Bharti chairman Sunil Mittal knighted by Britain’s King CharlesMittal was awarded the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE). The KBE is among the highest honours confe...
28 Feb, 2024, 05.22 PM IST
Cambridge University launches fellowship to study Indian indentured labour historyThe University of Cambridge's Selwyn College has appointed Guyanese-American Professor Gaiutra Bahadur as the first-ever Ramesh and Leela N...
04 Aug, 2023, 06.09 PM IST
PE veteran Shashank Singh quits Apax PartnersSingh will be moving permanently to London, the sources added. He joined Apax in 2004 in its London office and moved to the India office in...
04 Jul, 2023, 09.01 PM IST
Cambridge University 'benefited directly' from slavery, finds studyThe enquiry, which was launched in 2019 and published as a digest on Friday, aimed to shed a light on the ways in which the university was ...
24 Sep, 2022, 10.09 AM IST
Credberg to invest over Rs 1,000 crore in Indian income-producing assetsCreberg is foraying into investment management and looking to raise its maiden fund Credberg Real estate office opportunities fund 1 (CREOO...
11 May, 2022, 09.35 PM IST
Milder Omicron an "evolutionary mistake"; next variant could be more virulent: warns Indian-origin UK expertWhile the study showed that the new variant, dominant in the UK and now sweeping parts of India, is infecting the cells found in the lungs ...
07 Jan, 2022, 11.19 AM IST
Omicron's mildness a 'mistake', COVID itself not getting milder, warns UK expertThe reduced severity of Omicron is good news for now, but it is the result of an "evolutionary mistake" and does not indicate that the viru...
07 Jan, 2022, 09.56 AM IST
Britain in early stages of third wave of coronavirus, warns Indian-origin scientistProfessor Ravi Gupta of the University of Cambridge, who is a member of the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisor...
31 May, 2021, 07.04 PM IST
Jayati Ghosh named by UN to high-level advisory board on economic, social affairsGhosh, 65, is a professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University for ...
25 Jan, 2021, 12.29 PM IST
New Covid variant raises concern, but unlikely to impact vaccine developmentA number of European countries have banned flights from the UK as the British government warned that the potent new strain of the virus was...
21 Dec, 2020, 10.36 AM IST
Why relying on big data analytics for strategies is a risky move for political partiesGartner estimated that 60% of big data projects fail. According to an analyst, this was 'too conservative', with the failure rate probably ...
30 Mar, 2018, 06.36 AM IST
Cambridge Analytica may have suspended CEO Nix, but his work lives onNix remains a director and retains partial ownership of Cambridge Analytica’s British affiliate, SCL Group, which continues to work on poli...
23 Mar, 2018, 06.22 PM IST
Centre to test incentives for government staff in naxal-hit areasSops, aimed at incentivising government service in areas affected by Left-wing extremism, include sponsored foreign education and free insu...
02 Aug, 2013, 04.56 AM IST
Narendra Modi not secular enough to be PM, says Amartya SenI would not like a prime minister who generates concern and fear on the part of minorities, says Amartya Sen.
23 Jul, 2013, 02.56 PM IST
- Economic Survey 2013: Raghuram Rajan's young brigade
ET brings you a glimpse of some of the young faces in chief economic adviser Raghuram Rajan's team that worked on his first Survey.
28 Feb, 2013, 04.01 AM IST
- Cambridge University looking for partnerships in India
Cambridge University is looking to form high quality partnerships in the areas of drug discovery and disease management.
14 Sep, 2011, 12.20 PM IST
- Exit expert group, enter individual advisors
The consultative committees set up for mid-term appraisals of the 10th Plan may be dead, courtesy strident opposition of the Left, but cons...
09 Oct, 2004, 01.53 AM IST