Delhi University, Pune University and five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are listed among the Top 100 universities in Asia as ranked by the latest QS Survey. The IITs are Bombay, Kanpur, Delhi, Madras and Roorkee. The two other IITs were ranked between 101 and 200, Kharagpur and Guwahati as was the University of Calcutta.
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Gunjan
Dr. Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress party was sworn in as India’s Prime Minister today, after the general election results of last week. Included in his cabinet were returning ministers Pranab Mukherjee (Foreign Minister), Sharad Pawar (member of alliance party NCP), A K Antony (former Defense Minister) and P Chidambaram (most recently Home [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Gunjan
One of the most luxurious hotels in central New Delhi is the The Imperial. Richard Branson had just pitched Virgin Media in the side lawn the previous night. Dr. Susan Hockfeld, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was visiting along with a bevy of her top Deans. MIT, like many top private universities [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Gunjan
Dr. Manmohan Singh’s United Progress Alliance (UPA) won 206 seats in India’s lower house of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and along and their “fourth front” allies have a commanding 285 seat majority in the 543 member body. The major constituent of the UPA is the Indian National Congress and its candidates did remarkably well at the [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2009 by Gunjan
The son of former BJP Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh was a contestant from the Barmer constituency. Manvendra Singh lost to the Indian National Congress candidate Harsh Chaudhary. And so it was in 19 of 25 parliamentary seats in the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan where the erstshile ruling Bhartiya Janata Party party was dislodged in [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2009 by Gunjan
