An Indian-American post-colonial theorist, who describes herself as a 'para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher,' has been appointed to the highest faculty rank at Columbia University, the school announced on Friday.
Buried in a Kolkata cemetery is an Englishman who served India well during her struggle for freedom. Charles Freer Andrews was a benevolent force that neither the Indians, nor the British could ignore.
Folate is one of the most vital nutrients for the human body's growth and development, which is why folate-rich diets are typically suggested for women planning a pregnancy or who are pregnant.
Samuel Stokes made India his home and participated in the freedom struggle. He was the only American to be imprisoned for sedition; the British CID maintained a special file on him.
According to Andrew Coates of the Mullard Space Science Lab, the impactors would represent the first time there had been a detailed study of the Moon's sub-surface.
'India is no longer the India of the '70s and the '80s.' 'It's a large country with the fastest growing economy.' 'In working with India, you just can't go and humiliate the nation publicly.' USIBC President Mukesh Aghi tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com about how he advises American companies to do business with India, what he thinks of Modi's government and the way forward for the India-US relationship.
A University of Washington economic geologist has said that the world is not running out of oil or other mineral resources as is widely believed.
Muhammad Yunus is the 66-year-old Bangladeshi behind the Grameen Movement micro-banking system.
The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Edmund S. Phelps of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday.
For at least 13 years, big and small investors alike turned over their money to Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, two New York money managers, in the belief that an "enhanced equity index" strategy was reaping them profits.
The recall of faulty batteries present in more than 4 million Dell notebooks is turning out to be as famous as the global PC giant itself on the world wide Web.\n\n
Director Marc Webb's strength as a director lies in just how smoothly he flips genres, switching between gears with immaculate ease.
The next great mega-litigation could rival the $12 billion spent cleaning up Enron.
Dr Dhar has been granted bail but has been banned from examining patients on her own.
The two threw more than 360,000 letters and parcels into a dumping ground and earned over one million pounds each by saving the costs of delivering them.
"The Australian government fully appreciates how central India is to our future," Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in a speech at the University of Western Australia, his alma mater, while making a strong push for closer ties in social, economic and defence sectors.
Australia's newspapers were unanimous in demanding changes be made after Australia ended their 16-year hold on the Ashes
Born in Hamilton, Canada, Bhargava spent most of his early years in Long Island, New York. He received his AB in mathematics summa cum laude (with highest honours) from Harvard in 1996 and his PhD from Princeton in 2001. After holding visiting positions at MSRI, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Harvard University, he joined the faculty at Princeton as professor of mathematics in 2003. He was also named the Clay Mathematics Institute's first Five-Year Long-Term Prize Fell
The talented actress will play a depressed, self-harming wife in Life Isn't All Ha Ha, Hee Hee.
Aseem Chhabra spots 10 must-see movies at the Berlin Film Festival.
The world's No. 1 golfer, Tiger Woods, who had withdrawn from the game after details of his adulterous affairs surfaced late last year, will return to professional golf at the US Masters in Augusta, Georgia, in early April, he said in a statement.
Andrew Veal, 25, was apparently distraught over President George Bush's re-election, said police.
An Australian biomechanics expert says Tendulkar will have to be careful of when he returns to cricket.
Governor Jeb Bush estimated the damage caused by hurricane Charley at over $ 15 billion.
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Investigators found that a company in Pakistan was prepared to sell everything needed to make a nuclear bomb -- plans, equipment and fuel -- for $50 million, a report said.
'So a number of people are drawn in along with members of their friends' circle or their relatives.' 'A number of individuals find that they have more in common with the 'imagined community' that they discover online as opposed to their own physical community and indeed, even the majority Muslim community elsewhere.'
'John Lasseter gave me such good advice. He said the reason why he wanted me to tell the story was because it was about my dad and me. He said if it is a father and son story, it will relate universally.' Star Pixar animator Sanjay Patel tells Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com the back story behind his new film, Sanjay's Super Team, which features Hanuman, Vishnu and Durga as superheroes.
The very, very rich were very, very generous this year.
The South African has been appointed the new fitness trainer of the Indian cricket team.
So far, neither Washington nor Wall Street seems to have fully grasped this political sea-change, or figured how to deal with it.
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