Forget Harvard et al: Can India match China’s STEM success by rethinking its higher education model?China's strategic investments in higher education, particularly through Project 985, have propelled its universities to global prominence i...
23 May, 2025, 11.38 PM IST
‘Brother’ in every name: Couple obsessed with having a son names all 9 daughters after himA Chinese couple from Huaian, Jiangsu, named each of their nine daughters with the character "di," meaning "brother," symbolizing their lon...
20 Mar, 2025, 04.58 PM IST
Indian-origin economist Tharman Shanmugaratnam sworn in Singapore's new PresidentTharman Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin economist, has been sworn in as the ninth president of Singapore. He succeeded Halimah Yacob, Sing...
14 Sep, 2023, 06.12 PM IST
Timeline: Chinese leader Xi Jinping's rise and ruleIn his first decade in power, he tightened state control over the economy and society and promoted a more muscular foreign and defence poli...
23 Oct, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
Xi Jinping: China's most powerful leader since Mao ZedongXi has amassed seemingly unchecked power and a level of officially-stoked adulation unseen since Communist China's founder Mao.
30 Aug, 2022, 06.26 PM IST
- China’s Karaoke And Kara-Not-Ok
Songs can be worrisome to any authority figure, as any parent listening in to the lyrics emanating from her or his daughter’s room may well...
11 Aug, 2021, 11.15 PM IST
China faces strains as population ages, birth rate fallsThe ruling party is easing official limits on the number of children each couple can have, hoping to counter the rapid aging of Chinese soc...
03 Jun, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
Data of one country should not become surreptitious property of another country: Ravi Shankar Prasad"The essence of digital world is transparency where on a click of button, everything is available. This system must be maintained in a robu...
09 Jul, 2020, 11.06 PM IST
Eminent historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan diesVasudevan had tested positive for novel coronavirus on May 6 after being admitted with high fever and breathing difficulty symptoms on May ...
10 May, 2020, 04.57 PM IST
Amid virus crackdown, Uighurs hope Chinese 'waking up' to their plightJewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti, criticised some of the measures imposed by Beijing, including placing...
21 Feb, 2020, 12.30 PM IST
China should 'know its place', not be 'overbearing', says son of iconic leader Deng XiaopingThe remarks by Deng Pufang, the eldest son of Deng Xiaoping, are seen as a counter-argument to President Xi's assertive foreign policy and ...
31 Oct, 2018, 06.17 PM IST
'Hindi Medium' gets a bigger opening than 'Dangal', 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan'The Irrfan Khan-starrer has earned about $22 million till date.
09 Apr, 2018, 07.22 PM IST
Bangalore Little Theatre's annual fundraiser is a Chinese folk tale adaptationCalled 'The Year of the Rooster', the play revolves around the relationship of a nobleman with his independent-minded daughter.
16 Nov, 2017, 06.59 PM IST
Chinese president Xi Jinping to Modi: Watched 'Dangal', and liked it'Dangal' has become the first top-grossing non- Hollywood film in China.
09 Jun, 2017, 06.38 PM IST
AR Rahman congratulates Aamir Khan for 'Dangal' success in ChinaReleased earlier this month in China, "Dangal", according to trade sources, so far has minted a whopping Rs 825 crore.
27 May, 2017, 12.58 PM IST
Gold sales tripled in China during April price correctionFurther drops may not spur as much buying because consumers will likely hold off, waiting for gold to hit a bottom, said Larry Cho, CIMB Se...
10 May, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Business marriages: How business interests are wedding themselves to political onesIt is common in commentary on business marriages to speak about them as mergers and acquisitions by other means.
06 Jan, 2013, 05.50 AM IST