We need fresh perspectives to assess our financial vulnerability.
The OrcaPod is a prototype of what comes after boats, cars, trains and planes. It's India's foray into what Tesla founder Elon Musk calls the 'fifth form of transportation' and India's only entry at the ongoing Hyperloop competition by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
i-flex Solutions surged to an all time high of Rs 1,022 on the reckoning that the company will decide in favour of hiking its FII investment ceiling. \n\n\n\n
'The 'Off-with-Rajan's-head' brigade bases its arguments on mistaken beliefs, erroneous causalities, and even downright prejudice.'
Rajeev Srinivasan on how EVM problems are much bigger than technology or politics. Second and final part of the series.
In his address to the Harvard class of 2017, Thursday, he shared his Harvard memories and spoke about finding purpose and meaning in one's life.
If confirmed, Nancy Powell will be the first woman ambassador to India, but some have questioned if she would have the ear of the President unlike a political appointee. Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington DC.
Would she plan a pre-emptive strike against Iran? No she wouldn't, said Sonia Sarkar, who a few hours later was to learn that she had made the grade, as one of 60 students nationwide chosen for the 2008 Marshall Scholarships, entitling her to a $30,000 annual scholarship.
A slight variation of lactoferrin, known as talactoferrin alfa, helps fight lung cancer, according to research by Dr Atul Varadhachary, president and chief operating officer of the Houston-based Agennix.
Erstwhile Indian president A P J Abdul Kalam, will return to the United States for a second time in as many months, this time to celebrate his 76th birthday on October 15 by participating as chief guest in the JSS Spiritual Mission's anniversary celebrations in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Rashmi Bansal analyses the rationale behind the government's decision to open up more IIT and IIM institutes across the country.
English is no longer India's default business language, and companies ranging from Nokia to Google must reach consumers who speak 18 languages
Meet the US Attorney who took on Donald Trump.
More intensive use of the existing faculty and infrastructure is only a temporary remedy.
'My grandfather was a poor farmer who fought for democracy and freedom in India and who could have never dreamed that his grandson would have the opportunity to sit before you today and be considered for the position of Surgeon General,' Dr Murthy told a US Senate Committee
The urban design of Naya Raipur promises to incorporate the best of international cities as well as traditional Chhattisgarh culture.
Indian immigrants like Sai Gundavelli often arrive in the U.S. armed with scientific skills, a need to fund people at home -- and ambition.
Dr Kiran C Patel and Dr Pallavi Patel, both physicians and longtime residents of Tampa, Florida, have donated $12 million to the University of South Florida in a new endowment aimed at creating the Patel College of Global Sustainability, expanding on nearly a decade of world-leading applied research to advance sustainability around the globe and improve the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.
Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the New York Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, recalls, with both anguish and elation, the events of the last fortnight after the US President's order banning entry for people from seven countries was put in place.
Attacking the note ban move, Yechury said the PM's assertion that it will impact terror funding has not yielded any result.
Older job seekers benefit from experience but suffer from age discrimination. How to find your next job for the next phase in your life.
Smart cards and other access technologies can help the president-elect overhaul the nation's infrastructure.
Only reforms that accelerate economic growth can generate the revenues to finance expenditure on social infrastructure for the poor, not the other way round, insists Jagdish Bhagwati.
BPO expert Nasha Fitter suggests you join domestic BPOs.
The point of travel technology is to make life on the road easier. Except, of course, when it doesn't.
The permeating take-away by a high-powered American delegation of top-notch American educators and researchers from six major medical schools, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown, which recently returned from a study-tour of ayurveda in India, was the paucity of an evidence-based approach which is imperative if these ancient herbal remedies were to be incorporated in the US medical curricula.
In his plea to Congress, Gates emphasizes science education.
A veteran of many battles against the authority, Shourie, discusses philosophy, politics and policies in a freewheeling conversation with Mahesh Sarma, editor, Careers360.
It is imperative that India starts re-assessing its options and think clearly as to what India can do to preserve the balance of power in the Gulf region, writes Harsh V Pant.
Most people trying to decode the Bal Thackeray phenomenon tend to see him in either black or white probably because they want to arrive at a simple conclusion. I for one believe he was the curious combination of both, but mostly he was all in the grey area, writes Pramod Pagedar
Its increasing use opens a Pandora's Box of privacy issues and is unfairly skewed toward certain groups.
'You want a steady, confident, self-assured and highly skilful hand at the till. 'It is a pity that the BJP has decided to deprive itself of such a hand at this politically sensitive time.' 'It is like sacking your surgeon in the middle of your brain surgery,' says S Muralidharan.
'If the dimensions of the strategic partnership worked out by India and the US seem like a grand alliance targeted at you-know-who, China had better realise that it has fathered it,' says B S Raghavan, a long time observer of China.
'India is no longer the India of the '70s and the '80s.' 'It's a large country with the fastest growing economy.' 'In working with India, you just can't go and humiliate the nation publicly.' USIBC President Mukesh Aghi tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com about how he advises American companies to do business with India, what he thinks of Modi's government and the way forward for the India-US relationship.
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