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
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, better known as Prince William and Kate Middleton are celebrating their first wedding anniversary on Sunday. ...
10:04 PM, Apr 29, 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
The Duchess of Cambridge has been crowned the beauty icon of 2011. She beat her own fashion icon Angelina Jolie, who is at number 18, to snag the top spot. ...
06:05 PM, Jan 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
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
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: The plight of Binayak Sen, the social activist slapped with controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the problems faced by India's adivasis, Cambridge University researchers studying his case have said. A study on the case of the Indian public health expert, recently bailed from prison, by Department of Sociology Jonathan Kennedy and Lawrence King researchers has been published in the latest edition of Social Science and Medicine. They argue...
05:52 PM, May 25, 2011
London: Ahead of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, Buckingham Palace on Friday announced that the two will be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after the ceremonies are over. Queen Elizabeth conferred the Dukedom on Prince William of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus. Prince William, 28, thus becomes His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton,...
01:24 PM, Apr 29, 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...
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The univ has written a letter clearing the air over his qualifications. ...
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The scholarship programme has been set up exclusively for Indian students. ...
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