Desi appointed dean of top US college

Physicist Kanwal Singh appointed dean of Sarah lawrence College, the first Indian American to head a leading liberal arts college in the US. Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC. Dr......

Parental supervision can curb underage drinking

Teens in high schools often succumb to peer pressure to take alcohol and end up as heavy drinkers in college. But, a new study has found a way out - parental monitoring. Researchers in the United......

NASA reveals stunning images of blue skies on Pluto

The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the a fine blue tinge.  Pluto’s haze layer shows its......

Sanskrit rocks for Maryland group

Katham Prachalati bhoH? ( Howzit going, dude?)Tat Sheethalam (Cool)That's how conversations go, when Arun Sankar meets a fellow Sanskrit-buff. You could be skeptical, you could even ask Parihaasam......

Niti Aayog being decked up to welcome new members

Hectic preparations are on at the newly-formed Niti Aayog to welcome the first Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya and other members whose appointments were approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on......

Akula leads Indo-American entrepreneur group

Satya M Akula, co-founder and chief operating officer, Amyx, Inc and partner, New Angel Capital LLC, has taken over as president of The Indus Entrepreneurs, DC-chapter - the most influential......

Carly Fiorina wins Global Leadership Award

There could not have been a worse paradox than this. On a night when Hewlett-PackardCEO Carly Fiorina's efforts were applauded and awarded in India, back in the US, it was a black Wednesday for one......

Arvind Panagariya appointed vice-chairman of NITI Aayog

Economist Arvind Panagariya was appointed the first vice chairman of the newly-created NITI Aayog on Monday. Bibek Debroy, another economist, and former DRDO chief V K Saraswat were appointed as......