Harvard University adds caste as protected category for student workers

Harvard University has added caste as a protected category for all graduate and undergraduate student workers. Photograph: Kind courtesy Harvard University/ Facebook The historic addition marks......

Harvard cheating scandal: 60 students forced to withdraw

Over 60 students at the Harvard University have been forced to withdraw and several others disciplined after being implicated in one of the largest cheating scandals that shook the Ivy League......

The Smart Thing Vs The Right Thing

What should one choose to do, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The other day, as I got into the aircraft on a flight from Delhi to Mumbai, realising that I was in......

Namaste and welcome to St Xavier's

Barack Obama will visit St Xavier's college, arguably Mumbai's best known college, on Sunday. Tilotamma Kaul takes us on a quick tour of the hallowed institution."I went to an Ivy League college......

'Work for the govt?' Yes, say Ivy League profs, Silicon Valley techies

Advertisement on mygov.in gets 8,000 applications and counting; govt to maintain bank of CVs for future use In a row of non-descript rooms along the third floor corridor at Electronics Niketan in......

IIMs go slow on foreign student admissions

Lack of adequate infrastructure, faculty and an India-centric view is preventing the Indian Institute of Managements from admitting more foreign students unlike their counterpart ivy league schools......

Investors run background checks on PE fund managers

It was a routine check by the West Asia-based LP (limited partner or investor), when they were approached by an Indian private equity fund manager to raise his new fund.But, when the outcome of the......

Yale, Harvard, MIT buy Sibal's plan

Ivy League colleges-- Yale, Harvard, Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-- have approached the ministry of human resources development to collaborate in the proposed Innovation......