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US' Hopkins University invites UP minister for lecture

Lucknow: After Harvard University's invitation to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, his uncle and senior Cabinet Minister Shivpal Yadav has been invited by John Hopkins University, US, to deliver a lecture on flood control, official sources said here.

"Yadav, who besides others holds portfolio of Irrigation Department has been invited by Hopkins University to deliver lecture on flood control and expediting water sector restructuring project in Uttar Pradesh," a senior official said. The minister has, however, not given any confirmation about accepting the invitation.



Akhilesh Yadav was invited to deliver a lecture at Harvard University in Boston in April on the recent Mahakumbh Mela at Allahabad....more    

'Tired' Ekta Kapoor set to study at Harvard University

Mumbai: TV and film producer Ekta Kapoor, who has back-to-back projects -- 'Ek Thi Daayan', 'Shootout At Wadala', and 'Shaadi Ke Side Effects' -- lined up for release, is tired and says that she will take a break to attend a summer entrepreneur course at the Harvard University. "I am planning to take a break. I am tired. I take each day as it comes. Now completely busy with the...  

Ekta Kapoor all set to study at Harvard University

Mumbai: TV and film producer Ekta Kapoor, who has back-to-back projects -- 'Ek Thi Daayan', 'Shootout At Wadala', and 'Shaadi Ke Side Effects' lined up for release, is tired and says that she will take a break to attend a summer entrepreneur course at the Harvard University. "I am planning to take a break. I am tired. I take each day as it comes. Now completely busy with the promotions...  

Oprah to deliver commencement address at Harvard

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will deliver this year's graduation address at Harvard University. ...  

Cheating scandal: Harvard forces 60 students to withdraw

Harvard University said on Friday it issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students who were forced to withdraw from school for a period of time in a cheating scandal that involved the final exam in a class on Congress, drawing criticism from a high-profile alumnus. The school implicated as many as 125 students in the scandal when officials first addressed the issue in 2012. ...  

Maha Kumbh Mela now a Harvard case study

The Maha Kumbh Mela, considered the largest public gathering in the world, will be the subject of a case study at Harvard University, which will study the logistics and economics behind it and the "pop-up mega-city" that comes to life in Allahabad during the religious event. ...  

2 Indians among Forbes' top 15 education innovators list

New York: Indian-origin CEO of Datawind, the maker of India's low-cost tablet Aakash, Suneet Singh Tuli and Massachusettes Institute of Technology professor Anant Agarwal have been named by Forbes magazine among the 15 "classroom revolutionaries" who are using innovative technologies to reinvent education for students and teachers globally. The Forbes list names 15 education innovators who are "harnessing a slew of disruptive technologies to change everything from the way we...  

Harvard doctor 'visited' heaven while in coma

Washington: In a bizarre claim, a Harvard neurosurgeon has said that he visited heaven when he slipped into a coma after contracting a rare disease. In his new book, 'Proof of Heaven', Dr Eben Alexander says he took a journey to the afterlife when he slipped into a coma in 2008 after suffering from a rare bacterial meningitis. Alexander, who has taught at Harvard Medical School and other universities, spent...  

Harvard in mass cheating controversy, orders probe

Harvard officials are investigating claims that nearly half the students in one undergraduate class may have cheated on their final examination. ...

Mass cheating probe on in Harvard University

Cambridge: Harvard University will consider instituting an honour code as it investigates whether at least 125 undergraduates cheated by working together on a take-home exam in the spring. Officials said they intend to start broad conversations about academic honesty, including why it is vital to intellectual inquiry, in the wake of what is believed to be the largest such episode in recent school history. "We really think we need to...  

MIT, Harvard link up with free online courses

Boston: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are teaming up on an initiative called edX only five months after MIT rolled out MITx, its online learning system which allows students to earn certificates for completing course work from...  

Harvard meet on where India heads in next decade

Boston: International leaders from government, business, non-profit, media and entertainment sectors are meeting in Boston over the weekend to discuss where India stands currently and where it is headed over the next decade. The discussions are part of the 9th Harvard India Conference with the theme of India: The Next Frontier, co-hosted by Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government from March 24-25 at Cambridge, Massachussetts and Boston....  

Indian-American student triggers Harvard probe

Washington: A complaint from an Indian-American student who was near the top of his high school class but was rejected by both Harvard and Princeton universities has triggered an investigation by the US Education Department. The unnamed Indian-American student in California complained that the two universities discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions, according to a media Bloomberg report. According to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights the complaint was...  

Indian appointed adviser to Harvard President

New York: Indian academician Krishna Palepu has been appointed as senior adviser to President of Harvard University to help guide the prestigious institution's international strategy. Harvard President Drew Faust announced that Palepu, who has taught at the Harvard Business School (HBS) for almost three decades, will assume his new position of senior adviser for global strategy immediately. Professor of business administration and senior associate dean for international development at HBS,...  

Swamy's courses removal part of norm: Harvard

New York: A day after Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy said Harvard University should have approached him first before deciding on removing his courses, the American institution said it was a norm for the faculty to annually "amend" and vote upon the course list for its summer school sessions. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences had voted earlier this week to remove two economics courses that Swamy taught at the...  

Harvard removes courses taught by Swamy

New York: The Harvard University has removed economics courses taught by Janta Party leader Subramanian Swamy. The decision was taken following a heated debate after two Indian students on campus submitted a petition with 450 signatures against him. The uproar is over an op-ed article Swamy wrote in the DNA newspaper in July calling for the disfranchisement of non-Hindus who do not acknowledge Hindu ancestry and a ban on conversion...  

In developing world, poor still means thin: Study

New York: 'First world' health problems such as obesity and heart disease may be gaining ground in developing nations, but they are mostly afflicting the rich and middle class while poor people remain undernourished and underweight, a study said. Researchers who looked at more than 500,000 women from 37 mid- and low-income nations in Asia, Africa and South America found that there was a clear divide between the better-off and...  

Harvard invite for Mamata Banerjee

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...  

Harvard most discussed university on Web: survey

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...  

Indian Muslims have Hindu ancestry: Swamy

Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. In a recent article in DNA Subramanian Swamy has said that Indian Muslims must either proudly accept and acknowledge their Hindu ancestors and legacy or be disenfranchised. To many that feels like hateful, communal prejudice. But how does Doctor Swamy defend himself. That is the key issue I should put today to Subramanian Swamy himself. Doctor Swamy you are a Harvard professor,...