A guiding principle of Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom, is the recognition that knowledge knows no boundaries. The forging of international partnerships is central to the realisation of the University’s vision.
Queen’s delegates, on their recent visit to India, announced the expansion of the ‘Queen’s India Welcome Scheme (QIWS)’, a Scholarship Programme for select institutions in NCR including Amity University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) amongst others.
Queen’s India Welcome Scheme is designed to help develop research leaders of the future. Following the scheme’s expansion, 30 scholarships are now on …

Recently, I traveled to Rajasthan on a wedding where I was part of the few special guests invited for the same. We traveled by the Ranakpur Express to Rani in Jodhpur. The journey was a good 15 hours, starting at 3pm we reached the next day at 6am. Khimal is equidistance between Jodhpur and Udaipur. As is the case with many villages and small towns here in Rajasthan, they lie empty for the entire year except during festivals and marriage ceremonies.

Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd, the joint venture between the Future Group of India and Generali Group of Italy on Thursday launched Future Child Benefit Plan. The plan is designed to support the ambitious career dreams of a child thereby providing money at ‘the right time’ in the most critical stages in life. It further aims at providing the much-needed financial security in the child’s future.

German luxury car-maker Audi on Thursday launched its world’s most successful business sedan Audi A6 in the Indian market. The new Audi A6 starts at Rs. 38,57,000 (ex-showroom Mumbai) and offers a choice of four engines – 3.0 TFSI, 2.8 FSI, 3.0 TDI, 2.7 TDI – and six exciting colors: Aventurin Blue, Dakar Beige, Ice Silver and Oyster Grey are the new additions to the color range of the Audi A6 besides the successful Phantom Black and Ibis White.

Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Survey found that most (78 percent) women living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) have never participated in a clinical trial. Of these women, more than half (56 percent) were never invited to consider a clinical trial and one-third (30 percent) had not been recommended a clinical trial by their healthcare provider.

Consumer Experience Mobile Test program in India. The program measures wireless network performance for all national and select regional carriers in markets covering a population of nearly 100 million people across the country. The network quality of operators is measured on three parameters – Reliability, Coverage, and Audio Quality. Nielsen’s benchmarking study shows that most cities have a clear network-quality leader.

Slumdog Millionaire filmmakers announce £500000 funding of Plan in India, a child centered development organisation which has worked to improve the lives of children in India for 30 years. This donation will support Plan’s program in a slum community located in central Mumbai. The program focuses on early childhood care, education, health, water & sanitation and child protection. Through this support Plan hopes to reach directly to 2,000 families and 5,000 children.

Nokia on Wednesday launched the new addition to its E-series range, Nokia E75 in India, priced at Rs.26,299. Features of Nokia messaging is a service that opens up the third party email accounts – including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail – and is joined by Nokia’s corporate email clients, Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which provide direct access to over 90 percent of the world’s corporate inboxes as well.

The K12M is BS-IV compliant engine is another example of Maruti Suzuki’s commitment to take engine technology in India to the next level. This is in line with parent company, Suzuki Motor Corporation’s focus on maximizing the environmental benefits of fully proven technologies. For this, Suzuki is fully exploiting the know-how gained in over 50 years of compact-car production. K-series engine is the latest innovation coming from this focus. K series engines are not just fuel efficient but also low on CO2 emissions. The K12M engine further strengthens Maruti Suzuki¿s efforts for fuel efficient, green engine technology for customers in India.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has found a differentiator, besides Ram, to woo voters in the General Election 2009 – Information Technology, according to the April 15 issue of Dataquest. The party is leveraging its IT Savvy image, firmed up five years back, when it was in power at the Center, to reach the younger electorate.