Havana: Cuba’s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, Fidel Castro, has died aged 90, state TV announced on Saturday. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century before handing over the powers to his brother Raul in 2008. Here
New Delhi: In a transformative attempt to weed out black money and corruption from public life, the Government of India has constituted a Committee of Officers to enable 100 per cent conversion of Government – Citizen Transactions to the digital platform. The Committee, under the
Addressing IIMB students bound for Tel Aviv, Consul General of Israel urges them to identify technology opportunities and forge strong bonds “In India companies are big and people know how to manage huge companies. That is why we are looking at better relations with India,
NASA successfully launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the first in a series of highly advanced geostationary weather satellites Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) lifted off at 6:42 p.m. EST (5.12 a.m.
Last year, HSBC’s GSC in Kolkata received the award from NASSCOM, the trade association for the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry, for the ‘Highest Percentage Female Employees in IT/ITES’ for the third consecutive year HSBC has announced that it has set a target that 100
MoU signed for #StartInCollege Silicon Valley Programme for college students. Mentor to help startups in top institutions like IIT Kanpur, IIT-BHU, IIM Lucknow New Delhi: Sanjay Vijayakumar, Chairman of Startup Village which is fostering a culture of entrepreneurship among college goers across the country through mentorship and industry support, has
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says Japan is a benchmark of quality, excellence, honesty and integrity, during his much hyped visit to Japan. I am delighted to visit this great country once again. Over the years, I have visited Japan several times. Indeed, my personal
Self-driving scooter demonstrated at MIT complements autonomous golf carts and city cars by Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by
Providers and patients drive health care spending in roughly equal amounts, study shows by Peter Dizikes, MIT News CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In Miami, health care providers spent about $14,423 per Medicare patient in 2010. But in Minneapolis, average spending on Medicare enrollees that year was $7,819,
Antimicrobial peptides can kill strains resistant to existing antibiotics by Anne Trafton, MIT News Office CAMBRIDGE, MA — Over the past few decades, many bacteria have become resistant to existing antibiotics, and few new drugs have emerged. A recent study from a U.K. commission on