Twitter launches new feature Moments
The beloved social microblogging site, Twitter has unveiled a new feature; Moments. This special new feature displays a pictorial slideshow of trending tweets. A...
Proposal to raise IIT fees has been put on hold
Ahead of the Bihar assembly sections, a proposal to raise fees for IIT courses has been shelved. The silver lining to this proposal, however,...
Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The three scientists, from Sweden, the US and Turkey respectively, received an equal share of the prestigious 8m Swedish kronor (£631,000) award for “mechanistic...
Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon gift $100 million to NYU School of Engineering
The Tandons’ donation is believed to be the largest philanthropic gift by a member of the Indian-American community.
The gift is intended to build on...
Debate team from Harvard loses while competing with New York prison inmates
After being crowned as world champions in 2014, the Harvard debate team lost a friendly competition with the inmates of New York prison, who...
Breaking The Taboo
As far as we have come with Mars missions, scientific breakthroughs, making history with same-sex marriage and equality, the world still struggles with the idea of...
The Start Up Revolution
GROWTH PROSPECTS
An ambitious initiative called “10,000 Startups”, aiming to scale up the startup ecosystem in India by 10x. The program is supported by Microsoft, Google, Intel,...
The Educational Arena Of Politics
We have heard one too many times that everyone calls politics is a messy field, but no one wants to step in to change that....
The Pros And Cons Of Multitasking
In a world as hurried as ours, multitasking is a must. But is it really helping us at all? Is multitasking slowing us down instead of...
Revising CAT 2015
It’s that time of the year again, when examinations are being held and students are reading up in earnest about all the procedures they have to undergo to secure that seat in their university of choice. We...
