AMU's Governance Structure Is Democratic, Not Divine

These self-appointed well-wishers of AMU are basically for the control or police model of university governance.They have no faith whatsoever in the democratic functioning of the universities,......

Will General Munir Take On Imran Khan?

If General Asim Munir, Pakistan's new army chief, wants to help defuse the current polarised atmosphere and shepherd civilian politicians towards negotiations on an acceptable date for elections,......

'I don't want to live, but I have no option'

'How will they give me permission to die when there are many others in conditions worse than mine?' IMAGE: Seema Sood. All photographs: Neeta Kolhatkar   She was still a teenager, on the cusp......

Cong's Anand Sharma denies meeting Nadda, says would do so openly

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma scotched speculation about his meeting with Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda on Thursday, saying if he had to, he would do so openly as they both......

Nitin Nohria to step down as Harvard Business School dean

Harvard Business School's dean Nitin Nohria will step down from his post in June 2020, ten years after he became the first Indian-origin academician to helm the business school in the prestigious......

Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria to step down in June 2020

Nitin Nohria, who had joined the Business School's faculty in 1988 after receiving his PhD from MIT, said the HBS changed the arc of his life. In his message to faculty, staff, students and alumni,......

Abhijit Banerjee, 2nd Presidency alumni to win Nobel in Economics

Amartya Sen was the other Presidency alumni to win the Economics Nobel. Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize along with two others - his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on Monday "for......

The case for boomerang hires

A growing number of firms are putting in formal policy frameworks to tap into company alumni and facilitate the return of former employees, discovers Sangeeta Tanwar. IMAGE: Increasingly,......

'Yes, I have done adult films. But nobody is talking about my good films'

'I defy all the controversy. For me, it is meaningless. They say the students are unhappy that I have been appointed as the head of FTII. They have not seen my work so how can they be unhappy?'......

Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods to down shutters?

In the next few weeks, the Bombay High Court will hear Whistling Wood's petition to review its 2011 directive to vacate the land it occupies in Film City, Mumbai.Ketan Rana's first film, Dekh Le, a......

NFL: Washington Redskins to consider changing name of team

IMAGE: The team that became the Washington Redskins was founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves. They changed their name to the Redskins the following year and moved to Washington, DC, in 1937.......

Is India-born Gulati in line for BIG FIFA post?

Infantino begins search for non-European chief executive IMAGE: President of the United States Soccer Federation Sunil Gulati,. Photograph: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images The victory celebration......