Here is the full text of the letter drafted by three University of Pennsylvania professors and signed by hundreds of eminent academics and members of the intelligentsia to protest against Wharton's invite to Narendra Modi. This petition led to cancellation of the invite. ...
11:18:54 AM Mar 06, 2013
The controversy generated over the invite extended to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to address the India Economic Forum at The Wharton School of the ...
06:57:35 PM Mar 05, 2013
An NRI education pioneer, known for his innovative 'hole-in-the-wall' experiment to give computer education to slum children, has been awarded with the prestigious $1 million TED prize. Dr Sugata Mitra, a Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK, accepted the award - TED's annual prize of $one million that gives an exceptional individual the chance to conceive and launch a...
11:59:51 AM Feb 27, 2013
The recent debate as to whether the United Kingdom should withdraw aid from India has generated strong emotions in both India and the UK (See ...
11:54:11 AM Feb 25, 2013
Geek at Large caught up with Avinash Chander, Chief Controller Research and Development ( Missiles and Strategic Systems), DRDO, at Metcalfe House, New Delhi last ...
05:26:22 PM Feb 07, 2013
The demand for edible oils in India has shown a compounded growth of 4.5 per cent over the last 10 years. ...
12:25:03 PM Feb 01, 2013
India's nuclear triad is far from complete. But India has crossed a major technological hurdle with the launch of the Bo5 (aka K-15) medium range ...
05:58:05 PM Jan 28, 2013
The 22nd day of December this year marked the 20th anniversary of a particular amendment to the Indian Constitution. In very boring, dry language of ...
02:33:29 PM Dec 28, 2012
Could 2013 see Washington pushing India harder on arms sales? The buzz is that President Obama, in his second term, will do precisely that (perhaps ...
03:05:32 PM Dec 11, 2012
Jairam Ramesh and the Ministry of Rural Development deserve to be congratulated for making the Annual Report for 2011-12 available in the public domain. It ...
12:49:25 PM Nov 27, 2012
Remember the tunnel that Pakistan built, running 20 feet deep into India's Samba sector which the Border Security Force detected four months ago? From the ...
11:46:26 AM Nov 16, 2012
A few years back I was travelling from Lucknow to Kolkata by train. There was, as always, a shortage of tickets, and therefore for the ...
01:34:41 PM Nov 14, 2012
At the World Economic Forum for India 2012 in Gurgaon, there has been a movement away from numbers. One reason could be that our growth numbers are not that impressive. ...
01:32:26 PM Nov 08, 2012
Industry leaders, academics and politicians agree that reforms are desperately needed. ...
02:58:17 PM Nov 07, 2012
The World Economic Forum India 2012 meet being held in Gurgaon from November 6 to November 8 holds special significance not just for India but for the rest of the world. ...
02:47:35 PM Nov 06, 2012
