'No Chinese military bases in Indian Ocean'

Former Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, on Friday,dismissed the view that China plans to encircle India through military bases in the Indian Ocean, saying the 'string of pearls' is a "pretty......

New Jersey:5 charged with Indian American's murder

Five juveniles, who were initially arrested and charged following the death of computer scientist Divyendu Sinha of Old Bridge, New Jersey on June 28, were on Friday accused of Sinha's murder. The......

Indicorps: The saga continues...

Part I: Humanity that worksOn the surface, the notion of doing social work in India is not new, and Sonal is the first to admit as much. There are thousands of non-profits and NGOs in India,......

Karzai in India, to cement ties

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will meet on Monday in New Delhi. Karzai arrived in the capital on Sunday night. The delegation includes, Minister of Foreign......

SEC names 5 specialised unit chiefs

The US regulator Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed heads of five new specialised units, in a move to rebuild its enforcement programme. The enforcement division of SEC in a......

Harvard style software from Chennai co

A Chennai-based software development company Arrowpoint Technologies Pvt Ltd has developed Enterprise Strategy Ware, a balanced scorecard product, which is a Harvard business school concept that......

Big question from the Greece crisis: Do history and geography trump economics?

How did Greece, the country of Archimedes and Socrates and Plato and Pythagoras, come to such dire straits, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Like any Indian schoolboy, or should I say any schoolboy......

The research dilemma at the IIMs

"Please explain to me," said a senior education ministry bureaucrat to me recently, "how is it that our IIMs are so successful in producing world-class graduates but fare so poorly in international......