A judge on Tuesday sentenced the star prosecution witness in the trial of convicted Texas financier R Allen Stanford to five years in prison for bilking investors of more than $7 billion in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in US history. James M Davis, who was sentenced in a Houston federal court, was facing up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2009 to three fraud and...
11:48 PM, Jan 22, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on December 28 pitched for improving the standards of higher education by Indian universities and also asked the private players also to contribute their best as there were 'unlimited' demands and 'limited' resources in the sector. "The standards of higher education in India today need improvement. In ancient India, we had universities like Nalanda and Takshashila which had established themselves as international centers of educational excellence where...
04:55 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Washington: Scientists claim to have developed the world's first complete computer model of an organism, which can use computer-aided design for better diagnosis and treatment of diseases. A team of Stanford researchers, including an Indian, used data from more than 900 scientific papers to account for every molecular interaction that takes place in the life cycle of Mycoplasma genitalium, the world's smallest free-living bacterium. The model represents a stepping-stone toward...
11:02 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Stanford: Serena Williams overcame a shaky start and two service breaks to beat lucky loser Coco Vandeweghe 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday for her second straight Bank of the West Classic title. Eight days after winning Wimbledon, Williams saved a set point and won the final four games of the opening set. It was the 43rd WTA Tour championship of Williams' career, tying older sister Venus for the most among active...
08:08 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Stanford: Serena Williams overpowered Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-1, 6-2 in the Bank of the West Classic on Saturday to set up the first all-American WTA final on home soil in eight years. Exactly a week after winning her fifth Wimbledon title, Williams cruised to another victory in 60 minutes. The quick work came despite Williams converting only 38 percent of her first serves. She will go for her second straight...
09:09 AM, Jul 15, 2012
Stanford: Serena Williams has still not kicked post Wimbledon jet lag, but she still managed to beat Chanelle Scheepers 6-4 6-0 in the quarter-finals of the Stanford Classic on Friday. Second seed Mario Bartoli and third seed Dominika Cibulkova, however, did not fare as well with France's Bartoli beaten by Yanina Wickmayer 6-3, 6-2, while Romania's Sorana Cirstea beat Slovakia's Cibulkova 6-7, 6-2, 6-0. Williams, who won her fifth Wimbledon...
11:36 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Stanford: Marion Bartoli fought back from a stuttering start to defeat Mallory Burdette 7-5 6-0 and reach the quarter-finals of the Stanford Classic on Thursday. The second seed was joined in the quarters by No. 3 Dominika Cibulkova, who beat Japan's Erika Sema 6-1 6-3, and ninth seed Sorana Cirstea, who stopped Chinese teenager Zheng Saisai 6-3 6-3. Pole Urszula Radwanska also reached the next round after beating eighth seed...
12:16 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Stanford: Four days after capturing the singles' title at Wimbledon, fourth-ranked and top-seeded Serena Williams beat reigning NCAA champion Nicole Gibbs 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the Bank of the West on Wednesday. Gibbs double-faulted on her first serve and then seemed to regain her composure and played a number of strong points the rest of the way. Williams, who credited her win at Stanford last year as...
09:30 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Stanford, California: US wildcard Nicole Gibbs beat Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Bank of the West Classic on Tuesday to set up a second-round match against Wimbledon champion Serena Williams. Gibbs, a junior at Stanford who won NCAA singles and doubles titles in the spring, is coming off a victory in a $50,000 ITF event in Denver. In other matches, eighth-seeded Marina Erakovic...
11:21 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Stanford, California: Fatigue and a busy schedule are not going to get in the way of Serena Williams returning to the place where she, says Serena, launched her comeback and got the confidence to believe she could win another grand slam. Fresh off her fifth Wimbledon triumph, Williams is eager to defend the Stanford Classic title she won in 2011 that signalled her return after missing nearly a year recovering...
09:20 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Stanford: Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer laboured past Kai-Chen Chang 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 in the first round of the Stanford Classic on Monday but all eyes will be on Wimbledon champion Serena Williams who begins her title defence on Wednesday. Fifth seed Wickmayer, ranked 37 in the world, had to work really hard to remain on course for her first WTA title of the year. Her struggle was almost identical to her...
01:04 PM, Jul 10, 2012
London: Scientists are working with Stephen Hawking to test a groundbreaking device to allow them to 'hack' into the brain of the world-famous British physicist, who has been unable to speak for the last 30 years. 70-year-old Hawking has been working with scientists at Standford University of the US who are developing iBrain - a tool which picks up brain waves and communicates them via a computer, the Daily Mail...
05:39 PM, Jun 25, 2012
"He [Stanford] did revive cricket in the Caribbean, and it's just sad what became of it," the Windies skipper said. ...
10:03 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Houston: Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades. An apology was not one of them. In a defiant, rambling statement that lasted more than 40 minutes, Stanford told the court about the injuries he suffered during a prison fight; criticised...
12:36 PM, Jun 15, 2012
The financier and cricket mogul cheated 30,000 investors out of billions of dollars. ...
11:23 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Dubai: India-born Rohan Sampath knew he would do well in his Grade 12 exams but becoming the ICSE topper worldwide with 99.5 per cent marks was unimaginable. The 17-year-old now looks forward to joining Stanford University and unlike many brought up in Dubai, he really hopes he can return to India some day. "My first reaction was disbelief. I thought it was a typo. I didn't expect it," Rohan, a...
03:36 PM, May 22, 2012
Washington: Five prestigious US universities will create free online courses for students worldwide through a new, interactive education platform dubbed Coursera, the founders announced Wednesday. The two founders, both professors of computer science at Stanford University, also announced that they had received $16 million in financing from two Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Coursera will offer more than three dozen college courses in the coming year through its website at...
07:44 AM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: Former cricketer and financier Allen Stanford was convicted on Tuesday for the biggest investment fraud ever. A whopping sum of $7 billion fraud investment landed Allen Stanford in the Texas court where he was declared found guilty on 13 counts of a 14-count criminal indictment. Having spend 3 years in jail followed by ill health and unfit for trial, Stranford has earlier tried to have his case completely...
08:46 AM, Mar 07, 2012
San Francisco: The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old. A team of doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital determined the girl born nine weeks premature had only hours to live if they did not perform the surgery. Jaya, who was diagnosed in the...
07:49 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Palo Alto: In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history - how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago. "I remember driving down Highway 85," Wozniak says. "We're on the freeway, and Steve mentions, 'I've got a name: Apple Computer.' We kept thinking of other alternatives to that name, and we couldn't think of anything better." Adds...
02:19 PM, Dec 29, 2011
