NEW YORK: While the contribution of skilled immigrants to America's technology and engineering startups has been recognized for the past decade as critical to the emergence of many of America's most entrepreneurial companies and huge,

NEW YORK: An impressive 75 percent of foreign corporations with investments in India are making profits, according to 'The India Factor', a report released by Societe Generale Bank, one of the largest financial services group in Europe.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will be hosting a Global Conference (June 22-24) in Santa Clara just around its centennial. It was formed in 1908 following Jamsetji N. Tata's visionary idea of "a premier institution of advanced studies in science and technology". IISc has richly fulfilled that vision as the premier postgraduate research focused institution in India.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a Rs 25,000 crore plan for boosting farm sector growth by addressing the needs at the grass-root level during the next four years.

NEW DELHI: Which is India's No. 1 crop? Is it rice? Or wheat? Well, neither. The right answer happens to be milk. The country's milk production is estimated to have touched 100 million tonnes (mt) last year, which is higher than the estimated 92 mt for rice and 75 mt for wheat. In value terms, too, a kg of milk is worth more than what Indians pay for a kg of rice and wheat.