MIT freshman Saumil Bandyopadhyay’s invention has the potential to reduce car crashes and may also help detect hidden land mines and monitor global warming. Indian-American teenager Saumil Bandopadhyay has been selected for the prestigious Ingenuity Award for revolutionising nanotechnology that would upend industries ranging from automobiles to astronomy. MIT freshman Bandyopadhyay is among the 10 […]

Washington, Sep 29 (PTI): Robot brain! An Indian-origin scientist in US has developed a new feedback system that allows robots to operate with minimal supervision and could eventually lead to autonomous machines. The system may lead to robots that think for themselves, learn, adapt and use active critique to work unsupervised. Developed by Dr Jagannathan […]

Washington, Sep 27 (IANS): With his hand on the Gita and watched by family friend Gursharan Kaur, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife, Chandigarh-born legal luminary Sri Srinivasan made history as he became the first Indian American to be sworn in as a judge of what is often called the second most powerful court in […]

He’s been called the Warren Buffett of Canada — and rightfully so. But will Watsa’s golden stuff extend to the battered brand that is now BlackBerry? A sucker throwing good money after bad? Or a quintessential financial sharpie who can spot value where others only see a lost cause? In the coming months, we ought […]

He had to start working in a music shop repairing mridangam, tabla, etc, at the age of seven, not only because of his love for music but to help his mother keep the kitchen fires burning.

Dr. Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, a Patna-born child prodigy, becomes the youngest professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at the age of 22. He is set to join as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics from next week.

Even as the World Cup held people in thrall, an 18-year-old Delhi boy is hoping his home-built robots would be able to show off their football skills at a world championship called Robosoccer to be held September 15 to 19 in Bangalore.

From 50 paise, she now earns Rs 200,000 a day

After he won the National Geographic Bee and punched the air in jubilation, 13-year-old Aadith Moorthy, who lives in Park Harbor, Florida, confessed that he was expecting many more ‘dangerous’ questions.

Two Indian born Stanford graduate students have created a $3.99 application in the iPad. It is the top paid app in the entire iPad section of the App Store.The Pulse Reader app in the iPad was developed by Akshay Kothari (23) and Ankit Gupta (22) at the Institute of Design of Stanford University.