New India programme in University of Florida

India will be the focus of a new programme being launched at the University of Central Florida, according to an official statement.The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Programme Endowed Fund, as it......

Houston, we have a problem: Mars One's mission delayed by 2 years

Mars One's ambitious mission to send four people to colonise the red planet in 2024, which includes three Indians among its 100 finalists, has been pushed back by two years. Mars One, a......

Slain journalist's family to IS: Where is your mercy?

The family of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist brutally slaughtered in Syria in recent weeks, described their son as ‘a gentle soul’ who ‘tried to find good in a......

US police thwarts planned massacre by college student

 A planned massacre was thwarted at the University of Central Florida when a student who had assembled an arsenal, including a high capacity drum magazine and home made bombs, killed himself......

Florida-based IMG sets foot in Andhra

Sports infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh would get a major boost with the state government signing a memorandum on Saturday with Florida-based International Management Group to build infrastructure......

Nicholas Piramal develops drug leads from Antarcti

Indian drug major Nicholas Piramal India Ltd is likely to be among the first pharmaceutical companies worldwide to develop drugs isolated from the flora and fauna of Antarctica. It will shortly......

Do you know what impact investing is?

'India is the largest stomping ground in the world for impact investing as we have an extraordinary combination of entrepreneurial drive with huge, absolute demand for all kinds of social......

Little hope for post-war boom in US economy

The US economy seems to have all but stalled out in recent months -- or perhaps even contracted -- and a raft of gloomy data have economists worried a revival may be difficult even if the Iraq war......

Abebe Bikila: Emperor of the Marathon

Prakash Bhandari salutes the spirit of Abebe Bikila who twice won the Olympic Marathon in record times. IMAGE: Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, running barefoot, draws away from Abdesselem Rhadi of......

IMG signs MoU with AP Govt

The US-based International Management Group has inked a deal with the Andhra Pradesh government to groom talent, maintain infrastructure and set up multi-purpose sports and recreational facilities......

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......