New Delhi, April 25: India hosts for the first time the Heart of Asia Istanbul Process conference aimed at bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan. “India is actively participating in all the six confidence-building measures (CBMs) under this mechanism, namely, counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, disaster management, education, regional infrastructure and the trade,Read More →
Kolkata: As many as 15 students from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur have been selected for the Google Summer of Code open-source coding programme, the institute said. The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an international annual programme, in which Google awards stipends (of $5,500 as of 2015) to allRead More →
Mumbai, April 23: After a long struggle of 38 years, a 90-year-old Spanish Jesuit priest — who has lived and worked in the country for 67 years — was finally granted Indian citizenship here this week. Mumbai Suburban district collector Shekhar Channe awarded the Certificate of Naturalisation to Fr. GussiRead More →
April 22: Dipa Karmakar entered into history books as she became India’s first woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics after putting up a strong show at the final qualifying and Rio Games test event. Dipa, who is an Asian bronze medallist, qualified in the artistic gymnastics event at Rio DeRead More →
It is a romantic story – well romantic story in the history of MATHEMATICS! It goes back to 1913 when an Iyengar man, Srinivasa Ramanujan and English mathematician and Cambridge professor G. H. Hardy, first marvelled at each other’s arithmetical forte. Srinivasa Ramanujan, born as Iyengar in 1887 in SouthRead More →
Thrilled at the detection of the elusive gravitational waves a century after Albert Einstein’s prediction and the first observation of collision of two black holes at the Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), two young US-based Indian researchers working on the project, told Shahana Ghosh that the waves act as a sixth senseRead More →
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has made India proud once again. Her name has been featured in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list alongside Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and singer Nicki Minaj, among others. Priyanka, who came into the limelight in theRead More →
London, April 22: After logging a higher growth, India has emerged as the top-ranked nation in the flow of foreign direct investment in 2015, beating China on the very turf it has dominated for a few decades, says the think tank of the Financial Times. “After a long period ofRead More →
Actor Emraan Hashmi, who features in another cricket-based film “Azhar” after “Jannat”, says he doesn’t know why he always gets films with the controversial match-fixing angle. “‘Jannat’ released six years ago, and there was a match-fixing sub-plot in that film as well. So I don’t know why I get onlyRead More →
Actress Madhuri Dixit-Nene, known for her graceful dance moves, says primarily she is a stage dancer but has a bit of street dancing in her as well. “I have stage (dancing) in me, because I learned Kathak which is a stage thing, but there is a bit of street (dancing)Read More →