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IIT Kharagpur to train learners in high performance computing and AI
It will “focus on manpower creation and upskilling of students, faculty, scientists, researchers, scientific users in large scale computing...
Indian-origin Srikant Datar named dean of Harvard Business School
Datar, an alumnus of University of Bombay and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Busines...
'Log in & learn' enrolments see monster jump in India
The Enter key on the touchpad was never deemed so powerful. The once-casual click has become the gateway to lecture halls for millions of s...
8 websites offering free or paid online courses that can enhance your career
The lockdown is a good time to upskill or acquire knowledge in a new field. Acquiring a new skill can help you enhance your career. Do ke...
Nokia to set up robotics lab at Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
Nokia will set up a robotics lab at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru for research on socially-relevant use cases based on ...
Grooming tax burns a hole in the purses of working women, but let's not talk about gender pay gap yet
If you took the title of the article seriously, this is to inform you: it was sarcastic.
Harvard, MIT take Trump administration to court on student visa order
The lawsuit seeks a restraining order on enforcing guidelines that will force foreign students to leave US.
New visa order for foreign students in US: Here's all you need to know
Donald Trump on Monday announced that international students who are only attending online classes in the Fall semester starting in Septemb...
Pulitzer winner Siddhartha Mukherjee, Prof Raj Chetty among '2020 Great Immigrants' honourees
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Professor of Economics at Harvard University Raj Chetty have been na...
IIT Madras launches world's first online BSc degree in Programming and Data Science
The programme was launched by Union Human Resource Development (HRD)Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' and Minister of State for HRD Sanja...
Angry undergrads are suing colleges for billions in refunds
For individual students, the funds can be quite a boon in an economic crisis.
Indian-American woman elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Renu Khator, an Indian-American university chancellor, has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her co...
IIT-Delhi keen on JNU’s STEM professors to strengthen roots
“There could be a dozen such people at JNU who have won some award in the past and come with rich academic resource, especially in the subj...
Indra Nooyi receives honorary degree from Yale University for achievements in business
Nooyi was among 11 individuals to be presented with the honorary degrees for achieving distinction in their fields.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen honoured with Oxford University's Bodley Medal
The medal is the highest honour bestowed by the University of Oxford's world-famous Bodleian Libraries.
IITians to get lessons in Fine Arts, Humanities
IIT-Madras has five-year integrated MA programmes in subjects like economics, while IIT-Delhi offers two-year programmes and Kharagpur teac...
IIT-Bombay shifts gears to make itself women-friendly
To engage with society and industry, it will take up 10 research projects with local and state governments. It is also planning to incubate...
St Joseph's College of Arts and Science's English lecturer gets the boot for airing personal views in class
"Sexual orientation is his personal life and we have no problems with that," college principal Victor Lobo said. "But in a classroom, he wa...
4 Indian Americans elected to US Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ravindran Kannan, 62, serves as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group.
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