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As British students protest the proposed tripling of tuition fees, Indian universities — Pune among them — are pitching themselves as the affordable

The one rule of wedding guest attire: complement, don't compete. Why the diva guest is the bride's worst nightmare — and how not to be one.

Indra Nooyi, Vikram Pandit, Sanjay Jha, Shantanu Narayen — by 2010 Indian-Americans led some of America's biggest companies.

A four-year-old's unexpected kiss after the worst day at work — and why parents keep coming back for more of the hardest job they will ever love.

Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.

Google's Hotpot brought friends' recommendations to local business ratings in November 2010. Another genuinely good Google social product that couldn't beat

Girls match boys in early math performance, then the STEM gap opens. The evidence says it is a social and structural phenomenon — not biology.

Your kid has a cold. Which remedies actually work? Honey, saline drops, fluids and rest — yes. OTC cold medicines for little kids — no.

Given a choice between cocaine and food, female rats choose the drug while males go for food. Estrogen, the UCSB researchers believe, is the difference.

In November 2010 Ratan Tata revealed a fellow industrialist had told him to pay a Rs 15 crore bribe for the Tata-SIA airline plan.

In India for Bigg Boss 4, Pamela Anderson wrote to PM Manmohan Singh calling on Indians to reject all leather products and end animal suffering.

The lonely, spoiled only child is a myth. Decades of research say only children are as happy and socially skilled as — sometimes slightly happier than —

A fully functional home in Tokyo, on a footprint of 8 square meters. What Japanese small-house design teaches about possessions and wellbeing.

Project Titan revealed: Facebook Messages — unified inbox, no subject lines, @facebook.com addresses. Zuckerberg said it was 'not an email killer.'

The Dance Your PhD competition asks researchers to explain their dissertations through interpretive dance — and it works better than it sounds.

Chinese acquisitions of Western firms make geopolitical headlines — but inside the acquired company, the experience is cultural and human before anything else.

Yogurt-marinated turkey, spiced gravy, cashew-and-raisin stuffing. Where Indian spicing genuinely improves Thanksgiving — and where it doesn't.

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.

Why Walmart's Black Friday loss leaders are always toys and electronics: the consumer psychology behind the world's biggest retail event.

In 2011 Google acquired a face-recognition startup — and then refused to ship the technology. The story of the one product Google held back.