Washington: Students from top American universities, including Columbia, Cornell and Harvard, would participate in the fourth edition of the Yale Hindi debate. The one of its kind debate with the preliminary on March 30 and final on April 6, the students from these top American universities would debate on theme "Higher education is not worth it". The debate, a pride for the Yale, was started in 2008 as an internal...
12:07 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Los Angeles: Harvard regained its top spot on a list of most talked-about US universities on the Internet, beating its rivals just in time for a return to fall studies, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Harvard conquered stiff competition from runners-up Northwestern University and the University of California, Berkeley based on the number of mentions it receives on the Web, according to the Global Language Monitor, which tracks...
12:19 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Bogota: Joe Arroyo, a Colombian singer and songwriter who created his own signature style of dance music, died on Tuesday in a hospital in the Caribbean coastal city of Barranquilla, his family said. He was 56. The artist "died peacefully", his wife - Jackelin Ramon - told the press after being with him during his last moments in his room at the La Asuncion clinic where he had been receiving...
03:17 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Marrero: The 65-year-old head of a university in Colombia said Thursday that he ate a few plant stems and drank urine to survive four days stranded in a Louisiana swamp. Francisco Piedrahita of Universidad Icesi in Cali, was spotted Wednesday from a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office helicopter in a clearing several hundred yards from the trail where he had gone Saturday to photograph brightly colored male wood ducks. He left...
11:15 AM, May 27, 2011
Toronto: A Canadian blogger's moving last message of love and hope published after he died from colon cancer last week has drawn millions of hits from people everywhere inspired by his grace. Derek Miller, 41, ends it with a declaration to his wife of 16 years: "I don't know what we'd have been like without each other, but I think the world would be a poorer place. I loved you...
01:29 PM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi:The first Bollywood amateur film ever shot at the Columbia Business School with an all-student star cast is a six minute clip that spoofs done-to-death cinematic cliches. 'Bollywood MBA', put up by CBS Follies, a student-run organization that produces a variety show on the last day of every semester, tells the story of a young Indian boy who gets admission to the Columbia Business School and promptly falls in...
04:04 PM, May 06, 2011
Cape Canaveral: The space shuttle Discovery capped a successful 13-day spaceflight with a smooth landing in Florida on Wednesday, ending a 27-year flying career for NASA's most-traveled spaceship as the agency prepares for an uncertain future. With commander Steven Lindsey at the controls, Discovery touched down at 11:57 am EST (1657 GMT) to wrap a cargo run and construction mission at the International Space Station. Discovery accumulated 365 days in...
11:28 PM, Mar 09, 2011
Washington: US space shuttle Discovery has lifted off on its own final scheduled flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deliver a storage room to the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA TV, the shuttle blasted off at 4:53 pm. (2153 GMT) on Thursday. "Good to be here", Discovery Commander Steve Lindsey radioed soon after the three main engines shut off and the external fuel tank was...
07:03 AM, Feb 25, 2011
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said he will not be able to visit New York to give a lecture at Columbia Business School on April 1 as the dates clash with the forthcoming budget session of the state legislature. He was invited by the top B-school to address their 7th India Business Conference themed - 'India: an honest conversation'. Kumar, however, thanked the institute for the invite....
11:46 PM, Jan 30, 2011
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An amateur cameraman caught on tape the dramatic rescue of three women stuck in a taxi the middle of a flash flood in Barranquilla in Columbia. ...
03:01 PM, Aug 14, 2010
Six years after Space Shuttle Columbia blew up; NASA knows what went wrong. ...
08:22 PM, Dec 31, 2008
India-born Kalpana Chawla was killed in the space shuttle crash of 2003. ...
07:49 AM, Dec 31, 2008
FARC has been holding high-profile hostages in exchange for jailed rebels. ...
10:16 PM, Jul 03, 2008
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