Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday congratulated the Nobel Prize winners and stressed that India had reason to be proud because Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was largely educated in the country.â...
Over the past year and a half, the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have handled themselves with a fervor and commitment that has, most of the time, inspired the...
The medical profession has an ethic: first, do no harm. Silicon Valley has an ethos — build it first and ask for forgiveness later. Now, in the wake of fake news and other troubles at tech companies...
Ahead of the 2019 general election, a team of researchers has generated India’s first estimates and maps displaying how health, nutrition, and other socioeconomic indicators differ across the countr...
Implications of the National Register of Citizens, future of digital business in India, the youth's political re-alignment would be among the topics in focus during the 17th edition of the Harvard Uni...
As many as 65 top US universities, including Harvard and MIT, have challenged the Trump administration in a court against its new stringent visa policy for foreign students, warning that the new 'back...
The studio for what is arguably the world’s most successful online course is tucked into a corner of Barb and Phil Oakley’s basement, a converted TV room that smells faintly of cat urine. (At the ...
For about 90 minutes on Thursday, a ceremony in an auditorium at Harvard University brought together elements of academe and the absurd.Men and women hurled paper planes — twice — at a man on the ...
Scientists have for the first time deduced through genetic evidence that mysterious human skeletons discovered decades ago around the shores of Roopkund lake in Uttarakhand represent distinct populati...
Harvard University announced Wednesday that it would not accept $8.6 million in taxpayer money that the university was set to receive as part of an emergency relief package for higher education, whose...
By Anemona Hartocollis/ New York Times News Service
in New York