Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw picks niece Claire as successor at BioconBiocon's founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has made a groundbreaking announcement, pledging her niece Claire Mazumdar as her heir apparent. The t...
06 May, 2026, 01.07 AM IST
Claire Mazumdar: A silent force behind a $1.6 billion firm may write Biocon's future scriptsBiocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has named her niece, Claire Mazumdar, as her successor. Claire Mazumdar, a successful CEO of Bicara Ther...
05 May, 2026, 11.51 AM IST
Nadir Godrej, chairperson of the Godrej Industries Group to step downNadir Godrej will retire as chairperson of the Godrej Industries Group in August 2026. He will become Chairman Emeritus. Godrej will step d...
13 Apr, 2026, 07.01 PM IST
Who is Megha Vemuri, the Indian-origin MIT student barred from her own graduation ceremony?Megha Vemuri, an Indian-origin student leader at MIT, faced repercussions for her pro-Palestinian speech during commencement. MIT barred he...
02 Jun, 2025, 11.31 AM IST
Veteran banker Victor Menezes passes away at 77Victor Menezes, a veteran banker of Indian origin, has passed away in the US at age 77. An alumnus of IIT-Bombay and MIT, he had a distingu...
03 Feb, 2025, 02.18 PM IST
These elite American universities are actually a bargainCalifornia stands out for having many excellent public universities that offer a pretty good deal for in-state students of all incomes and ...
01 May, 2023, 11.05 AM IST
Want to study at the top 5 universities in the US?The list of top national colleges of the United States of 202-2023 has come out, where nearly 1500 colleges were evaluated according to 17 ...
14 Sep, 2022, 05.33 PM IST
JEE Advanced topper Chirag Falor to skip studying at IITs, will head to MITFalor, who bagged the top rank in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced, had also scored 100 percentile in the JEE-Mains.
05 Oct, 2020, 07.17 PM IST
MIT, TSW tie up for design-driven innovation workshop for senior techiesThe two-day workshop will address the five essential steps to implementation: empathy, defining, ideating, prototyping and testing.
01 Oct, 2018, 11.16 PM IST
Huge potential for Subsurface engineering in highway tunnels: Nitin GadkariThere are about 20 tunnel projects currently being implemented in Jammu & Kashmir, which could absorb Subsurface engineers, Gadkari said.
15 Nov, 2017, 09.03 PM IST
Anantha P Chandrakasan: MIT's School of Engineering gets Indian-origin deanThe Chennai-born academic credits his mother, a biochemist and Fulbright scholar, with inspiring him to take up an academic career.
25 Jun, 2017, 07.25 PM IST
IIT alumni centre to help Modi government in identifing visiting teachersIIT Alumni Industry Interaction Centre, Chennai (IIT AIIC) has already helped identify 50 global institutions and Indian academics for buil...
13 May, 2016, 04.25 AM IST
IIT Kharagpur ties up with MIT, others for cultural researchIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has entered into research tie-ups with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and various ot...
02 Oct, 2015, 05.40 AM IST
IITian named director of MIT's largest interdisciplinary labThe prestigious MIT has named Indian academician Anant Agarwal as director of its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (...
21 Jun, 2011, 10.49 PM IST
Indian-origin professor Anantha Chandrakasan to lead MIT's largest academic departmentIndian-origin academician Anantha Chandrakasan has been named head of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
14 Jun, 2011, 04.45 PM IST
- India needs to take R&D lessons from MIT, says geek
ET talks to Vinay Gidwaney, who co-founded two software companies when he was just 19.
08 Mar, 2010, 11.59 AM IST
- She is just 23, and already in crorepati club
Here’s another reason for Bangaloreans to cheer. Shruti Chandrashekar, born and brought up in IT City, has joined the crorepati club with a...
24 Oct, 2006, 03.46 PM IST