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Kashmiri researcher leaves BITS Pilani campus after threats

A 27-year-old Kashmiri researcher at the premier BITS Pilani in Rajasthan has left for home after alleging that he was threatened by some unidentified persons, barely three weeks after joining the......

How alumni wired BITS, Pilani

Life without the Internet is unimaginable at any technology university today. But at BITS, Pilani, one of the premier technical institutes in the country, students have to line up to use a PC.But......

UGC, expert panel against eminence tag to Bengal's Jadavpur varsity, Jamia

An expert panel and the University Grants Commission have recommended that Jadavpur University and Jamia Hamdard University, which were shortlisted by the Centre for granting institutions of......

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......

Programmes at BITS, Pilani

The Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, invites applications for admission in the second semester starting January 2004 in the following programmes:Integrated First Degree Programmes......

India may pip US as largest GitHub base soon: Nadella

India is expected to overtake the US as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer Satya Nadella said during his address to 1,100 developers......

How a Kanpur-born Indian-origin CEO is a chip off the old block

In the technology (tech) world, especially storage, Sanjay Mehrotra is a well-known name. Co-founder of SanDisk, a flash memory storage company in 1988, it was eventually acquired by Western......

Govt set to approve Micron Technology's $1-billion semiconductor plant

The government is close to approving a proposal by Micron Technology to set up an assembly, testing, marking and packaging (ATMP) facility in the country involving an investment of about $1......

HDFC Bank aims to become go-to bank for start-ups

Close to 9,000 start-ups are currently banking with HDFC Bank and it has the bank now dedicated SmartUp zones in 70 branches in 30 cities across India. HDFC Bank aims to be a dominant and go-to......

Microsoft launches AI digital labs in India, to train 1.5 lakh students

As part of the three-year programme, Microsoft will support select institutions with infrastructure, curriculum and content, access to cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services as well as......

The Indian Film Making Global Waves

'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.''If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?''What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'......

Tamil actor Jayam Ravi weds

Jayam Ravi, one of the most successful and promising young actors in Tamil got married to Aarthi on June 4 at Hotel Park Sheraton in Chennai. The actor burst into the Tamil scene with Jayam......

Telugu actor Manoj Manchu gets engaged

Telugu actor Manchu Manoj got engaged to Pranathi Reddy during a morning ceremony held at Park Hyatt in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, on March 4. A look at the pictures.......

'Dravid's inclusion in ODIs a backward step'

India's bowling is their Achilles' heel and recalling Rahul Dravid to prop the batting order is a retrograde step, according to former cricketers Wasim Akram and Sanjay Manjrekar. Both reckon that......

Video: Woman fan tries to kiss Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan's form may have deserted him, but his charm radiates. The handsome Baroda pacer barely avoided embarrassment on Monday when a female fan in Kolkata tried to kiss him in......

Don't have to be No 1 in the world, you have to be No 1 to yourself: Dravid

Former Indian captain Rahul Dravid has said that cricket's influence in his life was such that the game made him a better person. "One and half years after my retirement I have realised that......