It was at IIT-Bombay that Nandan Nilekani learnt "the most important lessons of my life'', a gratitude that the 1978-batch alumnus andnow Infosys chief expressed with a $ 5-million donation to the institute. Years ago, when Kanwal Rekhi  ..

India Thursday announced the auctions for 80 more hydrocarbon assets in the country, including 10 for coal-bed methane, in the largest such exercise under its new policy on oil and gas exploration.The 70 oil and gas blocks under round number eight of ..

The United States has asked India to address its concerns about the process for modifying foreign direct investment (FDI) requirements for internet service, access to submarine cable systems and restrictions on encryption.The concerns were expressed  ..

A Canadian pipeline company has defended the use of India-made steel for an oil pipeline project in President Barack Obama's home state of Illinois after a protest rally by hundreds of steel workers.TransCanada said Wednesday that it was necessar ..

Taipei-based company Elan Microelectronics has sued Apple for the alleged infringement of two of its touch screen patents in the iconic US technology company's iPhone and other devices.The suit was filed Tuesday in the US District Court in San Fr ..

Germany's main competition agency, the Federal Cartel Office, Wednesday slapped a fine of 9 million euros ($12 million) on US software company Microsoft for imposing a retail price for its Office Home and Student 2007 software.Microsoft said it w ..

Vice President Hamid Ansari will go down memory lane next week when he visits his alma mater St Edward's School in the Himachal Pradesh capital after more than half a century.Ansari, 70, who had studied in St Edward's during 1949-51, will spe ..

Indian students continue flocking to New Zealand for higher education and the number has increased by 300 percent in the last six years, says a diplomat from that country."India is a big market of talented students for us. Their number has consi ..

Computer science, law, languages and yoga are some of the subjects included in Mexico's first university for the elderly, an innovative project that seeks to respond to the gradual ageing of the population.Approximately eight percent of Mexicans  ..

The Delhi government Wednesday issued show cause notices to 12 unaided public schools for taking arbitrary decisions on the issue of fee hike, a statement issued by the state government said."Keeping in view reported instances of arbitrary decis ..

The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to revive an Uttar Pradesh law which sought to reserve 50 percent of seats in the state's all public and private educational institutions for students from Dalit, tribal and backward communities.A bench of Acti ..

IT training firm NIIT Ltd said it has entered into a deal to provide information and communications (ICT) training in 29 New Delhi municipal schools.NIIT will train the teachers and offer computer aided education to 11,500 students from these schools ..

Photographic equipment manufacturer Nikon Wednesday launched eight new models of its flagship Coolpix brand of digital cameras, priced in the range of Rs.7,450-Rs.25,950.The company, which commands five percent share in the Indian compact camera mark ..

The Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Wednesday said the state needed at least two to three Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to offset rising unemployment, even as the state government has reiterated it does not need any SEZ.GCCI president Nit ..

State-run power generation firm NTPC Ltd Wednesday reported 5.6 percent increase in its provisional net profit for 2008-09.NTPC, formerly known as National Thermal Power Corp, posted Rs.7,827.4 crore ($1.5 billion) as profit for 2008-09, compared to  ..

Tata Motors were set to accept the application forms for the world's cheapest car, the 624-cc jelly-bean shaped Nano, from Thursday in what will be the steepest booking fee charged in India for an automobile.Over the next 17 days, prospective buy ..

Debunking the myth that H-1B visas steal American jobs, a US think tank has asked the Congress to instead raise the cap on them to promote economic growth and generate much needed tax revenue a few days after a Republican Congressman introduced a bil ..

A new bill has been introduced in the US Congress to exempt foreign graduates of US PhD programmes from counting towards a cap on H-1B visas and give them 'green cards' or permanent residency directly.Jeff Flake, Republican member of the Hous ..

The number of Indian and South Korean students applying for the fall admission to US graduate programmes have fallen, while applications from China and the Middle East have surged, according to a survey released by the Council of Graduate Schools Tue ..

America's largest private student lender Sallie Mae plans to move 2,000 overseas jobs back to the US from India and the Philippines, reversing a cost-savings measure the company took a year ago.The jobs are projected to cost the Reston-based stud ..