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Indian student New Delhi: An Indian student is all set to begin her PhD course in Earth Sciences looking at climate change in the Indus Valley at the University of Cambridge , after being awarded a prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship in recognition of both her academic achievements and social leadership. Yama Dixit is one of 90 new scholars starting at the University later this month. The scholarship programme was established in 2000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to enable outstanding graduate students from outside the United Kingdom to study at the University . They are awarded on the basis of a person's intellectual ability, leadership capacity and desire to use their knowledge to contribute to society. Yama did not start studying the environment until her second year of undergraduate studies at Delhi University (DU) after she revisited the site of her earliest childhood memories of taking part in the religious ablutions in the river Ganges at Haridwar. ...

New Delhi: The University of Cambridge on Monday announced a new scholarship programme for Indian students in the name of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is also an alumnus of the university. "Through this initiative we want to emphasise that we want students coming to the university based on academic potential regardless of socio-economic means," Vice Chancellor Allison Richard told reporters here. Around 1.5 million pounds have been invested for supporting ten "Manmohan Singh undergraduate scholars". "The programme will provide full funding, covering fees and maintenance, for undergraduate study in any subject at any of the colleges that are a part of the university," she said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh graduated from Cambridge with a first in Economics in the late 1950s. The new scholarship programme will complement the three Manmohan Singh Scholarships that were launched for post-graduate students at Singh's former college - St John's Co...