HYDERABAD: A student of city-based Nalsar University of Law, Suhasini Sen, has been selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship for 2012.The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was instituted in 2000 with the munificence of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Nalsar student has bagged the prestigious scholarship in a stiff global competition. Fifty outstanding individuals were selected for the scholarship from 23 countries, of whom only three are from India. Of...
11:08 AM, May 08, 2012
Cambridge: About 100 students protested on Friday ahead of a speech at Cambridge University by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief whose career collapsed after he was charged with sexual assault. The 62-year-old French politician, often called DSK, was scheduled to speak on Europe's financial crisis at the university's debating society later on Friday despite calls for the event to be canceled. The protesters said the university should...
10:17 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Kolkata: Amartya Sen and Partha Dasgupta received it and now Mahima Khanna is basking in its glory. The 23-year-old Kolkata girl is the third Indian recipient of the prestigious Stevenson prize for economics from Cambridge university. Mahima said, "It's an astounding feeling to have achieved one of the milestones that these people have achieved." But it wasn't an easy life for Mahima. She is a single parent child it was...
08:46 AM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: Mahima Khanna, a 23-year-old from Kolkata, has become the third Indian to win one of Cambridge University's highest honours - the Stevenson Prize. Khanna topped the 2010-11 MPhil class of economics at Cambridge. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was the first Indian to win the award in 1956. Sir Partha Dasgupta, a Cambridge professor emeritus, won it in 1967. Dasgupta was knighted by the queen for his contribution to...
12:01 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Kolkata: Months after forming the West Bengal government by defeating the communists, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has received an invitation from Harvard University to give a lecture on the politics and culture of the state, officials said. Sources close to Banerjee said the formal invitation from the hallowed institution was received at the chief minister's secretariat on Saturday. Banerjee has been requested to speak on either the 'Culture and Politics...
06:13 PM, Sep 04, 2011
London: An Indian social activist campaigning for the rehabilitation of manual scavengers has been invited to interact with the students of Cambridge University. Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, will share his views on the issue of human rights and his experience while campaigning against the practice of manual scavenging in various parts of India. The lecture will be held Friday. "The students would be thrilled to hear about...
10:35 AM, Jan 20, 2011
London: A unique project has been launched by the University of Cambridge to provide public access to languages in India and elsewhere that are endangered and are part of the world's disappearing spoken traditions. The open database has been developed by the university's researchers at the World Oral Literature Project at its website, www.oralliterature.org. The projects include ethnographic documentation of the literature and culture of the indigenous Mudugar and Kurumbar...
12:20 AM, Dec 13, 2010
The univ has written a letter clearing the air over his qualifications. ...
12:03 PM, Apr 29, 2009
The scholarship programme has been set up exclusively for Indian students. ...
06:59 PM, Oct 29, 2008
New Delhi: Jonty Rhodes will be a most unhappy man. The South African fielding coach of the Mumbai Indians was known for scorching the field and holding on to impossible catches and for effecting flying run-outs. But his wards on Tuesday let the game slip through their fingers as they lost out on the all-important two points that they badly needed to keep their chances alive in the Champions League...
02:16 PM, Oct 15, 2007
Hundreds of girls are working as vice girls and strippers to pay stiff university fees. ...
01:18 PM, Oct 11, 2007
ICWA would introduce 2-3 new courses, including one to cater to the needs of BPO and IT sector, from the coming academic year. ...
03:31 PM, Mar 22, 2007
The secret of Manmohan Singh trademark blue turban was revealed on Wednesday at Cambridge. ...
11:52 AM, Oct 12, 2006
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh became one of the few people to have received doctorate degrees from Oxford and Cambridge University. ...
11:11 PM, Oct 11, 2006
Doctorate of Law describes PM as “cool, calm, well aware of justice that serves the state and man." ...
06:21 PM, Oct 11, 2006
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