Dutta will succeed Joseph Thomas, who is stepping down after a five-year term as dean. The appointment comes into effect from July 1, 2011.

When Mohnish Pabrai was a child he was lucky enough to attend an elite private school in his hometown of Mumbai, India. For several years, he sat next to a classroom window that overlooked an immense slum that flooded during monsoons and blistered in the heat. Every day, he watched as the slum's inhabitants struggled with basic survival. Only 10 feet away from this destitution, young Pabrai felt ...

By Madhusree Chatterjee, New Delhi, Jan 24 : James Shapiro, the author of "1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare" and "Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare", wants to tour India and the rest of the world to see how the bard has been given life in fresh ways by different cultures.

The daylong event came to an end with a guest performance by DBL alumnus Samrat Sarkar. The latter is a playback singer who has performed in more than 900 shows across eight countries. "It was my school that made made me realise that I could sing," declared the proud ex-student.

— Clive Kessler The Malaysian Insider Feb 01, 2012 FEB 1 — Part 1: The personal quest Now back in Sydney yet again, after two more months in Malaysia, I sigh from both exhaustion and relief. Exhaustion, since as I age I find it ever more punishing physically just to get around Kuala Lumpur and [...]

Caroline Johnston Polisi, Former Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Graduate of Columbia Law School, Joins Boutique White Collar Litigation Firm, Creizman LLCNew York, NY (PRWEB) January 24, 2012 Creizman LLC is pleased to announce that Caroline Johnston Polisi has joined the firm as an associate attorney. Ms. Polisi will focus on representing clients in criminal ...

— A young woman who left her mark on Guelph, will be heading to Oxford University in September on a $100,000 Rhodes Scholarship.

The fourth- and fifth-grade students participated in the Matthews Elementary annual Martin Luther

Here's a job most 27-year-olds never get: starting up a new university – from scratch. Like an Athenian at the dawn of Greece, Dhawal Sharma is converting 25 acres of farmland outside New Delhi worked by man and ox for millenniums into the kind of marble-and-grass campus that launches odysseys of the mind.

UB Alert: Emergency text, e-mail messages. Sign up > UB Law School faculty member Rebecca R. French is spending the next six months in New Delhi, India, as a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher, furthering her landmark research on Buddhist legal traditions.