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Stanford University signs MoU with World Peace Center in Gurugram for 'peace education' | Video
India | Aug 31, 2025, 10:04 PM ISTWorld Peace Center founder Acharya Lokesh hailed the Stanford agreement as 'historic', saying it would become a milestone in global peace efforts.
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Digital University Kerala professor in Stanford varsity’s list of top 2% scientists
Education | Oct 26, 2021, 01:09 PM ISTSix members in the Board of Studies of Digital University Kerala too are on the list of top 2 per cent scientists, it said adding Dr James has featured in two lists prepared by Stanford – Elsevier based on the career-long data and single-year impact
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Scientists detect light from behind black hole
Science | Jul 29, 2021, 06:36 PM ISTThe team at Stanford University noticed an intriguing pattern while watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away.
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UP student secures free pass to Stanford University
India | Jun 10, 2021, 11:14 AM ISTComing from a poor background where his father toiled as a salesman, struggling to fulfill the basic necessities of the family, Manu is the only child. Manu was able to secure admission to VidyaGyan, where only 250 students are selected out of the approximate 250,000 applicants every year.
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36 IITians named in world's top 2% scientists' list by Stanford University
Career | Nov 14, 2020, 07:13 PM ISTAt least 14 scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Banaras Hindu University have figured among the top two per cent scientists in a global list compiled by the prestigious Standford University.
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E-cigarette use may increase heart disease risk: Study
May 28, 2019, 12:04 PM ISTThe severity of the damage, aspects of which occur even in the absence of nicotine, varies among popular flavours, the researchers said. Cinnamon and menthol were found to be particularly harmful.
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A Muslim teen gets into Stanford after writing ‘BlackLivesMatter' for 100 Times
Mouthful | Apr 05, 2017, 06:46 PM ISTIn an unbelievable incident, a Muslim teen from Princeton, New Jersey successfully made a place in Stanford University with his unusual response to his job application.
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My work with Digital India will silence my critics: Ankit Fadia
Oct 16, 2015, 03:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: Ankit Fadia, one of the brand ambassadors for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Digital India" campaign, is controversy's child. Yet, the 30-year-old ethical hacker believes that it is not possible to be successful without
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Bug reveals how popular you are on Facebook
Oct 15, 2015, 06:05 PM ISTNew York: A bug that infected Facebook's mobile website let users see view counts for their own and others' posts throughout the social network, The Verge reported.Similar to how Facebook displays the number of views
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Narendra Modi will be first Indian PM to visit Silicon Valley in last 33 years
National | Aug 10, 2015, 06:25 PM ISTWashington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his upcoming visit to Silicon Valley in September, will address Indian Diaspora.Prime Minister Modi is likely to speak at prestigious Stanford University as well although there is official confirmation
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Indian economy has potential to grow at higher rate: Arun Jaitley
Dec 16, 2014, 07:53 AM ISTNew Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said India has the potential to grow at a higher rate even at a time when the world economy is going through a critical phase."The world economy is
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Indian-American scientist appointed as US Science Envoy
World | Dec 05, 2014, 09:01 AM ISTWashington: A top Indian-American scientist from Stanford University has been appointed as one of the Science Envoys of the US.Arun Majumdar, a professor at the prestigious university, along with three others Peter Hotez, Jane Lubchenco
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A camera, strapped like a watch, flies like a drone, coming soon
Lifestyle | Nov 04, 2014, 05:38 PM ISTNew York: Brace up for cool flying selfies as researchers have developed what could be the world's first wearable drone that can fly high to take your photographs.This flying camera called Nixie straps on like
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Better toilets may not mean better health in India: Study
World | Oct 10, 2014, 05:16 PM ISTWashington: The world's largest sanitation initiative which provided almost 25,000 individuals in rural India with access to toilets did not reduce exposure to fecal pathogens or decrease the occurrence of diarrhoea or child malnutrition, a
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Indian-origin Stanford professor wins top US award for science
World | Oct 05, 2014, 09:26 AM ISTWashington: A 79-year-old Indian-American Stanford University professor is among 10 innovators to receive US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama for their contribution to the field of science.Pune-graduate and Padma Bhushan recipient
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15-Minute-Old Newborn Gets Pacemaker For Heart
World | Feb 16, 2012, 02:34 PM ISTSan Francisco, Feb 16: A tiny infant became one of the smallest-ever recipients of a pacemaker, undergoing the procedure just 15 minutes after being born, Stanford University announced.A team of doctors at the university's Lucile
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US Girls Joined At Chest To Be Separated
World | Nov 01, 2011, 12:18 PM ISTPalo Alto, California, Nov 1: Two-year-old twin girls who are joined at the chest and abdomen were undergoing final preparations Monday for a complex surgery at a California hospital that is meant to separate them.Doctors