UAE: A Saudi educator known for his charity work and instructing prisoners won the USD 1 million Global Teacher Prize on Thursday. Mansour al-Mansour received the award at the end of the World Governments Summit in Dubai, an annual event that draws leaders from across the globe. Al-Mansour is also an author and is known for … Read more
UK schoolgirl wins silver for Team India – PC : Istock UK: A 17-year-old schoolgirl from London has won a silver medal for Team India in the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI) in the Netherlands, where the Indian squad registered its best-ever performance with 2 bronze medals and one honourable mention. Aanya Goyal, a … Read more
Ritesh Agarwal, who founded Oravel.com, a startup that provides an alternative to hotel stays in India, has bagged the $100,000 Thiel Fellowship for 2013. Agarwal, 19, born in Odisha, is the only Indian who has made it to the Thiel list of “20 under 20 years of age globally”. “Being part of Thiel Fellowship is … Read more
Three scientists from India, Germany and Russia won the 2012 Award for International Scientific Cooperation at China’s top science academy Wednesday, Xinhua reported. Indian professor CNR Rao from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Herbert Jaeckle from Germany’s Max Planck Society and Russian space physicist GA Zherebtsov shared the award for 2012, launched by the Chinese Academy of … Read more