Mumbai Univ VC told to stop coming to work

Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Rajan Welukar was on Thursday directed to abstain from attending the office and discharging his duties as the VC with immediate effect, a few months before his......

High tide at Shivaji Park, Mumbai

As rains lashed Mumbai, the metropolis faced one of the highest tides of the season that  hit its shores on Thursday. The city experienced a high tide of 5.1 metres at......

Virginia Univ remembers victims of 2007 shooting

The special qualities of Professor G V Loganathan and Minal Hiralal Panchal and 30 other faculty and students of the Virginia Tech university community, who were killed a year ago on April 16, were......

No Indian varsity among world's top 200 univs

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......

'The world is your oyster, dear IIT-ians'

In an interesting chat with rediff.com on Friday, Sumant Sinha, chief financial officer of the Aditya Birla Group, shared his thoughts on the forthcoming Pan IIT Global Conefrence 2006 to be held......

Cognizant hires 504 in a day at Anna Univ campus

It is perhaps a record of sorts as far as campus recruitments go in India.Cognizant Technology Solutions, one of the fastest growing IT services companies in India, has made a whopping 504......

Kaushik named India's hockey coach

Maharaj Kishan Kaushik is back as coach of India's men's hockey team, ten years after the guiding itto the gold medal at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games. His selection was finalised at a meeting of......