'It was not surprising that joining the armed forces was one of the priority professions that the students strived for. Probably, the training in school helped adjusting to the regimentalised life of the fauj.'
Newly minted American engineers are going into finance because tech jobs have been offshored.
Thanks to the astronaut, every year two students from her alma mater, the Tagore Baal Niketan school, will visit the NASA headquarters.
He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
'You're going to need talent, skill, and imagination and vision, but more than anything else, you're going to need the ability to communicate authentically, to speak so that you inspire the people around you and to listen, so that you continue to learn each and every day on the job.' Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, one of Silicon Valley's inspiring figures, delivered this inspiring speech at her alma mater, the Harvard Business School, last week.
The programme will cover India in terms of politics, technology, communication, culture and religion.
The Hindutva brigade's silence on the rape may possibly be explained that this incident is an intra-Hindu affair for them. What is even more intriguing is that vocal gender activists have preferred to almost ignore the incident. Why? Is it because homosexual rape does not involve the woman either as victim or as aggressor, asks Mohammad Sajjad.
Mohammad Sajjad salutes the memory of Mushirul Hasan -- historian, thinker, academic, institution builder, -- who passed into the ages this week.
'The majority community needs to accept that the Indian Muslim is peace loving, not communal and treat them accordingly.'
'The spread of barbarity in Muzaffarnagar's villages makes administrative complicity so very evident that your government is rightly alleged to be imitating what the Modi-led administration did in Gujarat in 2002,' Mohammad Sajjad tells UP Minister Azam Khan.
Dr Navin Shah, erstwhile president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, has set up an Indo-US Physicians Exchange Programme that envisages voluntary mutual exchanges between American and Indian physicians to help improve medical education and health care in India. The programme has been set up with the support of the United States Department of State, the World Health Organisation's Global Health Workforce Alliance.
Vir Das' commencement address to graduates of Knox College is the best advice you'll read today.
Kota, Rajasthan, is both a beacon for the educationally deprived and a cynical place in which 16-year-olds live in Dickensian boarding houses, while teachers drive Audis.
Raj Soin sold his business, in a transaction valued at $450 million, and decided to build a non-profit hospital in rural Haryana in the memory of his father. Soin, who co-heads the Soin Foundation with wife Indu, funded the 55-bed, multi-specialty hospital in Banchari.
On his joining politics, he had said, "We will see, I don't know. I would like to help the people of Pakistan, so I will decide when I finish my studies." "I can either enter politics, or I can enter another career that would benefit the people," Bilawal said when he was 15.
Sekhar Kammula's Happy Days bring back memories of college life. This clean entertainer has good characterisation and natural performances by the debutantes and others.
50 years ago, on April 1, 1968, Tata Consultancy Services -- now India's leading IT company -- was born. The foundation for TCS was laid by Faqir Chand Kohli whose life touched directly or indirectly many, many, Indians, says Shivanand Kanavi.
Pankhuri Gidwani took a year's break to focus on the pageant, but scored brilliantly in her CBSE Class 12 exams this year.
Even as plans to redevelop Dharavi continue to gather dust in government files, its young residents have chalked their own course and chosen to fly high. Hepzi Anthony recounts a few inspiring tales.
The board of directors of the Export-Import Bank, the official export-credit agency of the United States, has appointed Indian American entrepreneur and investor Frank F Islam, of McLean, Virginia, as a member of the Bank's Advisory Committee for 2010 to provide expert guidance of small business.
The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank, the official export-credit agency of the United States, has appointed Indian American entrepreneur and investor Frank F Islam, of McLean, Virginia, as a member of the Bank's Advisory Committee for 2010 to provide expert guidance of small business.
Two IIT-B grads cracked the cab aggregator code, tasted success & failure.
'As engineers, as alumni and as Indians, we should be concerned about today's leadership that is making tomorrow's leaders at our IITs,' says Air Marshal P V Athawale PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd).
Director Karan Johar makes the film look good!
BJP-supported students' union, aided by a friendly government, is aggressively settling historical scores with Leftist students' organisations.
Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg spoke about success, surviving loss and failure to the graduating class of 2016 at UC Berkeley.
Find out how Lavanya Ashok, vice president and executive director private equity at Goldman Sachs is inspiring other women to follow their dreams too.
A delegation of Latin American ambassadors, which visited Thiruvananthapuram when Tharoor was the MoS, were all praise for him for the attention he gave them, particularly to facilitate their visit to his own constituency. Now, with only one MoS in the ministry, the ambassadors from Africa, Latin America and the Gulf have no chance of meeting the MoS. By his exit, Tharoor has left a wide gulf in the ministry
What distinguished Shashi from the other senior Indians in the UN Secretariat even in the early years of his career was that he was not paranoid about asserting his international personality to the point of erasing his Indian identity
With lines like "He was very diplomatic", "I don't think he got my question right," the students let it be known who they thought came out trumps.
'We saw how vigorous democracy was when it dislodged authoritarianism under Indira Gandhi. We saw its vigour again when it voted Mr Modi out of humble origins as prime minister. It was Nehru who laid that foundation for India and what is worrying today is Modi's rather imperial style of functioning,' says writer Nayantara Sahgal.
'While it is wonderful to have events like the upcoming PanIIT 2006 in Mumbai, the focus at these events should be less on rah-rah backslapping and more on identifying the shortcomings of the IITs and the Indian educational system.'
In an interview with rediff.com Kamal Mansharamani of AlmaMate advices graduates on their career growth, what it takes to be a leader and how to cope with job lay offs.
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