London: Nearly 20 years after Oxford University awarded her an honorary doctorate in Civil Law, democracy icon and Myanmar opposition leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi will arrive in UK to receive it at a special ceremony on June 20, the university on Thursday said. Suu Kyi studied, married and lived in Oxford for many years until 1988, when she left for Myanmar to visit her ailing mother, but did not...
03:38 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the aviation sector as the 'real World Wide Web', a study has said it is currently contributing Rs 33,000 crore or 0.5 per cent of India's GDP and supporting 1.7 million jobs in the country, besides creating much-needed critical assets. The study, conducted by Oxford Economics for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently, says aviation not only provided significant economic benefits to the Indian economy and...
11:30 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Kolkata: With a series of new publishing initiatives, which includes releasing of Jim Corbett's unpublished writings, the Oxford University Press (OUP) is celebrating 100 years of operations in India this year. "As a department of the University of Oxford, OUP will celebrate by showcasing its rich history in India through re-issues of classics and by launching major new centenary year publishing initiatives in 2012," OUP India's Managing Director Manzar Khan...
11:21 PM, Jan 29, 2012
London: The discovery by British scientists of a new 'provisioning' gene in maize plants that regulates the transfer of nutrients from the plant to the seed could lead to increased crop yields and improve food security. Scientists from Oxford University and the University of Warwick, in collaboration with the industry have identified the gene, called Meg1. They report their findings, which they believe could help to increase global food production,...
11:23 AM, Jan 17, 2012
London: A Sikh lecturer at Oxford University was arrested and later on released on bail after his colleague's body was found at his house. Interestingly, the victim's family has refused to believe it's a case of murder saying the two men had been friends for 30 years. Apparently, Devinder Sevia and his colleague Professor Rolling had gone out for a drink. When they returned, there was some sort of an...
08:37 AM, Jan 14, 2012
London: Devinder Sivia, an NRI Mathematics lecturer at the University of Oxford, was arrested on Thursday night for the death of fellow academic Prof Steve Rawlings, an astrophysicist, in a case that has shocked the academic community in the ancient seat of learning. The body of Rawlings, 50, was found at the Oxfordshire home of Sivia, 49, in Southmoor late on Wednesday night. The British police believe that the pair...
04:41 AM, Jan 13, 2012
London: Not a single Indian university, not even the celebrated IITs and IIMs figure in the latest ranking of the world's top 200 universities, with American varsities dominating the list. US institutions have grabbed seven spots in the top 10 despite President Barack Obama warning American students of stiff competition from pupils in India and China. Three British universities, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London, continue to make the cut...
06:56 PM, Oct 06, 2011
New Delhi: Quercus, a young, vibrant, internationally successful and award-winning publisher of fiction, non-fiction and children's books.has acquired two books by debut author Prajwal Parajuly. Jon Riley, editor-in-chief, bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) for 'The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories' and 'Land Where I Flee', a novel, for a respectable five-figure sum from Susan Yearwood at the Susan Yearwood Literary Agency. 'The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories', which chronicles the lives of...
07:02 PM, Oct 05, 2011
London: Now checking if a document is fake or real has become easier with a new scanner, which can even analyse ancient scrolls. "Using the Oxford scanner will be like moving from using a dark room to using a modern digital camera. We can use it to detect what is currently invisible and make it visible," said Paul Westwood, managing director of Forensic Document Services, a forensic document company. Oxford...
03:27 PM, Oct 03, 2011
London: Sexting has just got the official sanction. And joining it in the dictionary is woot - a word that, for the uninitiated, means an electronic commuication to express enthusiasm or triumph. The latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary also contains words like retweet, which means to forward a message on Twitter, reported Daily Telegraph. Then there is jeggings, which is a cross between leggings and jean. There's...
12:11 PM, Aug 19, 2011
Oxford: The University of Oxford has had close links with India for centuries, but for the first time the ancient seat of learning will celebrate an 'Oxford-India Day' tomorrow by bringing together scholars and a select group of Indian business, academic and policy leaders. Oxford - better known by poet Matthew Arnold's description as a 'city of dreaming spires' - has been home to thousands of Indian students since the...
05:47 PM, Jun 16, 2011
London: An Oxford academic has found a 'tantalising' link between Shakespeare's tragic heroine Ophelia and a real-life girl who died at the age of two in 1569, when the Bard would have been around five years old. Admitting his discovery could be pure coincidence, Steven Gunn of the university's Faculty of History said he had unearthed records of the death of a Jane Shaxspere some 20 miles from Stratford-Upon-Avon, where...
10:49 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Oxford: The chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Chris Patten, wants India's Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speaking at the launch event of the Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professorship of Business and Development at the Said Business School on Friday evening, Patten said he had "nothing against Christine Lagarde" the French finance minister currently in the...
11:17 AM, Jun 04, 2011
New Delhi: Paintings by MF Husain and SH Raza among other modern and contemporary artists figure among the highlights of Indian art in two upcoming summer sales abroad. "The Sixth Seal" by Husain estimated at 500,000 pounds and exhibited at Oxford's Museum of Modern Art's 'India: Myth and Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian Art' in 1982, is up for bidding at Sotheby's South Asian modern and contemporary art sale scheduled...
12:56 PM, May 25, 2011
Oxford: Indian film icon Amitabh Bachchan played many characters from William Shakespeare's plays over the years, but when he was shown the First Folio of the plays dated 1623 at the ancient Bodleian Library, he was awestruck and rendered almost speechless. "It's incredible," he simply said, feelingly moving his hand over the pages containing dialogues he had delivered in several stage performances during his career spanning over four decades. Bachchan...
11:51 AM, May 18, 2011
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