1st woman Director of IIM-C quits after tiff with faculty

First woman Director of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta Anju Seth has stepped down from her post in the backdrop of confrontation with the teaching faculty. She resigned from the post one......

17 US states, tech giants sue against new visa rule

As many as 17 United States states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's new visa policy for international students, calling it a "cruel, abrupt, and......

'Coronavirus is airborne': Over 200 scientists write to WHO

The World Health Organization has long held that the coronavirus is spread primarily by large respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. IMAGE: The ultrastructural morphology......

A maniac with a gun, a life lost in vain

Robbed of prey as people fled, Omar Perez came marching back and shot bullet after bullet into Prudhvi Raj Kandepi's head, thus ensuring that a man he had never met before, known nothing of, would......

The latest member of the $100 bn club!

It is so exclusive that it has just three members. Until Thursday, June 20, Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon, were its only members. The $100 billion club,......

Jobs are plenty, but techies in India lack necessary skillsets: IBM chief

There have been reports that nearly three-fourths of the millions of engineers and B-school graduates are simply not employable at all, speaking volumes about the quality of both the academics as......

Anju Seth, IIM-C's first woman director

'She was the unanimous choice of the search-cum-selection committee.'Avishek Rakshit reports. Professor Anju Seth. Photograph: Kind courtesy Anju Seth/facebook.com Anju Seth, an alumnus of the......

Smartphone apps may be secretly stealing your data: study

Researchers conducted the first ever large-scale and systematic study of exactly how the trusty apps on Android phones are able to talk to one another and trade information Smartphone apps that we......

Tennis goes high tech to groom future champions

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has gone high-tech in its bid to end Britain's dearth of world class tennis players. The country that hosts the most famous grasscourt tournament, Wimbledon, has......