China says blocking Azhar's listing to help find lasting solution

China on Thursday defended its fourth 'technical hold' on the designation of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, saying the move would give it time for a......

Nirupama Rao named visiting fellow at US university

Nirupama Rao, the former Indian Ambassador to the US, has been named as the 'Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow' with the Brown-India initiative at the Watson Institute for International Studies. Rao,......

Modi invited to US by parliamentarians, businessmen

A delegation comprising United States parliamentarians and businessmen called on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and imvited him to the US. He has been denied visa by that country after the......

Anjali Bhatia chosen for Citizen Diplomacy award

Anjali Bhatia, a student at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is one of six people chosen to receive the inaugural National Awards for Citizen Diplomacy. Instituted by the US Center for......

Teach Mandarin and get rich

The world's attention has been riveted by the urgency with which the Chinese are learning English. Stories abound of how, in response to the Party diktat to learn English before the 2008 Olympics,......

IITs: Indian Institutes in Trouble

Next week, about 20 faculty members of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, will cut short their vacations and teaching assignments across the globe to congregate in San Francisco's Bay......

'Little India' is BIG globally

August has been a good month for Delhi-based fashion designer Manish Arora. He's just heard that celebrities like Keira Knightley, Kate Bosworth and Alicia Keyes had picked up shoes designed by him......