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  • Who was Vikram Kirloskar, the man who brought Toyota to India? November 30, 2022 12:16 PM IST

    Who was Vikram Kirloskar, the man who brought Toyota to India?

    Vikram Kirloskar, Vice Chairperson of Toyota Kirloskar Motor, died of a heart attack on November 29. He was 64.

  • MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab help machines see better using spatial acoustics November 02, 2022 05:00 PM IST

    MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab help machines see better using spatial acoustics

    By modelling acoustics, machines can learn more about their environment

  • MIT astronomers find ‘strange’ radio signal from distant galaxy July 20, 2022 03:13 PM IST

    MIT astronomers find ‘strange’ radio signal from distant galaxy

    Astronomers at MIT and other universities in Canada and USA have detected a “strange and persistent radio signal” from a distant galaxy.

  • Study Abroad: Top five universities in the US July 14, 2022 02:51 PM IST

    Study Abroad: Top five universities in the US

    While university education cost remains quite high in the US for foreign students, the quality of education at top institutions there works as a ladder for socio-economic success, and professional growth.

  • Study Abroad: Top 10 universities and educational institutions in the world July 10, 2022 02:50 PM IST

    Study Abroad: Top 10 universities and educational institutions in the world

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranked No. 1 out of 1500-plus universities assessed in the 2023 QS World University, followed by the University of Cambridge (UK) and Stanford University.

  • QS World University Rankings 2023: Top 10 universities in the world July 04, 2022 12:23 PM IST

    QS World University Rankings 2023: Top 10 universities in the world

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) achieves a record-extending eleventh consecutive year as world number one. The QS World University Rankings 2023 include almost 1,500 institutions from around the world. A total of 41 Indian universities have been featured in this year's QS World University rankings. Indian Institute if Science (IISc) is the top research university in the world and was placed at 155th rank globally this year. Let's take a look at the top 10 universities in the world for 2023.

  • California, New York and Massachusetts among top five destinations for Indian students going to the US June 21, 2022 02:56 PM IST

    California, New York and Massachusetts among top five destinations for Indian students going to the US

    An analysis of the official international student flow to the US shows that while more than 27 percent of foreign students in Illinois are Indians, its almost 22 percent in Texas, about 18 percent in New York and 13.7 percent in California.

  • QS World University Rankings 2023: IISc top research university in the world; 27 Indian varsities among top 1000 June 09, 2022 01:51 AM IST

    QS World University Rankings 2023: IISc top research university in the world; 27 Indian varsities among top 1000

    The Indian top universities are led by IISc, followed by IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi respectively.

  • Explained | UK's new visa rule for brain gain: Is it worth all the noise? June 02, 2022 04:21 PM IST

    Explained | UK's new visa rule for brain gain: Is it worth all the noise?

    While the UK argues that new visa scheme will attract top talents to aid its economic growth and innovations further, the scheme is facing criticism of being elitist and exclusionary not just for regions like India and South Asia, Latin America and Africa, but even for parts of Europe

  • US teen earns $4 million in scholarship, gets accepted into 27 universities April 13, 2022 04:35 PM IST

    US teen earns $4 million in scholarship, gets accepted into 27 universities

    Apart from being a homecoming king, 18-year-old Jonathan Walker is involved with the science club and is also on the varsity football team.

  • Pocket Change founder Anushka Shah on democracy, humour and Indian politics February 27, 2022 08:06 PM IST

    Pocket Change founder Anushka Shah on democracy, humour and Indian politics

    Founder of production house Civic Studios Anushka Shah talks about their YouTube Hindi comedy channel 'Pocket Change', the state of Indian politics and the power of humour for a healthy democracy.

  • Scientists discover new Earth-sized 'pi planet' that orbits its star in 3.14 days September 22, 2020 04:20 PM IST

    Scientists discover new Earth-sized 'pi planet' that orbits its star in 3.14 days

    Pi Earth circles its star every 3.14 days at a blistering 81 kilometres per second.

  • Harvard, MIT sue Trump administration over new rule for foreign students July 08, 2020 07:13 PM IST

    Harvard, MIT sue Trump administration over new rule for foreign students

    The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to bar the US Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the enforcing federal guidelines that will force international students to leave the US.

  • There's a 70% chance of US recession in the next 6 months, says study February 07, 2020 03:16 PM IST

    There's a 70% chance of US recession in the next 6 months, says study

    The study was conducted by MIT Sloan School of Management and State Street Associates.

  • Mithali, Harmanpreet remain ODI  and T20 captains; Veda Krishnamurthy dropped December 21, 2018 05:40 PM IST

    Mithali, Harmanpreet remain ODI and T20 captains; Veda Krishnamurthy dropped

    India's tour of New Zealand is its first assignment since its semi-final exit against England in the Women's World T20

  • MIT develops new AI model which can detect depression from speech September 06, 2018 05:06 PM IST

    MIT develops new AI model which can detect depression from speech

    Researchers at MIT have created a new neural network model that is capable of detecting signs of depression in individuals based on how they talk.

  • US delegation in North Korea to arrange Singapore summit: Donald Trump May 28, 2018 07:58 AM IST

    US delegation in North Korea to arrange Singapore summit: Donald Trump

    Trump is scheduled to have a summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim in Singapore on June 12. Last week, he had suddenly cancelled the meeting after North Korean statements in which they threatened not to attend the summit.

  • Glow in the dark plants developed by MIT engineers December 15, 2017 06:35 PM IST

    Glow in the dark plants developed by MIT engineers

    While there have been earlier instances where genetically engineered plants have been made to glow, it had several drawbacks including a highly complicated process resulting in a low amount of light.

  • Car emissions can now be converted into fuel, thanks to a brilliant invention by MIT researchers November 30, 2017 03:27 PM IST

    Car emissions can now be converted into fuel, thanks to a brilliant invention by MIT researchers

    The scientists seem to have devised the craziest method so far that was perhaps not even imaginable: take the pollution and emissions and turn it right back into usable fuel

  • India today is land of opportunities like US: Srikanth Bolla November 21, 2016 09:15 AM IST

    India today is land of opportunities like US: Srikanth Bolla

    "The good news is, things are very different now. If you are willing to brave the bureaucratic hassles, India today is the land of opportunities like the US," said Srikanth Bolla, the CEO of Bollant Industries.

  • Large cos, not varsities, new startup garages: Mahindra April 18, 2016 05:17 PM IST

    Large cos, not varsities, new startup garages: Mahindra

    Large corporations, and not necessarily reputed tech schools like IITs or MIT, are the new startup garages as big businesses race to stay relevant, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra has said.

  • Toyota invests $ 1 billion in artificial intelligence in US November 06, 2015 03:28 PM IST

    Toyota invests $ 1 billion in artificial intelligence in US

    The investment, which will be spread over five years, comes on top of USD 50 million Toyota announced earlier for artificial intelligence research at Stanford and MIT.

  • Ratan Tata invests in Infinite Analytics August 31, 2015 08:18 PM IST

    Ratan Tata invests in Infinite Analytics

    The company will use these investments to beef up hiring, scale up operations and explore new verticals, it added.

  • India, US researchers clash over swine flu strain mutation March 13, 2015 03:31 PM IST

    India, US researchers clash over swine flu strain mutation

    H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, has killed more than 1,500 people in India this year, compared with 218 in 2014. India says the strain is the same as the one that killed an estimated 284,000 people in the global pandemic of 2009-10.

  • Online ratings can affect your judgement: Study August 10, 2013 11:36 AM IST

    Online ratings can affect your judgement: Study

    The study co-authored by a researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) detailed a five-month experiment conducted on a major news-aggregation web site.