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Recalled envoy cautions students going to Canada

Indians hoping to study in Canada should think twice because many students have ended up in substandard colleges with no job prospects despite spending lakhs of rupees, resulting in depression and......

Gurudwara in Canada vandalised with 'racist' graffiti

A gurudwara in Canada has been spray-painted with “racist” graffiti and profanity by some unidentified persons, prompting police to probe the incident as a hate crime, a media report......

Indian American is president at Buffalo university

Satish K Tripathi, who as provost raised academic standards and spurred student development, has been appointed president of the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. Tripathi, who maintains......

Canada varsity honours Green Revolution pioneer

Dr M S Swaminathan, who was among the scientists instrumental in heralding India's Green Revolution, will be conferred with an honourary degree by the University of Alberta, Edmonton, on October 7.......

Back pain is in your genes: Study

A twin study has shown that physical strain and exertion are not the only causative factors behind back pain, by finding that an individual's genetic makeup also plays an important role in the......

India shining: Interns get over Rs 1 lakh a month

Neha Anand, an engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), will be flying to the US for the first time this summer. The 21-year old student is on cloud nine, as she......

Interns need to file tax returns

An increasing number of management and engineering students from premier Indian institutes is bagging internship offers from institutions abroad. For instance, Indian Institute of Technology,......

Can India beat the 'super-cycle'?

The Indian economy can grow if it is delinked from the slow growth in the West and the deceleration in China, says Ashok K Lahiri. When a new major region develops rapidly, prices of primary......

World's 10 greenest cities

The scourge of global warming has become the bane of modern man. Increasing pollution, utter disregard for or indiffernce to the ecosystem, and manic industrialisation are compounding an......

10 Indians in elite US engineering body

In his 30-year-plus career as a scientist, technologist and entrepreneur, Dr Kanti Jain has achieved many milestones, including developing fabrication technologies for microelectronics such as......

'A silly film, but SRK rocks'

There is a generation of Indian filmgoers who have never seen the original Don, and I happen to be part of that generation. I could've easily watched Amitabh Bachchan's Don before the updated......

Priya Banerjee: I am nervous about KISS

Priya Banerjee, the latest entrant to the Telugu film industry, was declared Miss Photogenic at the Miss World Canada in 2011. She has been a model and TV show host. She has also trained in......

Spotted: Azhar in 1988

Reader Anil Kukreja sent us this picture from Canada. 'This picture was taken way back in the summer of 1988 when Mohammad Azharuddin had come to Edmonton (Canada) for a couple of days en route to......

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