him more than a few comparisons to United States President Donald Trump (who also happens to be a fan of his). Here are some interesting facts about BoJo, as he is called by the British media.
Take a look at the sea of women who came out...
Pakistan's polity does not have the capacity to sustain a normal relationship with India, former foreign secretary and national security advisor Shivshankar Menon has said as he characterized relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors as "managed hostility".
In another development, leading Japanese drug maker Takeda Pharmaceutical sued Ahmedabad-based Torrent Pharma in the US for infringing seven patents covering its flagship diabetes drug, Actos. Oracea (doxycycline) is the only US Food and Drug Administration approved oral drug to treat rosacea -- a skin disorder in the face with inflammation, skin redness and spider veins.
Banks can collapse, markets can be rigged, investment instruments can become worthless overnight, auditors can fail to blow the whistle, board directors can be asleep, and regulators can be incompetent, notes T N Ninan.
The US move came after the Justice Department said that hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies across the world.
The friendly, over-considerate shy person may have phenomenally intelligent things to say, but without being assertive and speaking up, they are left in the dark, says trainer and communications expert Nasha Fitter.
Karan Mahajan, New Delhi-raised and New York-based author, is up for a prestigious literary award.
'We look forward to providing great customer experiences in India.'
Dr Shankara Prasad is different compared to the rest of the candidates. An M.Tech in Materials Engineering from the IIT-Kanpur and a Ph.D in Materials Science & Engineering from State University of New York, Stony Brook, United States of America, Dr Prasad after spending a major part of life outside India has returned to his home town Bangalore and says that he wants to make a change.
'This year felt different -- and was different.' 'For the first time, the Indian American voter seemed to matter.'
Here's a recap of moments captured in India in the past 24 hours.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing his government of "extraordinarily large" interference in academic institutions.
The 40 Master of Business Administration students from Mumbai's S P Jain Center of Management say studying at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, has been a learning experience.
Modi, who will be addressing the General Debate for the first time in five years, has a packed bilateral and multilateral agenda beginning September 23 till September 27.
During the first of the three presidential debates in Cleveland, Ohio, Trump and Biden clashed over each other's personality, past record, family and their visions.
The 41- year old is currently the head of macro trading in Goldman's Securities Division.
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