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My partner and son...: Elon Musk reveals his Indian connection

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his partner Shivon Zilis is "half-Indian" and one of their children's middle name is 'Sekhar' after the Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. IMAGE: Investor and......

Abhijit Banerjee joins list of Indian Nobel Laureates

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Economics, joining the list of Indians and people of Indian origin to grab the world's most prestigious award in different fields.......

Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana passes away

Pioneering Indian American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, has died of natural causes in Concord, Massachusetts. Khorana, 89, who was Massachusetts......

5 Indian-Americans awarded 2020 Guggenheim fellowship

Five Indian-Americans have been awarded with a prestigious United States fellowship for their accomplishments and 'exceptional promise'. Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University......

Trump Taunts Modi, But India, US Still Do Business

India and the US have collaborated through the past one month on launching a powerful satellite; are commencing joint production of GE Aerospace's F414 jet engines in India; India is participating......

How India can get the best researchers

The aggregate domestic R&D spend in India has never exceeded 1 per cent of GDP, and over 80 per cent of Indian firms spend nothing on research, says Shyamal Majumdar. Last Sunday, Prime Minister......

Abhijit Banerjee, 2nd Presidency alumni to win Nobel in Economics

Amartya Sen was the other Presidency alumni to win the Economics Nobel. Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize along with two others - his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on Monday "for......

India's kerosene stoves a climate hazard: Al Gore

Nobel Laureate Al Gore has warned that black carbon emissions from the kerosene powered lamps and stoves of the subcontinent will adversely impact the great rivers that are the lifeblood of......

Indian economy is on a shaky ground: Abhijit Banerjee

'In the last five-six years, at least we could witness some growth, but now that assurance is also gone,' Banerjee told a news channel from the US. Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who on Monday......

Ajay Banga poised to become World Bank chief unopposed

Indian-American business leader Ajay Banga is poised to become the next President of the World Bank after the nomination period closed and no country proposed an alternate candidate for the......

The Indian who inspired Sean Penn

Graffiti in an Omaha, Nebraska, alleyway in the US quoting Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore left such a deep impression on Sean Penn that it was instrumental in his humanitarian and philanthropic......

Why Bob Dylan's music mattered to India

The unconventional music of the Nobel Laureate might have nothing connecting Indians to it. But there is a reason he has a following here, notes T C A Srinivasa Raghavan. IMAGE: Bob Dylan has been......