Indian-American Jay Bhattacharya to be Trump's health agency head

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American scientist Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the country's top health research and funding......

'US should not be part of Trudeau's shameless, cynical action'

A US expert has termed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's claim of a "potential link" between Indian government agents and the killing of a Khalistani leader a "shameless and cynical action"......

Indians see China, not Pak as their greatest threat: US Congressman

Influential Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna has said that Indians now see China as their greatest military threat and not Pakistan, and emphasised the need to have constructive re-balancing......

There is a political effort to depict our govt in a certain way: Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that there is "a political effort" to depict the current government in India in a certain way and there is a difference between the political imagery......

Economist Milton Friedman dead

Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics passed away on Thursday. The 94-year-old economist was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from......

'Social spending plan not a good idea'

The new Indian government's plan to spend huge money on social programmes will not augur well for the Indian economy, according to Robert J Barro, Paul M Warburg professor of economics, Harvard......

Economic ties with China? Modi must move closer with caution

The current moment presents the Modi government with an opportunity to take advantage, but very carefully, of Beijing's inclination to offer economic incentives, notes Nitin Pai. Ahead of Xi......

Bill Gates and his silver bullet

Back in 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had a big idea about how to fix the problems of American education. Break up large high schools and turn them into small schools and "small......