Harvard, MIT sue Trump administration over student visa row

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have filed a lawsuit against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's latest rule that bars international students from staying in......

Indian-American appointed as US research head

Indian-American academician Subra Suresh has been confirmed 'unanimously' by the US Senate to be the next director of the $7.4 billion National Science Foundation for a six-year term. President......

Why a second term for Modi seems IFFY

'Poor home work, and a subsequent loss of nerve.''This sums up the Modi government's current travails, the stall in key sectors, fading momentum, irritability,' points out Shekhar......

After Lehman Brothers and StanChart, it's DMK time!

Why is an NRI banker with an MBA from MIT canvassing votes in Madurai?Saisuresh Sivasawamy/Rediff.com A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports. IMAGE: Palanivel Thiagarajan has a ready smile, and......

TCS in alliance with MIT Sloan

Leading software company Tata Consultancy Services has announced an alliance with the MIT Sloan Centre for Information Systems Research, strengthening ties with the world's leading academic......

It's time for brain gain, say Indian scientists in US

Managed and operated by volunteers from Boston, YIM is a non-for-profit organisation founded by MIT/Harvard Indian-origin scientists and entrepreneurs in 2009. About 50 young Indian scientists have......

The Great War, online

The telecom, the internet, the media industry worldwide is currently organised not that differently from 1914 Europe, says Ajit Balakrishnan. It is possible that we will all look back a year from......

Kaushik Basu tipped for CEA's post

Kaushik Basu, the C Marks Professor of International Studies, professor of economics, and director of the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell, has been asked informally if he would consider......