Dr M S Swaminathan, who made India self-sufficient in food, passes away

M S Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who bet on sustainable farming passed away in Chennai on Thursday. He was 98 and is survived by three......

Biden appoints 2 Indian-Americans to advisory panel for trade policy

US President Joe Biden on Friday named two Indian-Americans -- Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, and Manish Bapna, CEO of the Natural Resources Defence Council -- to the advisory committee for trade......

Biden's point person on Russian sanctions to visit India

Top Indian-American United States advisor and a key architect of Washington's punitive economic sanctions against Moscow, Daleep Singh, will visit India on March 30 and 31 to discuss the......

'We started as a democracy, but have regressed to a banana republic'

'Governments, democratically elected governments, are custodians for a short- specified time.''Parents don't let baby sitters decide the course of their child's future.' IMAGE: An aerial view of......

How 4-5% of India's GDP is wiped away every year

Corrosion is a big menace for anything with steel application from rebars in construction, oil and water pipelines, railway track, power distribution poles to automobiles, says Kunal Bose. IMAGE:......

Why Indian IT is staring at an uncertain future

NITI Aayog recommendations cite the need for greater industry-academia collaboration to meet skill demand There will be a huge shortage of skills in emerging technologies among our information......

All about the mystery of job creation

The processes that create a seven per cent-plus GDP growth rate without a similar growth in jobs are far from fully understood, says Ajit Balakrishnan.    No topic engages the attention......

'India needs out-of-the-box thinkers'

'Every educational institution should have incubating centres so that students will get exposed to entrepreneurship early.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of the Start-Up India,......

What you didn't know about SRK

There's no denying that Shah Rukh Khan is truly the King of Bollywood. But it's surprising that even though we know so much about this star, there is a lot more we don't know. For example, did you......

Creating Champions

Reckon India does not have what it takes to produce a Wimbledon winner, an Olympic champion?The Brandenton, Florida-based IMG Academies, arguably the best-known multi-sport training facility in the......