British Indian student elected president of historic Cambridge UnionAnoushka Kale, a British Indian student, has been elected as the President of the Cambridge Union Society for Easter 2025. She aims to enha...
09 Dec, 2024, 09.24 PM IST
International community fails to provide adequate funding for climate & biodiversity: Indian trade policy expert Pradeep MehtaAt CUTS International's 40th anniversary, trade policy expert Pradeep Mehta criticized unilateral trade and environmental measures while hi...
11 Nov, 2024, 10.39 PM IST
Google to launch anti-misinformation campaign ahead of EU electionsEurope's Digital Services Act, which comes into force this week, will require very large online platforms and search engines to do more to ...
16 Feb, 2024, 01.19 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi calls for new thinking for democratic systems at Cambridge University addressThe Opposition MP, who is a Visiting Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge JBS), delivered the lecture to students at th...
01 Mar, 2023, 08.53 PM IST
Racist, offensive: Jairam Ramesh, Shashi Tharoor slam Britain's COVID-19 travel rulesTagging a thread on Twitter that explained the rules, Tharoor also slammed the restrictions on vaccinated Indians, saying, "Because of this...
20 Sep, 2021, 11.01 PM IST
Neither Sinicisation nor Nehru's secularism the way forward: Book by RSS leader J NandakumarCalling the Chinese model of dealing with minorities, "ruthless, violent and inhuman," Nandakumar says, in his book, "Communist China adopt...
06 Jan, 2020, 06.22 PM IST
The Super 30 effect: Anand Kumar joins Google's list of most searched Indian personalitiesKumar is at number 4, behind AF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman.
13 Dec, 2019, 08.30 AM IST
UK watchdog fines Facebook 500,000 pounds for data breach scandalUK's Information Commissioner's Office concluded that Facebook failed to keep the personal information secure because it failed to make sui...
25 Oct, 2018, 05.20 PM IST
From Subrata Roy to Rupert Murdoch, 5 business figures who were at the receiving end of hurled projectilesRecently, a man smashed a pie in Qantas CEO Alan Joyce's face.
17 May, 2017, 10.31 AM IST
Dazzle of numbers can’t hide demonetisation devastation: P ChidambaramMaintaining that only structural reforms and policy initiatives would check corruption and usher in transparency, GST will be a major refor...
04 Mar, 2017, 01.00 AM IST
Queen Elizabeth II to step down as patron of 25 charitiesThe Queen's husband Prince Philip, 95, had stepped away from a number of charities five years ago.
20 Dec, 2016, 07.13 PM IST
Brexit big blow to UK science: Researchers"This is a big blow for the hiring of talented people across the EU," said Ewan Birney, co-director of the European Bioinformatics Institut...
25 Jun, 2016, 05.56 PM IST
JNU row: Students in California, Yale narrate Kanhaiya Kumar's 'seditious' speechOver 400 academicians from international varsities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard and Cambridge, have also come out in support of JNU s...
21 Feb, 2016, 11.28 AM IST
Top UK varsities condemn police action in JNUEight top universities in the UK including Oxford and Cambridge came out in support of JNU, strongly criticising the police action in its c...
18 Feb, 2016, 10.59 PM IST
Academicians from international varsities extend support to JNUOver 400 academicians from international varsities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard and Cambridge, have come out in support of JNU studen...
16 Feb, 2016, 03.45 PM IST
Book says how table tennis was potent instrument of diplomacyAs an 18-year-old student at Cambridge in the 1920s, before he joined the Communist Party against his father's wishes, Montagu codifies Pin...
07 Jul, 2014, 01.43 PM IST
- Oxford cannot be franchised like hamburgers: Vice-Chancellor
On a visit to Delhi, Andrew Hamilton, vice-chancellor of Oxford, gave his first interview to a foreign publication since taking office, tel...
28 Mar, 2010, 10.17 AM IST