Education: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: 1754-1954

TO most New Yorkers, the advertisement that appeared in the Gazette one
day in 1754 was apparently not very exciting. The ad's announcement was
that a new College would be opened some time in July, but when the time
came for registration, only eight young men signed up. In those days,
the institution that was to become Columbia, fourth largest (25,000
students) and fourth richest ($113,589,957.37 in capital endowment) of
U.S. universities, had not a single building to call its own. About the
only thing it did have was a conviction: that "New York...After deep connect with Silicon Valley, PM Modi heads back to New York

San Jose: Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed from the Makkah of global technology, the Silicon Valley, leaving it rather impressed with his digital initiatives over a 36 hour whirlwind tour back to the citadel of global diplomacy and geopolitics in New York.

In the final engagement at the SAP Center, reminiscent of the grand reception he was accorded exactly a year ago at Madison Square Garden in Big Apple, Modi left after announcing a 'physical' connect between US's tech capital San Francisco and the Indian national capital New Delhi.

He announced a direct flight, twice a week, between the two cities from December 2 to be operated by India's flag carrier Air India. Modi, in fact, returned to