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Indian American lawyer Vanita Gupta to head US civil rights division
16 Oct 2014
Vanita Gupta, a top lawyer from American Civil Liberties Union, is the first South Asian to hold the post
Arvind Subramanian is India’s new chief economic adviser
16 Oct 2014
The Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Development, Arvind Subramanian has written on India, growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, climate change, oil, intellectual property, the WTO, China, and Africa
French economist Jean Tirole wins Economics Nobel
14 Oct 2014
Jean Tirole has made important theoretical research contributions in a number of areas, but most of all he has clarified how to understand and regulate industries with a few powerful firms
Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzay share Peace Nobel
10 Oct 2014
The laureates, both from the Indian subcontinent, were honoured "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"
Chopper scam: 2 former Finmeccanica chiefs cleared of corruption
09 Oct 2014
Former Finmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi and ex-AgustaWestland head Bruno Spagnolini, however, were sentenced to two-year jail term for falsification of invoices in the Rs3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal with India
Facebook targets local content for growth in India
09 Oct 2014
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of a $1 million fund to help developers develop apps for farmers, migrants and women, to drive new apps and services in local languages
French author Patrick Modiano wins Literature Nobel
09 Oct 2014
Modiano is the 11th Nobel Laureate in Literature born in France and is the 111th Literature Laureate in total
Veteran journalist MV Kamath dies at 93
09 Oct 2014
Kamath, who was the Washington correspondent of The Times of India from 1969 to 1978 and later the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, was also one of the earliest biographers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Two Americans and a German share Chemistry Nobel
08 Oct 2014
Eric Betzig, Stefan W Hell and William E Moerner were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for making "an optical microscope into a nanoscope"
Karnataka High Court refuses to grant bail for Jayalalithaa, others
07 Oct 2014
Special public prosecutor G Bhavani Singh argued that Jayalalithaa being an influential person, if granted bail, may try to escape from conviction or abscond from the country, but said he had no objection to granting her conditional bail
Japanese-American trio who invented LED lamp share 2014 Physics Nobel
07 Oct 2014
With savings in both electricity and materials, and adaptability to cheap solar power, the LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids, the Nobel Committee said
Former SAP executive Michael Reh joins Infosys
07 Oct 2014
Former SAP executive Michael Reh joins Infosys
07 Oct 2014
John O'Keefe shares Medicine Nobel with May-Britt and Edvard Moser
06 Oct 2014
Anglo-American John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of brain's GPS system
John O'Keefe shares Medicine Nobel with May-Britt and Edvard Moser
06 Oct 2014
Anglo-American John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of brain's GPS system
“Bitcoin is better than currency” Bill Gates
04 Oct 2014
Bill Gates ‘happy with Nadella’
04 Oct 2014
Jayalalithaa to spend another week in jail as bail hearing deferred
01 Oct 2014
J Jayalalithaa's conviction automatically disqualifies her from continuing as chief minister or even as an ordinary member of the state assembly under a recent Supreme Court precedent
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