Obama appoints Indian American to national science board

Dr Sethuraman ‘Panch’ Panchanathan, senior vice president, Office of Knowledge Enter­prise Development, ArizonaStateUniversity, was last week appointed to the United States National......

Indian American heads top US science funding body

Eminent Indian-American scientist Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan on Tuesday officially took charge as Director of National Science Foundation, a day after United States President Donald Trump appointed......

Modi's 2-day K'taka visit from Monday, to attend Yoga Day event in Mysore

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Karnataka from Monday during which he will launch several development projects and also take part in the International Yoga Day on......

Gautam Gandhi wins Fulbright award

Gautam Gandhi's role model is Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh's revolutionary Grameen Bank. Like 2006 Nobel Laureate Yunus, he has gone on to win an award -- in his case the Fulbright for......

Koramangala start-ups break myth of IIT entrepreneur

A survey found that 70 per cent of the start-up founders had experience working at multinational companies before starting on their own. About 84 per cent of startup founders in Koramangala,......

100 years of IISc: Global meet in US

The-Bangalore based Indian Institute of Science (IISc), founded in 1908 by legendary industrialist J N Tata, will be celebrating its 100 years of accomplishments throughout 2008-09. In the run-up......

Now, robots make the grade

Thousands of robots which were confined to research labs in India, are now finding their way into schools and engineering colleges. The Robotics Institute (TRI) -- started in December 2005 by three......

Tata, Godrej in fair play panel

Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata, Godrej & Boyce chairman Jamshyd Godrej, Bharat Forge chairman Baba Kalyani, Wockhardt chief Habil Khorakiwala and Surinder Kapur of Sona Steering have been included......