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Omar Yaghi: The Live-Wire Nobel Laureate

'It was from him I learnt that if you gave the student the freedom to find his own path, he would be more courageous to experiment.' IMAGE: Professor Omar Yaghi in his lab at the University of......

'Supreme Court Should Remove Biren Singh'

'There are 7,000 guns which are in the hands of the armed militia of the Kuki and Meitei communities.' IMAGE: The bodies of Kuki militants, who were killed in an encounter with the Central Reserve......

The Global Ambassador Of Indian Music

He was a formidable musician but seemed utterly human, a Peter Pan who wore his genius with deceptive lightness. Sandip Roy remembers Ustad Zakir Hussain. IMAGE: Ustad Zakir Hussain at one of his......

100 Indian Elephants March To New York

Photograph: Kind courtesy The Great Elephant Migration A huge herd of elephants -- 100 of them -- are arriving in Manhattan on Friday, which is also auspiciously the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi. Nope,......

'Partition is a massive part of our history'

'Partition was a two-sided story in a very big way.''We've oversimplified it, blamed the British, thought of ourselves only as victims.''We've been both victims and perpetrators.' IMAGE: One of......

Edtech start-up Eruditus gets funding from Zuckerberg duo

Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech,......

150,000 entrepreneurs in US have returned to India!

More and more skilled people from countries like India and China are increasingly returning home from the US, which has led to an 'entrepreneurship boom' in the two Asian countries, a new report......

Solar lighting could create as many as 2 million jobs!

In Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, India, Indonesia, and Kenya, fuel-based lighting is not particularly 'job-intensive.' Switching from fuel-based lighting -- such as firewood and kerosene......

'Robo Brain' to teach robots how to mimic humans

Researchers, including Indian-origin scientists, have designed a 'Robo Brain' that gathers information from the Internet to teach robots how the world works and how the humans around them behave.......

World Bank's Chief Economist: Can India create a Silicon Valley?

'There is no tried and true recipe for creating Silicon Valleys.''Attracting and creating a mass of truly dynamic entrepreneurs is at the core and among the hardest and most necessary......

India, Merchant-Ivory and the Oscars

Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End.She kept her distance from the film......

'Acting courses can't teach you how to act'

Who knew jumping around in a shop as a kid could lead to a career in acting? Barkha Singh certainly didn't. Today, with more than 500 ads , four serials (Bhagyalakshmi, Love By Chance, Fanaah and......

Liverpool lead the way in spreading Premier League gospel

A Liverpool fan holds aloft her team scarf. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Liverpool will cover most miles of any Premier League club in pre-season preparation, closely followed by......

Muhammad Ali's Muslim funeral service to draw thousands

‘To be properly prepared for burial, prayed over and then buried is a right owed to every single Muslim’ IMAGE: Momentos, including a pair of boxing gloves, lie at a makeshift......

Muhammad Ali's life celebrated by thousands at prayer service

IMAGE: Boxing gloves with well wishes are left at a makeshift memorial for late boxing champion Muhammad Ali in Louisville. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters. A Muslim funeral for Muhammad Ali on......