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Harvard University may be America’s top-ranked national university, along with Princeton University, in US News and World Report’s latest best colleges rankings, but a competitor across the pond is now stealing some of that thunder. For the second year in a row, the United Kingdom’s University of Cambridge topped Harvard in the U.S. News World’s ...
- Israeli universities ranked among world’s top 100 (Category: Business)
- Mustansir engaged and challenged at Valparaiso’s College of Engineering (Category: Business)
- Harnessing knowledge: Grassroots innovations for inclusive development (Category: Business)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
Reuters: Anyone hoping that recent falls in commodity prices would provide a boost to powerhouse Asian economies and help lift the developed world out of recessionary danger will be disappointed. The region’s focus remains firmly on inflation. Commodities from crude to corn have slid in the last quarter, with many showing the most dramatic losses ...
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
- Global slowdown silences Asia’s inflation hawks (Category: Business)
- S&P says Asia will pull through hard times (Category: Business)
- Eurozone crisis dampening developing Asia’s growth prospects, warns ADB (Category: Business)
With the World Bank announcing that the world economy is teetering on “a new danger zone,” it is of paramount importance for governments and financial power-houses to restore confidence through concrete policies and systematic financial planning. This is the order of the day, given the recent pessimistic report on the world economy delivered by Morgan ...
- IMF Chief Lagarde emphasises Asia, China role in global recovery (Category: Business)
- Global economy’s ‘timid’ recovery faces high risks: Lagarde (Category: Business)
- Global growth worries dent Asia business sentiment in Q3 (Category: Business)
- China can easily boost consumtion to strengthen its economy: IMF (Category: Business)
‘Remember your humanity’ is a phrase that was made famous by the Russel Einstein manifesto issued on 9 July 1955. This document is considered as the final major document that Albert Einstein signed before his death in 1955 and is quite a famous statement. The whole idea of issuing this statement has been to indicate ...
- Small is beautiful! (Category: Business)
- SMED seminar on managing electrical energy of business enterprises and industries (Category: Business)
- Viable alternative renewable sources - Solar, wind, wave, geo thermal, bio mass (Category: Business)
- Austere ways to avoid crisis (Category: Business)
DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, and Blue Dart, part of the DHL Group, are piloting Smart Truck technology in Bengaluru, India, the first deployment of this successful logistics innovation outside Germany. Created by DHL Solutions & Innovations (DSI), the DHL Smart Truck is an “intelligent” pick-up and delivery vehicle that combines a number of ...
- Preckwinkle criticizes Dart on payroll (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Emanuel and Dart walk into a bar... well, a nightclub (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Dart: Teen's killing 'as cold as you want to hear' (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Feds, retailer recall deadly dart sets (Category: USA, Illinois)
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing. --Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe Looking again and again at that which cannot be looked at, Unseeable reality is seen just as it is. --Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, Mahamudra Aspiration Prayer The firs...
- Buddhist Sex Abuse: Scandal Has U.S. Buddhists Looking Within (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddhism And The Fate Of The Species (Category: Features)
- Kevin Griffin: A Buddhist Approach To Recovery: Step Four -- Searching And Fearless (Category: Features)
- Katherine Marshall: Monks as Social Workers: How Buddhism Helps Development (Category: Features)
By Dr. S. Narapalasingam The current moves of the powerful government in post-war Sri Lanka are mainly for sustaining the wartime military strength, preventing the resurrection of the smashed LTTE and developing the infrastructures, notably the roads and rail network,...
- Pro-poor growth and Economic growth in Sri Lanka - A critical analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Lions’ and the ‘Tigers’ of Sovereign Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “Connecting People to Prosperity” in Sri Lanka. A reality check with “Mahinda Chinthanaya” (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Are The Structural Changes Necessary? (Category: Breaking News)
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Sri Lanka’s decision to set up a 1,200MW nuclear power plant by 2025 is expected to be the single largest investment in the country. The nuclear power plant is aimed at generating cheap electricity to address the increasing demand while drawing large investments to boost the country’s economy. The Cabinet of ...
- Environmental concern over nuclear plans (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sticks to nuclear energy hopes even after Fukushima disaster (Category: Breaking News)
- Environmentalists slam Sri Lanka's nuclear power plant plans (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB takes nuclear aim (Category: Breaking News)
Tweet bundle ~ from a live update of The Institute of Policy Studies Seminar, reviewing SL-India Free Trade Agreement May24-25: IPS just kick-started 2 day conference on "10 yrs since the Indo-SL Free Trade Agreement" Sarath Amunugama (Dep Finance Min),...
- Tapping Indo-SL synergies (Category: Business)
- SL Not Keen On CEPA (Category: Breaking News)
- SL – India trade to reach US$ 4 billion under the FTA (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian FM To Visit SL (Category: Breaking News)
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