'I mean, that was one thing that I promised myself coming on to the court today, that I need to stay calm and composed, because I knew that the atmosphere would be as it was'
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research announces the A*Star India Youth Scholarships 2008, full scholarships for four years of secondary and pre-university studies in Singapore.
The decision is a part of a surveillance review.
All the fixes require either the enactment of a data-protection law, or the amendment of our existing competition law. This can take many years. However, there is an opportunity for the government to act immediately if it wishes to, says Sunil Abraham.
'Macaulay would be less dismissive of India if his Sanskrit dictionary had not fallen off the boat.' A fascinating interview with historian Piers Brendon, author of the provocative The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997.
The study, carried out at the University of Cambridge, indicates that Muslim women believe life in Europe has given them freedom, opportunities and security. It also reveals that an emerging generation of Muslim women are becoming increasingly independent and are determined to assert their right to a full education, a career and to follow their own dreams.
Rekha Kumari-Baker, 41, admitted the killings but had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Davina Baker, 16, and Jasmine Baker, 13, were killed with a kitchen knife in a frenzied attack in 2007.
A team of UK researchers has taken the first step on what could be a stairway to heaven.
The car made its debut on the test track at Ford's Dunton Technical Centre on August 15. It was the only full test-drive before travelling to the other side of the globe to take part in the Global Green Challenge - a 3,000-km race across the Australian Outback this autumn.
Debroy is expected to have a role and responsibility similar to the erstwhile chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
Citing the complaint, the Bharatiya Janata Party said in New Delhi asked Gandhi to come clean on the matter.
Asserting that he is a testimony to the progress America has made with regard to racism, President Barack Obama has acknowledged that race remains a factor in the US society.
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
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.
Kate Middleton didn't disappoint on Day Three of her visit to India with these three gorgeous dresses.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month, in 14 images.
The Padma Shri winner and eminent scientist speaks to Senior Editor Ajit Jain
Forget volatility. Want success in the stock market? Man, watch out your sex hormone level, as a new study has found that higher testosterone in the morning leads to higher earnings for the rest of that day. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have found that testosterone increases confidence and appetite for risk -- qualities that may augment the performance of any financial trader who expect a positive expected return.
A film as strongly scripted and impeccably executed as The Theory of Everything will be remembered for longer than Stephen Hawking's estimate of the end of time, says Paloma Sharma.
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
Primary school teacher Hanan Al Hroub from a refugee camp in conflict-torn Palestine has won the Global Teacher Prize for educating her students about non-violence.
'There was a time between 1985 to the mid-1990s when computing power was with the chip. Then till 2005, the power was with network. We have now just entered a phase where the power will be with the people. People are the new computers,' says Dr Ramesh Raskar, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute Technology's Media Lab.
Yes, long before he created Bond, author Ian Fleming rescued MI6 from an untimely death by inadvertently paving the way for the secret service to be infiltrated by members of the Russian KGB's Cambridge ring, its most destructive traitors, according to the newly released documents.
For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the "beneficiaries" -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is put at the centre of any policy design. This is a crucial way in which experimental results are often better than large scale data-based inference, says Mihir S Sharma.
Tata Consultancy Services has been named as one of the world's top BPO providers by The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals for 2006, a release said in Mumbai.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on entrance examinations, admission procedures at international universities.
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'.
Caisse manages nearly $155 billion of pension and insurance funds in Canada and North America while Ivanhoe has 70 shopping centres in Canada, the US, Europe and Latin America, totalling 46 million sq ft.
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.
Have a look at these photos taken from the incredible world we live in. These are the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 2020.
Kensington Palace confirmed that formal invitations have been sent by the Prince of Wales, for the May 19 service at St George's Chapel, Windsor.
This summer, enrol for free English lessons at the British Council, Mumbai.
''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.
'What I would love him to do most is to become a life coach and share his incredible story of struggle, success, and survival,' says marketing guru Sandeep Goyal.
The good, bad and ugly looks from the celebrity circus.
The Duchess of Cambridge showed off her new hair at a recent event and we can't stop raving about it! Do you like her short new cut?
As the due date of Britain's royal baby number two looms near, fans have gathered outside Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hospital.
Singapore Airlines is offering a scholarship for a two-year pre-university course in selected junior colleges in Singapore.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Aston Business School have found that investment in Research and Development (R&D) is rapidly shifting from North America and Europe to Asia.
Physicist Stephen Hawking to trademark his name.
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