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.

The three researchers of Indian-origin were Sanjay Vashee, Radha Krishnakumar and Prashanth P Parmar, who were part of the team led by Craig Venter.

Global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has appointed Salil Shetty, an Indian who headed the UN Millennium Campaign, as its next secretary-general

Now, Swiss scientists and PIT Solution, a little-heard of IT startup in Technopark in Kerala will be working on the Blue Brain Project, the world’s first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, reports Financial Express.

When she plays the piano she reminds you of the American actress Amy Irving from the 1980 film The Competition — fierce and focussed.