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Who's running the World?

Who's running the world? A famous person said that the measure of a society is how it converts its pain and suffering into something meaningful and useful. India has done that through the remarkable success of its overseas managers.  Indians are rightly jubilant with the overseas success of their compatriots, for example, when Nitin Nohria was appointed Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS); or earlier, when Subra Suresh became Dean of MIT or when Arun Sarin and Vikram Pandit rose to the top of their companies. The positive emotion often has a trace of India Rising. The achievers are humble about their success they are as follows - 1. *" Google "* CEO is an... *"Indian"*. 2. *" Microsoft "* CEO is an... *"Indian"*. 3. *" Citigroup "* CEO was an... *"Indian"*. 4. *" SoftBank Vision Fund "* CEO is an... *"Indian"*. 5. *" Adobe "* CEO is an... *"Indian"*. 6. *" NetApp "* CEO i...

New trend in the growing number of applications of Indian students in global universities!

 New trend in the growing number of applications of Indian students in global universities inspite of corona outbreak proves to be a boon for many top abroad universities There is no doubt that the Coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on college admissions especially to business schools across the world but also leaving a positive impact. Especially when it comes to abroad study applications. After this pandemic, studying in USA and other countries will have new outlook with the new president, the world looks very promising. This pandemic has lead to a rise in various abroad study applications. Global pandemic might have resulted in economies collapsing, jobs being lost, furloughs being extended, but the Global Higher Education seems to have survived this uneventful year. 2020 could have been the perfect year for Indian students who were planning to study abroad, but the pandemic did play the spoilsport. But even with the prevailing uncertainties there is still a rise in the numb...

UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

 UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Doudna is the first woman on the Berkeley faculty to win a Nobel Prize. She and Charpentier also became the first women in history to win a Nobel in the sciences together. Last week, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry announced that this year’s chemistry laureates are Jennifer Doudna, a former Yale researcher, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, a Berlin-based biology researcher, for their development of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technique. Doudna conducted some of her groundbreaking work at Yale in the field of structural RNA before moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, where she is now a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology.  According to the Nobel Prize website, Doudna started collaborating with her co-laureate — Charpentier of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens — on the CRISPR-Cas9 system in 2011. Together, they discovered a novel mechanism for editing genomes which h...