Mumbai: Remembered specially for his exploits at the 1974 US Open where he knocked out then French Open champion and World No.4 Bjorn Borg, Indian tennis legend Vijay Amritraj couldn’t refrain from praising Sania Mirza for her consistency and dream run which has fetched her 10 doubles titles in 2015. The unstoppable duo of Mirza…
NEW DELHI: At his age, boys are just stepping into the fantasy world of Hogwarts and beginning to identify with the Wimpy Kid, but Reuben Paul has his eyes on the rain — the green code rain of The Matrix. The third-grader is already an accomplished hacker, app developer, cybersecurity expert and, not surprisingly, CEO…
The world’s largest professional network, Linkedin, launched Linkedin Placements on Wednesday, aimed at making graduating students across India easily find their first job. “Our conversations with students, placement officers and recruiters involved in campus recruitment point to an unmet need for efficiency and effectiveness,” said Ganesan Venakatasubramanian, head, engineering, Linkedin India in a statement on…
The department of education will start an online portal that would ensure transparency in the transfers of employees and put an end to the menace of corruption. According to a report in Press Trust of India (PTI), Minister of State for Education, Priya Sethi said, “To promote transparency and plug the menace of corruption in…
China is set to provide free senior high school education to more poor students to further escalate school enrolments, the media reported on Tuesday. Vice president of the National Institute of Education Sciences Zeng Tianshan pointed out that China’s senior high school enrolment rate is still lower than that in developed countries, China.org reported. “The…
The first reaction to electric scooters is usually that they might be good from the environmental standpoint, but aren’t as efficient as petrol-powered ones. But two IIT Madras graduates, Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain, are all set to change that perception. Ather Energy, the Bengaluru-based startup they founded in 2013, is making, “the best scooter…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The neighbourhood kids in Saji Thomas’s remote Idukki village used to call him ‘potten’ (idiot) and not just because, as children often cruelly do, he was born deaf and mute but because he was also constantly trying to piece together junk into something new. The 45 year-old ‘potten’ has come a long way. Thomas…
If you’ve ever used Facebook, you’ve probably been annoyed by your notifications filled with candy crush requests that you wish you could just flush down the toilet. In his latest meet and greet Townhall Q&A at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was presented with a question that has bugged users…
A four-legged robot built by Chinese researchers just walked 83 miles on a single battery charge, more than doubling the previous record for longest distance covered by a quadruped robot. Xingzhe (or “Walker”) No. 1 resembles the design of the Cornell-built Ranger robot that traveled 41 miles for the record in 2011: two pairs of…
Perhaps the world could do without a new Web browser. Google’s Chrome, despite being a resource and battery hog, manages to get the work done for most, while Windows 10 continues to help Microsoft Edge be the default browser for millions of users. Jon S. von Tetzchner, co-founder and former CEO of Opera, believes that…
