I hope Rajini's colour is not saffron: Haasan at Harvard University

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has made it clear that any political alliance with superstar Rajinikanth is unlikely if his colour is 'saffron', in an apparent reference to the......

India should spend $1 bn annually to train school teachers: Narayana Murthy

Software icon NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday called for spending $1 billion a year to train school teachers by 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India......

Brahma Chellaney wins Asia Society award

India's leading strategic thinker and analyst, Brahma Chellaney has won the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his recently published book Water: Asia's New Battleground. Chellaney......

Making Lord Krishna and Kautilya relevant today

Lord Krishna, Alexander The Great and Kautilya play stellar parts in Amartya Sen's discussion with Arthur J Pais. A fascinating conversation with the Nobel LaureateOver the last five decades, Nobel......

SPI Tech buys Indian co, to hire 1000

Manila-based content outsourcing company SPI Technologies Inc has acquired KG Information Services and Technologies's medical transcription business for an undisclosed amount and plans to double......

'Wish prices were kept low for the common man'

For Ashok Upadhyay, a taxi driver from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, who makes his living in Mumbai, there are concerns more pressing than the Budget. Namely, he says, prices for even basic......

RSS-linked outfit wants "Harvard" mindset out of government

'These Harvard University-educated people, with knowledge limited to the small states there, apply it in a huge country like India, which is not practical at all.' The RSS-linked Bharatiya Mazdoor......

IIM-A joins Harvard forum

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has strengthened its international presence by linking up with the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations.HPAIR is Harvard University's......

More Angels Than Demons

Robert Langdon is back, in the first major Hollywood summer release to grace our shores since the designer adrenaline of Fast & Furious all those many weeks ago. This time around he is......

Medical experts want Rio Olympics delayed or moved due to Zika

IMAGE: A municipal worker stands next to a banner that reads, "Rio Carnival 2016" before spraying insecticide to prevent the spread of Zika's vector. Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters More than......

What will happen to brand Sharapova now?

Sharapova fallout shows sponsors have no tolerance for banned drugs IMAGE: Maria Sharapova. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images. In the day following Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova's......