MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

How tiny Taiwan came to be the epicentre of the global battle for technological supremacy

Over the past year, Taiwan has taken a lead in the race to build thinner, faster chips, or semiconductors. It is now the main source for th...

World’s most important place: Ruchir Sharma analyses the rise of Taiwan

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union threatened to spark conflict in nations all over the world, and battles over co...

Hyundai Motor Group chairman, units to buy Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for up to $828 million, says source

Chairman Euisun Chung will own a 20% stake in Boston Dynamics, while Hyundai Motor and its affiliates, Hyundai Mobis and Hyundai Glovis, wi...

Niti Aayog's draft guidelines set to boost online fantasy sports industry, says FIFS

In a draft report titled 'Guiding Principles for the Uniform National-Level Regulation of Online Fantasy Sports Platforms in India', Niti A...

FC Kohli, first CEO of TCS and father of Indian IT industry, passes away at 96

Kohli, who studied a Master’s degree from MIT, returned to India joining Tata Electric Co in 1951 to set up the country’s first load dispat...

MIT's endowment fund and Old Bridge Capital pick up stake in Tanla Platforms

Investors are bullish on Tanla Platforms after it reported earnings growth in the September-ended quarter with a net profit of Rs 81.5 cror...

MIT's endowment fund, Old Bridge Capital buy into Tanla via block deals

The endowment fund of US’s premier research university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), bought 985,000 shares and Old Bridge C...

US ends Boeing 737 MAX flight ban after crash probes

The 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people within five months in 2018 and 2019 and triggered a hailstorm of investigat...

COVID-19 risk in airplanes, restaurants, grocery stores cannot be easily compared: Scientists

A recent study has claimed that dining out, and grocery shopping could be more dangerous than air travel during the COVID-19, partly due to...

SBI partners with edX to offer massive open online courses

SBI has entered into the strategic partnership with edX with the aim to develop skill sets of career-oriented individuals in today's compet...

View: The charm of American education is over

​​The quest for higher-level learning and acquiring knowledge, made the youth to look for studies abroad. Studying abroad became synonymous...

JEE Advanced topper Chirag Falor to skip studying at IITs, will head to MIT

Falor, who bagged the top rank in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced, had also scored 100 percentile in the JEE-Mains.

Niti Aayog fine tuning indicators for ranking most backward districts: Amitabh Kant

The Aayog ranks 112 most backward districts on 49 key performance indicators across six developmental areas - Health and nutrition, educati...

China raises emissions reduction targets; Xi sets sights on carbon-neutrality by 2060

The announcement was cheered by climate campaigners. Greenpeace executive director Jennifer Morgan called it "an important signal" that sho...

Colleges win immigration battle but fear for US reputation as education destination

Already, there's concern that the coronavirus pandemic and a slowdown of visa processing could prevent thousands of students from returning...

TCS says deportation of students will restrict tech development in US

The US has issued new guidelines barring foreign students from remaining in America if their universities switched to online-only classes i...

India may see 2.87 lakh COVID-19 cases a day by winter 2021 if no vaccine or drug treatment: MIT study

There was no immediate reaction from the Union Health Ministry or the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) on Wednesday to the study co...