'I will try and make my panchayat a model one in Bihar.'
Under the Shri Gopal Rajgarhia International Programme which was launched on Wednesday, at least 10 professors from some of the world's leading universities would come to the Kharagpur campus each year for few months.
Author and politician Shashi Tharoor chats with Sumita Vaid Dixit about writing, tweeting and world affairs.
The sentencing of Indian Institute of Technology alumnus Vikram Buddhi, who has been in prison since 2006 for posting hate messages against former president George Bush has been postponed for Friday by a US court. The sentence hearing for 38-year-old PhD student of Purdue University was postponed on Thursday as the judge said there are certain other legal issues that need to be addressed.
Both men and women tend to gain weight right after marriage. So, health experts have offered some tips that will help couples stay healthier together.
With his elevation as the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, in whom co-founder of the microblogging giant Jack Dorsey has "bone-deep" trust, joins the growing power club of Indian-origin executives helming US-based global multinationals. Twitter's outgoing CEO Dorsey announced on Monday that 37-year old Agrawal, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Stanford University alumnus, will be the company's new chief executive as he stepped down after 16 years at the company that he co-founded and helmed. A report in The New York Times said Agrawal will receive an annual salary of $1 million, in addition to bonuses, restricted stock units and performance-based stock units.
A joint research programme between the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and the University of Reading, UK on `Science of Regional Climate Change, Variability and Impacts`, has been selected for a `Major Award` under the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).
If Pranav Mistry has his way, people around the world can build their own wearable 'SixthSense' -- which uses a camera that understands human gestures -- at a cost of less than Rs 15,000 ($300) by obtaining the software he developed for free in the next few months.
Yemen is ranked the worst (153rd), while Iraq is 152nd and Pakistan 151st.
The ministry will engage 30 young graduates, postgraduates and PhD-holders in the fields of urban planning, urban design, engineering, information and technology, urban mobility, finance, social sector, and environmental issues.
This is the first time the American University has entered into an academic partnership with an Indian institute.
In the changed circumstances and attitudes in Britain, we must let bygones be bygones, argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Vice Consuls from the US Consulate General, Mumbai hosted a chat on July 10, 2009. For those of you who missed the chat, here's the unedited transcript.
Whenever the history of India's National Law Schools is written, N R Madhava Menon's name will be deeply inscribed in it, says Mohammad Zeeshan Ahmad.
VIGSR, in Mumbai, offers the first postgraduate diploma in medical genetics in India.
Some mango components act on the same pathways that diabetes and cholesterol drugs target.
JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who walked out of Tihar jail on bail last week, on Wednesday indicated that he is unlikely to campaign in the upcoming West Bengal and Kerala assembly polls.
The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade announces the IIFT-PHD-CDC National Consulting Symposium 2008 on the "Role of Consultants in Emerging Knowledge Based Economy" to be held on August 11, 2008.
Tips for nabbing government grants.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, invites applications for its PhD programme.
Saeed Mirza on two young men who have broken barriers and emerged as beacons for a New India.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France, invites applications for the 2006-2007 Eiffel scholarships and Eiffel doctoral scholarships.
Eating breakfast before exercise increases the speed at which we digest, absorb and metabolise carbohydrate that we may eat after exercise.
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 retirement.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
"Please do not call my son a terrorist," says JNUSU President Kanhaiya's mother.
Back in 1958, when the 31-year-old Parker suggested that the charged particles streamed continuously from the Sun and fill up the space, the scientific community refused to believe him.
Friends and family of Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad university PhD scholar who committed suicide, on Friday said that they would 'expose the lies' of HRD Minister Smriti Irani .
Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and co-master of Cabot House, was named dean of Harvard College Wednesday.
Mumbai recorded over 250 mm of rain in just three hours (between midnight and 3 am), touching 305 mm by 7 am on Sunday, a meteorologist said.
For former and current students in US universities, a chance to tell us what you really think about life abroad!
'India has 1 lawyer per 1,000 population.' 'Opportunities in the field of law are plenty.'
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
The MS Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies invites applications for its full time/part time doctoral programme.
The brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has been taken into custody by counter-terrorism police
'For a Dalit boy to reach the PhD stage, it requires a lot of pain and hard work. He was a scholar, an intelligent student.' 'This is not about the loss of just an individual, but the loss of this nation.'
