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Dec. 20, '08 - Jan 05, '09

Chinese aim for the Ivy League

The book spawned a genre, selling more than two million copies in China on the premise that any child, with the proper upbringing, could be Ivy League material.

Documentary Review: 2 Million Minutes in India and China

The producer of the DVD, Bob Compton, is a venture capitalist and an angel investor in several technology companies worldwide.

New horizons, new challenges

In many other countries, multinational publishing has meant the death of indigenous publishers. Not so here (in India).

On the wings of change

Nandan Nilekani uses his long conversations with a cross section of contemporary Indian leaders to highlight some of the key ideas that have the potential to be translated into successes.

New IITs are badly planned: Prof CNR Rao

Chairman of Prime Minister's Science Advisory Council Professor CNR Rao is disappointed with the way the UPA government has gone about mushrooming new IITs.

Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets

The global economic crisis is akin to a power blackout. In both cases, a disturbance in one part of a complex “tightly coupled” system results in a cascade of failures through an entire network.

Influencing India: Experts who wield enormous influence in their fields

Wielding power is relatively easy, particularly when you get it through birth or through elections, but influence is something altogether different...

Dealing with a rogue state

Events after November 26 might seem to be going along the broad course that was set after the December 2001 attack on Parliament—angry accusations against Pakistan, ..

11 Questions for Obama’s Science Team
President-elect Barack Obama pledges to put a lot of emphasis not only on reinvigorating science, but on making decisions that are grounded in science.

Writing the Web’s Future in Numerous Languages

The next chapter of the World Wide Web will not be written in English alone. Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America, and by 2012 it will have three times as many.

Globalization and Poverty

India is a good test case to see how globalization increases real poverty even while measurements of growth make it look like the country is booming.

The wave for institution building got stronger

The year took the education sector by surprise. The government established three IITs, B-schools invited new companies on campus. Business Standard highlights interesting education events of the year.

Will Institute of Technology elude Karnataka again?

Delhi has turned a deaf ear to the decades-old demand for an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Karnataka and, like most other issues, it is being politicised.

India, US cos join hands to electrify Bijlee research

Fancy owning cars painted with particles that will cool your vehicle drawing solar power and still not leave a trace of carbon in the air?

The man who would be Sir MV

Veerappa Parameshwarappa Baligar, an IIT Mumbai graduate iis today a powerful bureaucrat who is principal secretary to chief minister B S Yeddyurappa.

MBAs, MBAs everywhere!

Almost everyone I meet these days professes to be an MBA. Most of those I have talked to have taken their MBA degrees by availing themselves of the distance education facility ..

Chandrayaan: India on the moon & more

With the launch of its first mooncraft, this year, India has become one of the world superpowers in the space technology club, which was being First results from Chandrayaan 1 dominated by US, Russia and Japan.

IIT Bhubaneswar to come up at Aragul

Talking about the location, Mr. Thakur said, "We find the site at Aragul most suitable for the new IIT as several other institutes of higher education..."

An Instant Lab in Your Mobile - Analyzing Blood, Detecting Diseases

...the phenomenal medical diagnostic hack using a mobile and beginning to turn it into a lab for developing countries..

PM: 20 new IITs, 7 IIMs, 30 Central varsities on cards

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today said that apart from the proposed eight new Indian Institutes of Technology, the Government proposed to set up another 20.

Now, robots to counter terror

Americans created history when they introduced armed robots in Iraq war to face the enemy without losing much of their armed personnel.

CBSE to introduce grade system till Class XII

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Delhi, has decided to start with the grading system for all classes from the coming academic session (2009-2010).

Ciklum Discusses the Myths and Realities of IT Outsourcing

With economic crises and financial bailouts occurring worldwide, many companies could benefit from outsourcing, but may be hesitant to explore their options because of these issues.

Meltdown aftermath: No takers for GRE?

Economic recession, bleak job prospects in the US and increase value of dollar against the rupee seems set to bring that down by more than 20 per cent.

Moonstruck: What Will India's Lunar Mission Achieve?

In India as in other countries, the Muslim faithful wait for a glimpse of the moon to start their Eid al-Fitr celebrations.

Knowledge City urged

BAHRAIN is the most ideal place in the Gulf to develop a Knowledge City, says a visiting Indian expert.

