Nalanda: The university that changed the world
By Sugato Mukherjee More than 500 years before Oxford University was founded, India’s Nalanda University was home to 9 million books and attracted 10,000 students from around the world. Founded in 427 CE, Nalanda is considered the world’s first residential university, a sort of medieval Ivy League institution home to 9 million books that attracted [...]
HRM diplomates skilled future leaders: CIPM
CIPM, leader in HRM, shoulders task of developing motherland by guiding youth towards success, says Ken Vijayakumar, CIPM President. The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) conducted the certificate awarding ceremony of the Diploma in Professional Human Resource Management (DPHRM) on January 28. Addressing the diplomates, Mr Vijayakumar emphasised the importance of working with passion, [...]
Quad ministers reiterate commitment to peace, stability in Indo-Pacific region
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi compares Quad to The Beatles By Mandira Nayar John, Yoko, or Paul? Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov firmly believes that the Quad is “openly aimed at ruining East Asia” with meets and summits “minus-ing Russia and China”. However, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi thinks that the grouping of Australia, Japan, [...]
Beware of billionaires with political links
India these days is spoken of in terms of billions. The population is now around 1 billion-plus something and it is anticipated that at any moment a newborn Indian baby’s squeal to the world would announce that India has overtaken China as the most populous nation on planet Earth. India’s economic growth rate is spoken [...]
Popping China’s balloon
By Joseph S. Nye, Jr., exclusively for the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka When US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, met in Bali last November, they agreed to hold high-level meetings to establish “guardrails” for the Sino-American strategic competition. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was scheduled to visit Beijing to [...]