Cambridge: South Korean rapper PSY was welcomed to Harvard University on Thursday night by hundreds of screaming and shouting students and fans, as the 'Gangnam Style' star participated in a conversation inside an ornate church dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in World War I.
PSY began addressing students and faculty by noting that his presence at the Ivy League school "is so weird."
He recalled spending four years studying management at Boston University while marveling at Harvard from afar. He joked about his academic performance while at school in Boston, saying he was known by a nickname of WWF - which, he said, stands for withdrawal, withdrawal, failure.
The pop star, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, also joked that he's heard that he is the first person to make a speech at Harvard without a written script....
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12:14 PM, May 13, 2013
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...
05:55 PM, May 09, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh minister Shivpal Singh Yadav's letter to US President Barack Obama on cabinet colleague Azam Khan being detained at Boston airport has triggered a controversy with opposition parties and civil society activists terming it objectionable. In a petition sent to Governor BL Joshi, activist Urvashi Sharma termed the letter written by the Public Works Department (PWD) minister as unconstitutional and against diplomatic norms under which external affairs is...
05:58 PM, May 01, 2013
Lucknow: Amid criticism that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav should not have cancelled his lecture at the Harvard Business School to protest "extended frisking" of Urban Development Minister Azam Khan at a Boston airport, his Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday said the stand was "correct, justified and in line with socialist ethos". In a statement released in Lucknow, Prisons Minister and party spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary said that the chief...
04:41 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Boston: Miffed with the alleged detention of his cabinet minister Azam Khan at the Boston airport, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav cancelled a reception to be hosted in his honour by New York Consul General Dnyaneshwar Mulay on Saturday besides boycotting the Harvard lecture. A communique from the Consulate General of India in New York merely stated "that due to unavoidable circumstances, the reception scheduled to be held in...
08:55 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohammad Azam Khan has decided to cut short his US trip after his "long and humiliating frisking" at the Logan airport in Boston, an official said in Lucknow. In a statement issued by his personal assistant Muktinath Jha late Thursday, the Minister alleged that on the pretext of frisking him homeland security officials humiliated him, and that he was targeted because he is a Muslim. Although...
10:55 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday left for the United States to deliver a lecture at Harvard Business School. Akhilesh will address students on the successful hosting of Maha Kumbh 2013. Akhilesh is expected to talk about the administrative challenges faced in hosting the 55-day long event. The successful hosting of Maha Kumbh 2013 has earned UP CM Akhilesh an invite from Harvard University to speak...
10:10 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Attari: The novel concept of promoting friendship through food at 'Sarhad', a restaurant serving the best of cuisines from both sides of Punjab, has attracted attention of Harvard Business School. 'Sarhad', which promotes cultural and culinary heritage of pre-partition Punjab, was picked up as a mini project for Digital Marketing Strategy by Harvard's MBA class of 2013. The restaurant is situated exactly between Amritsar and Lahore and is 1.5 km...
10:15 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New York: When Thomas Herndon, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's doctoral program in economics, spotted possible errors made by two eminent Harvard economists in an influential research paper, he called his girlfriend over for a second look. As they poured over the spreadsheets Herndon had requested from Harvard's Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, which formed the basis for a widely quoted 2010 study, they spotted what they...
01:31 PM, Apr 18, 2013
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...
12:29 PM, Apr 08, 2013
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...
05:42 PM, Apr 07, 2013
After Uttar Pradesh played host to the world's largest religious congregation during Mahakumbh in Allahabad, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Minister Mohammad Azam Khan have been invited by the Harvard University to share the story of organising the 55-day event. ...
04:17 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Oprah Winfrey is headed to Harvard to deliver the commencement address. The school announced the news on the Harvard Gazette Website. Oprah's speech on May 30 will mark the 362nd graduation ceremony at the Ivy League Institution. ...
07:30 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will deliver this year's graduation address at Harvard University. ...
11:23 AM, Mar 05, 2013
As part of its centennial celebrations, Harvard University Press intends to make its titles accessible within the Indian market and publish some of the best ideas and scholarship active in the country. "Our specific mission is to publish and disseminate the very best ideas and scholarship from all over the world to the world's readers. We intend to make HUP titles accessible within the Indian market, and to publish some...
02:35 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday hit back at Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai after he blamed the government of crony capitalism during a speech at Harvard. Reacting to Rai's speech, Digvijaya said, "If not an accountant, what does he want to be? The Prime Minister? The Constitution has defined the role of the CAG. How will a democracy function if judiciary does the job of the...
02:51 PM, Feb 08, 2013
In a hard-hitting speech, the Comptroller and Auditor General, Vinod Rai, has defended his role. Rai has said that the role of the public auditor cannot be confined only to placing reports in Parliament. During a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School of government, Rai spoke on the various scams in the government. ...
11:30 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Time to find out all that's buzzing in B-wood and from what we hear there are some pretty strange things happening; Aamir Khan was spotted wearing a skirt and Shah Rukh Khan just might be heading to Harvard! Here's more on all that. ...
05:59 PM, Feb 06, 2013
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. ...
05:33 PM, Feb 02, 2013
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. ...
02:55 PM, Jan 20, 2013