IT is not a science but an application

IT is not a science but merely an application of computer technology. But on the contrary, nanotechnology stays in the heart of scientific development, said CNR Rao

Nobel laureate lauds former RBI governor YV Reddy

Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz said if America had a central bank chief like YV Reddy, the US economy would not have been in such a mess.

Gujarat can become India's petro-hub: ONGC

Gujarat could become the hub of India's petroleum sector.

Contribute to boost science in the elections! 7 Congressional Questions at SEforA.org

A small group of six citizens - two screenwriters, a physicist, a marine biologist, a philosopher and a science journalist - began working to restore science and innovation to America’s political dialogue.

Mukesh Ambani Interview

Amartya Sen backs quotas, wants IIT-ians to do more for society

Counselling critics of reservation in Indian institutions like the IITs to take a long-term view of the delicate social issue, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said..

How India Avoided a Crisis

“What has taken a number of us by surprise is the lack of adequate supervision and regulation,” Rana Kapoor

TCS to give interviews the go-by for IIT comp science Phds

... encourage more students to pursue doctoral research in India,TCS said it would hire computer science Phds from IITs without interviews.

An Ethical Clothing Company Story

Their name comes from the Latin for cotton, and expresses their unexpected belief that the way clothes are made is as important as how they look.

Adapting to the New High-Skilled Migration

High-skilled migration is as controversial as other aspects of globalization. ... the person who has decided that the career advantages of movement outweigh the personal inconveniences.

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Current Science Online  ( Indian Academy of Science)
Digital Repository of the Raman Research Institute
Web site of National Knowledge Commission 
OurVillageIndia.org

Indian Space Research Organization

Mahatma Gandhi, the missing Laureate

S and T people who shaped modern India
 

Vikram Sarabhai (1919-1971): Architect of Indian space programme
Sir M. Visvesvaraya  Karnataka.com
Rabindranath Tagore  Nobelprize.org
Srinivasa Ramanujan  The Instiute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha  Science World.Wolfram
Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman(C.V.Raman) Nobelprize.org
Meghnad Saha  Calcuttaweb.com
Satyendranath (S. N.) Bose Calcuttaweb.com
Jagadish Chandra Bose  Calcuttaweb.com
P.C.Mahalanobis Indian Statistical Insitute Delhi Centre Library
Raja Ramanna   rajyasabha.gov.in
(To be continued)

Fun Web Sites for Children 

Children's Magazine from India  Chandamama   
                                                      
Stories from Mahabharata and Ramayana  

Book Box  

Fables  Panchtantra - the oldest fables from Ancient India.

A sample of books narrated for children at www.onemorestory.com:

National Geographic.com for kids

Science News for Kids

Globalization

The GATEWAY to International Development  Jobs and 
Consultancy Assignments ---  DEVNETJOBS

CAREER JET

WEATHER RESOURCE SYSTEM FOR INDIA

VIEW & SEARCH
Interactive City Maps 0f India

MapmyIndia.com
 

Chandrayaan completes four orbits around Earth

Bangalore: India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 is doing fine and has completed four orbits around the Earth,....

Companies offer lower salary, job seekers in trouble

New Delhi: Job seekers may not be able to negotiate on the salary offered by the companies anymore....

No job cuts in India's IT industry: Infosys Co-Chairman

Rocket completes mission, India's first moon spacecraft now in orbit

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): With a perfect liftoff, India's first spacecraft to the moon entered its scheduled orbit early Wednesday,....

IITs fear dip in endowment funds as global economy slows

Bangalore: Global economy slowdown is likely to affect the functioning of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)....

IIT Hyderabad to grow with Japanese partnership
Tokyo: A new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) coming up in Hyderabad will see close Japanese partnership at the post-graduate level in key areas....

USIBC hails India's moon mission as a new frontier of cooperation
Washington: The United States India Business Council (USIBC) has hailed the launch of India's maiden moon mission with two U.S. instrument....

'Chandrayaan-1 shows ISRO has come of age'

New Delhi: Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is the first Indian to go into space.....

`India`s moon mission a challenge`

Washington, Oct 23: As the White House hailed India's maiden moon mission

New 100% Efficient Solar Cell Emerges

The trouble with solar cells, for all their goodness, is that they can barely hold energy the way they should.....