To put things in perspective, Americans constitute 5 per cent of the global population, but consume about 40 per cent of the global resources.
Meanwhile, in a major setback to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Illinois Senator Barack Obama secured the victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating mode that is more fuel efficient and equally clean.
Nancy Barry, president of NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty and former president of Women's World Banking, is set to have an Ahmedabad connection.
Ten young under-40 innovators and entrepreneurs of South Asian origin will be given the Global Indus Technovators Awards at a ceremony at MIT on Monday.
Imagine that the particles visible in turbulent water are like an army of ants being chased through a bowl of mixed-up red and blue spaghetti.
Air travellers have come to recognise as routine the gut-wrenching sensation they experience as their flight jostles after hitting an 'air-pocket'-- scientifically known as turbulence.
The Kennedys have put their considerable clout behind Barack Obama's campaign to be the first coloured man to be President of the United States of America.
With about 80 per cent of the precincts reporting, Romney, who earlier lost the Iowa and New Hampshire votes, had 39 per cent of ballots in his his native state, McCain 30 per cent and Mike Huckabee 16 per cent.
As general computing systems become smaller, we are reaching a point at which it becomes conceivable to don these devices easily, says Andy Fagg of the University of Massachusetts.
Vijay Shriwardhankar states that official claims that he refused to co-operate with authorities are false.
Arthur J Pais has interviewed Anita Desai many times over the years. Here, he shares impressions and anecdotes about the celebrated author.
As with the last 37 years, this year too the India Day Parade in New York saw thousands of Indian Americans throng Manhattan's Madison Avenue to celebrate India's Independence Day. For the thousands of Indians who turned up, it was a once in a year chance to showcase their country's rich cultural diversity.
The earth is actually part of a formation called the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy; an entity so small -- in the larger scheme of the cosmos -- that it got swallowed up by the Milky Way.
Mumbai shouldn't be the Shanghai of 2006. Just having skyscrapers is not going to matter, says MIT don Yasheng Huang.
The only Indian university in THE world rankings this year.
Researchers can finally explain why we experience those feelings of deja-vu.
Imam Hafiz Muhammad Hamid, Saeed's brother, was deported on Sunday and is expected to arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday morning, Daily Times reported from Washington on Monday.
Patni Computer Systems Ltd said on Monday it has acquired ZAiQ Technologies, a small ASIC design company, in Woburn, Massachusetts, by an asset purchase transaction for $425,000.
Experts said the tensions have added to a sense of apprehension in the United States, Europe and parts of Asia that China will engage in more aggressive behaviour in pursuit of its territorial interests, which in turn has raised the possibility of a serious and coordinated pushback by leading global players.
Srikanth Bolla, CEO of Bollant Industries, has set his sights on changing lives
Bihar may be one of the most backward states of India with high level of illiteracy, but its chief misters, past and present are a great hit with some of the most famed American educational institutions.
Those who ditched the sun, a study has revealed, looked up to 20 years younger.
Do you think foreign funds should be allowed in India's higher education sector? Will it be a boon or curse for the Indian economy? Or does it sound silly to run foreign playschools, colleges and universities in India?
For the 'most promising and exciting' innovations and research in the United States, six Indian-American scientists under the age of 35 will be awarded by Technology Review 35, the prominent tech journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A patent is to an idea what an alert watchman is to your property. Everyone can look, but no one can steal.
'The American armament companies, though late entrant want to make the Indian defence market more competitive and technology-oriented.'
The cleric, who is fighting a legal battle against his deportation, said that he does not remember the last conversation he had with his brother.
The transparent fibre-webs could even enable huge computer screens to be activated with beams of light instead of the touch of a finger.
Nasdaq Stock Market Incorporated has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire shareholder.com, a privately-held Massachusetts-based firm specialising in shareholder communications
Fewer than half of Americans plan to go to sports events, concerts, movies and amusement parks when they reopen to the public until there is a proven coronavirus vaccine. That includes those who have attended such events in the past, an ominous sign for the sports and entertainment industries hoping to return to the spotlight after being shut down by the pandemic.
Correa played a defining role in developing architecture of post-Independence India and has designed some of the most outstanding structures.
Former Massachusetts Gover Mitt Romney has said that while he is for increasing the quota for H1B visa, a majority of whose aspirants are Indians, the exact figures would depend on a number of things including the strength of the US economy and the implications for the local workforce.
They are small town boys who went on to make it big in global financial powerhouses.
Nikhil Dhar had been flunking out of school and feared he would be deported.
The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, had recently announced the elimination of more than 120 jobs at the Boston Globe. Of these, 55 jobs in advertising finance will be outsourced to India.
