Research and teaching have remained Professor Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao's first priority and first love, and that is what sets him apart, says Dinesh C Sharma
Indian Institute of Technology graduates, numbering an estimated 40,000 in the US, plan to hold a Global IIT Alumni Conference from May 20-22 in Washington
Dr Venkatram Ramaswamy, Hallman Fellow of Electronic Business and Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, is in India to speak at Guruspeak, an annual event organized by IIM-Calcutta.
In the second part of this series Studying in Denmark, Pushpinder Bhatia tells about higher education & English courses offered in Denmark.
Ram Mynampati, the interim chief executive of the beleaguered Satyam Computer Services, wrote an impassioned letter to all the employees to the company, asking them to stand together in these turbulent times.
Siemens, the global leader in electrical and electronics engineering, inaugurated its new research centre, Siemens Corporate Technology India in Bangalore.
Information technology employees and fresh graduates in Kolkata have started to see salary cuts and employee lay offs.
US technological superiority, long taken for granted, may be slipping and 'the most serious threat' is coming from Asian countries like India, China, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, a media report says.\n\n\n\n
The software company has conducted 'mass recruitment' of entry level engineers from top Malaysian universities.
Premier Li Keqiang highlighted his government's performance in the last one year and the challenges ahead in various fields. Compared to other reports by his predecessors, Li spoke more frankly about the mounting challenges faced by the country. Srikanth Kondapalli on the two recent Chinese parliament sessions.
The New York Times said US officials were concerned that Al Qaeda has enough information to conduct strikes in New York City, Washington, DC and Newark.
According to a CLSA Asia Pacific Markets report, the e-learning market is projected to grow to around Rs 1,100 crore (Rs 11 billion) by 2012 from 145 crore (Rs 1.45 billion) currently. Besides, online modules cost one-tenth that of a regular course. The worldwide market for online tutoring is estimated to be in the region of Rs 46,800 crore (Rs 486 billion). India now earns around Rs 60 crore per year from online tutoring or 10 per cent of the total market share.
Start-up entrepreneur Aashish Gupta who founded YellowLeg.com that sells only travel books to "discerning traveller" talks about life as a start-up and challenges he faced.
A new software system, which enables mobile phone users to obtain location-specific, real-time information, either actively or passively, from other users across the world has been developed by a team led by an Indian-American professor at Duke University.
How billionaires from India and Taiwan saw a need, followed through and hit the jackpot.
Indian students are worried that the economy's current instability may adversely affect their job prospects, according to a study by global management consultancy Accenture.
The global economic crisis of 2008-09 has triggered much soul searching in the economics profession. How come only a few economists saw it coming? Was it because the profession was blind to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy, as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman put it?
The Paul Foundation Scholarships 2004 & PG Programmes through Distance Education.
Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year.
In an online chat, Neeraj Saxena, CEO, Avanse Education Loans answered reader queries on how to pick the right international programme.
Five inspiring women who travelled thousands of miles to Hyderabad recently to grow their business and skills share their tales of global entrepreneurship. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listened in.
Meet Mona Patel, one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes of the Year.
Zoho founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu noticed that there was not much of a correlation between an employee's academic credentials and his performance at work.
BusinessWeek.com's annual competition finds a thriving startup culture in the region.
Education as a sector is rising up on the investment charts, at a slow but sure pace. For investors, researching on this sector is an up-hill task.
Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, two PhD students from India at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, were found murdered at their apartment on December 13.
Meet Sabriye Tenberken, a German woman who is changing lives in India.
After proving its mettle in areas like steel, automotive and IT services on the global arena, corporate behemoth Tata group has now developed the world's fourth fastest supercomputer that can do 117.9 trillion calculations per second. The supercomputer "EKA", which means number one in Sanskrit, was named Asia's fastest and the world's fourth fastest in the Top 500 Supercomputer list announced at an International Conference for High Performance Computing at Reno California.
The Tamil Nadu government is proposing a nanotechnology park, similar to the highly successful Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. The park, likely to come up near Chennai, will focus on hi-tech manufacturing in semiconductor foundries, chip assembly and testing, optoelectronics, solar cell technologies and nanotechnology.
The Live Documents service offered by the Bhatia-promoted InstaColl is already a big success in India, especially among the education fraternity.
In another five years, Reddy plans to make SurfGold, Asia's largest loyalty CRM service provider
A cow that speaks, a question on patriarchy and the story of a 17th-century poet - Sanskrit filmmakers are finding new ways to revive the 'dying' language.
Hyderabad-based Pi Datacenters wants to be the first destination of choice for enterprises in data and cloud services.
EdUK advisors from the British Council hosted a chat with readers on August 10 about studying in the UK. The transcript.
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