Ambassador Arun K. Singh, deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of India to the United States in Washington, D.C., will speak at Indiana University Bloomington on Friday, Oct. 23.

Under a joint research and book project undertaken by the IU Center on American and Global Security and the India Studies Program, two professors at IU Bloomington have addressed a gap in literature on counterinsurgency. Professors Sumit Ganguly and David P. Fidler have addressed this gap by co-editing and contributing chapters to a new book, India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned.

Indian President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented IU Professor Sumit Ganguly with one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon an Indian living abroad, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award.

Today (Dec. 5), the U.S. Labor Department released statistics showing that employers cut 533,000 jobs in November, which was the most since 1972. Bill Witte, associate professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Econometric Model Research at Indiana University, is available to offer some perspective.

Today (Nov. 26), terrorists conducted coordinated attacks in India's commercial capital, Mumbai, targeting at least two five-star hotels, the city's largest commuter train station, a historic movie theater and a hospital. Two experts at Indiana University are available now to offer their perspectives.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will again take a group of honors students to one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and they're inviting others along through a new blog, "Kelley Takes You to Incredible India."

A new book co-edited by an IU professor marks the 60th anniversary of India's independence and subsequent transition to democracy. The State of India's Democracy is receiving major attention as it is release in India this week.

A new book co-edited by an IU professor marks the 60th anniversary of India's independence and subsequent transition to democracy. The State of India's Democracy will receive major recognition when it is released there next week.

Several journalists and scholars with decades of experience writing and reporting on Asia will participate in a conference at Indiana University Oct. 22-23, "Reporting India," which examines American media coverage of the world's largest democracy over its 60-year history.

Two initiatives this week by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University demonstrate that its faculty and students see themselves playing an important role in India's future. Kelley School Dean Daniel C. Smith will be visiting government ministers and senior administrators at companies and universities across India during a seven-day trip there. M.A. Venkataramanan, chair of the undergraduate program, also will be leading a group of about 60 sophomore honors students there.

Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in economics, will visit Indiana University Bloomington on Sept. 19-21 and will deliver two public and free lectures sponsored by the William T. Patten Foundation.