In September 2006 Seattle-based Kal Raman accepted a challenging assignment to design, develop and operationalise an online education supermall. On November 2 last year GlobalScholar.com offering a rain of products and services became accessible to the global public

Dr. Philip G. Altbach is Monan professor of higher education and director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, USA

With the onset of summer, what better time for hoisting backpacks and disappearing into the wilderness? An avid traveller and trekker, Srinidhi Raghavendra offers a list of the country’s top 10 trekking trails