An Indian-origin associate professor at the University of California San Diego has come under scrutiny after a viral video showed him being confronted in an alleged online child predator sting. In the footage, Nisarg Shah is accused of attempting to meet someone he believed to be a 14-year-old boy for alleged sexual activity. San Diego…
The institute’s 14th convocation ceremony took the internet by storm, as it had all the ingredients of fun that made it an occasion to remember The graduating class of 2025 at IIT Ropar’s 14th convocation were in for a pleasant surprise as the director Prof Rajeev Ahuja, agreed to play along with the youthful mood….
The University of California, Los Angeles, reached a $6 million settlement with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor whose suit against the university argued it violated their civil rights by allowing pro-Palestinian protesters in 2024 to block their access to classes and other areas on campus. The settlement comes nearly a year after a…
Gita Gopinath, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will leave her post at the end of August to return to Harvard University, the IMF said in a statement on Monday. An Indian-born US citizen, Gopinath’s departure came as a surprise to some within the IMF and appears to have been initiated…
Police in Greece are searching for the killer of a University of California, Berkeley professor who was shot dead on July 4 while visiting Athens for personal reasons, including a custody hearing involving his children. Authorities are investigating the murder of Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, a renowned economist and marketing professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School…
NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has established a four-person fact-finding committee to investigate the self-immolation incident of a female student at a college in Balasore, Odisha, officials announced on Tuesday.The victim, a 20-year-old second-year B.Ed student at Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College, Balasore, set herself ablaze on July 12 outside the college gate during…
NEW DELHI: A woman professor was found dead with injuries at her residence in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur city on Friday morning.The police are investigating the case of the 55-year-old as a case of unnatural death.The deceased was identified as Pragya Agrawal, who was a professor at the Government Home Science College. Her body was discovered…
An Indian-American professor, Rajeshwari Iyer, has sparked a heated debate online after attributing the cause of the Air India crash, which resulted in the deaths of over 270 people, to India’s reservation policies. Iyer, who studied in India, posted a job announcement from the Airports Authority of India for air traffic control roles, with the…
Falguni Dey, a Kolkata-based geography professor stranded in Tehran, on Monday evening embarked on a dangerous journey to Astara in Iran’s Gilan province bordering Azerbaijan in a bid to escape Israeli missile attacks, reports Rohit Khanna. Dey spoke to a travel agent on Monday and left the city in a car for a 1000km journey…
Eshan Chattopadhyay, associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, and David Zuckerman, professor of computer science at the University of Texas, have been awarded the 2025 Gdel Prize for their research paper, “Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions”. The paper showed how to turn two poor-quality random sources into one strong, reliable one—key for…