Indian American CEO appointed to New York's racial justice board

Udai Tambar, an Indian-origin CEO involved in youth development services in the US, is among 15 experts appointed as members of the newly-formed racial justice advisory board in New York City.......

The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

Likely Nobel prize winners for 2014

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2013 “Nobel-class” Citation Laureates on Wednesday, which names 28 researchers representing 22 distinct academic and......

Meet the Indian-origin teen who got into all 8 Ivy League schools

The 17-year-old has developed a mobile app that analyses speech patterns and predicts with 96 per cent accuracy if a person has Parkinson's disease Pooja has now shortlisted Harvard, Stanford and......

'Universities have become vacuum cleaners'

'They suck talent and dump elsewhere.' IMAGE: A photograph of Zoho Mail's engineers at 2 am after releasing a new version in 2015."As long as we get people with basic aptitude, it is easy to train......

Gita Gopinath to quit as IMF chief economist, return to Harvard

IMF's Chief Economist Gita Gopinath will leave her job in January next year and return to the prestigious Harvard University, according to the global financial institution. Photograph: Charles......

Fresh Ivy league post-graduates can't be analysts in India

Regulations ensure only postgraduates from Indian universities qualify for the job the day they clear their exams Recently, the chief executive of a financial services firm came across an......

Indians give up cushy jobs abroad to come back to their homeland

Armed with pricey degrees from colleges overseas, young Indians are heading back home in search for greener pastures, finds Anjuli Bhargava. Image: India is where the action is today. Photograph,......