Indian American bags 'Junior Nobel' scholarship

Indian American Ryna Karnik has bagged the third place and a $50,000 scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search, often dubbed the 'Junior Nobel Prize'.The 17-year-old is a student of the Oregon......

Abhijit Banerjee joins list of Indian Nobel Laureates

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Economics, joining the list of Indians and people of Indian origin to grab the world's most prestigious award in different fields.......

A Nobel laureate salutes another

In the fourth part of the series on Dr Har Gobind Khorana, who passed into the ages on November 9, 2009 Chemistry Nobel winner Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares his memories of the great......

Why Latin America Loves India And Vice Versa

The warmth and respect for India were evident wherever I went and noticed how most Latin Americans have Indian gurus either directly or online and yoga was very much in vogue, observes Ambassador T......

Ajay Banga poised to become World Bank chief unopposed

Indian-American business leader Ajay Banga is poised to become the next President of the World Bank after the nomination period closed and no country proposed an alternate candidate for the......

Indian economy is on a shaky ground: Abhijit Banerjee

'In the last five-six years, at least we could witness some growth, but now that assurance is also gone,' Banerjee told a news channel from the US. Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who on Monday......

Gita Gopinath to quit as IMF chief economist, return to Harvard

IMF's Chief Economist Gita Gopinath will leave her job in January next year and return to the prestigious Harvard University, according to the global financial institution. Photograph: Charles......

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......

PIX: When Shah Rukh Khan kept his date with Yale

Shah Rukh Khan, who became the first Bollywood personality to be honoured with the prestigious Chubb Fellowship at Yale University, delivered his lecture as a Fellow amidst cheering fans and......

Why Bob Dylan's music mattered to India

The unconventional music of the Nobel Laureate might have nothing connecting Indians to it. But there is a reason he has a following here, notes T C A Srinivasa Raghavan. IMAGE: Bob Dylan has been......

'I thought the audience would faint'

The angels were surely on Mira's side when she was thinking of having all-Indian cast for The Namesake," says Ronnie Screwvala, the executive producer of the film, referring toMira Nair's latest......

Spotted: Kevin Pietersen in the West Indies

Reader Siddhartha Kunzru sent us this photograph. 'This is a photo of my friend Rishikesh Bagati with Kevin Pietersen in a hotel in the Caribbean (during the March 2009 England trip to the......