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Health benefits: Medicare's costly doughnut hole
Rediff.com17 Oct 2008Seniors dread this time of year, when they run out of Medicare drug coverage and have to pay out of pocket. Some just stop taking their drugs.
Jhulan tops bowlers' rankings
Rediff.com16 Oct 2008Claire Taylor of England, India captain Jhulan Goswami and Australia's Lisa Sthalekar are on top of the world in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Women's Rankings which were launched in Mumbai on Thursday. Thirty-three-year-old Taylor spearheads a strong field of six England batters in the top 20 while fast bowler Jhulan leads the bowlers' chart and Sthalekar is just ahead of her team-mate Shelley Nitschke in the all-rounders' listing.
Iron Man's success story continues
Rediff.com15 Oct 2008Paramount Pictures which had a strong summer season -- with Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Kung Fu Panda -- is enjoying an extraordinary success with the multiple versions DVD sale of Iron Man. According to the box-office tracking The-numbers.com, the DVD sets grossed $93 million in North America in the first week.
Weird & wacky beauty treatments
Rediff.com5 Sep 2008Space-age light capsules, sake baths, and flesh-nibbling fish: today's health and beauty services are wackier than ever.
The top food myths busted
Rediff.com22 Jul 2008Think 'light' coloured olive oil is lighter in calorie content or eating carbs can give you love handles? Well, in that case you need a reality check, because all these notions are mere myths, say two Sydney-based dieticians. Read on to learn more.
Wimbledon: Past women's champions
Rediff.com20 Jun 2008List of Wimbledon women's singles champions since 1922.
Mithali Raj eyes World after conquering Asia
Rediff.com12 May 2008Asia Cup-winning captain Mithali Raj says her team is capable of dethroning world champions Australia in the next year's World Cup.
Discovery could treat spinal injuries, Parkinson's
Rediff.com19 Apr 2008Researchers have discovered that the human nervous system has its 'unit burst generator' to control rhythmic movements such as walking, a breakthrough which they claim could soon lead to treatments for spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's disease. The researchers targeted the segmented leech for their study as they have fewer and larger neurons, making them easier to analyse.
New York students take up cricket
Rediff.com10 Apr 2008Trinidad native John Mitchell dabbled in basketball and baseball after arriving in the United States at the age of 9. But it took the introduction of cricket at his New York school to find a sport he felt at home with. "I never got the hang of it," the 17-year-old says of baseball, even though, like cricket, it involves hitting a ball with a bat.
Episcopal Christians apologise to Hindus
Rediff.com26 Feb 2008The apology, tendered by Right Reverend J Jon Bruno, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, is arguably the first of its kind by a major Christian congregation, and was issued 'for centuries-old acts of religious discrimination by Christians, including attempts to convert them.'
Christ like a sadhu, Mother Mary in a sari
Rediff.com26 Feb 2008There are over 50 such ashrams in India where Christianity is presented as an Eastern faith. You will see Christ looking like an Indian sadhu, and Mother Mary picturised wearing a sari. Mother Karen has sojourned at several of those ashrams, particularly at Shantivanam Ashram, a Camaldolese Benedictine community made famous by its former prior, Bede 'Dayananda' Griffiths.
Of stock market investments and health
Rediff.com19 Feb 2008Does full-time share trading show poor returns for health?
Of child labour and shattered dreams
Rediff.com12 Feb 2008That garden stone, handmade carpet or embroidered T-shirt you just bought was probably made by child labor.
Over 2 million foreigners working in UK
Rediff.com11 Feb 2008Over 2 million foreign workers are now working in UK, which is a 75%increase in foreign labour in the last 6 years.
Pak is doomed if Musharraf is back in power: Imran
Rediff.com26 Jan 2008Cricket legend-turned politician Imran Khan on Friday said that Pakistan is doomed for the next five years of dictatorship if President Pervez Musharraf comes back to power after the election slated for February 18.
Kelai, Seboka win Mumbai Marathon
Rediff.com21 Jan 2008Defending champion John Kelai of Kenya and twice winner Mulu Seboka won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Mumbai Marathon, while Ramsingh Yadav emerged the fastest Indian runner.
Tips on moving up the corporate ladder
Rediff.com11 Jan 2008Here's how to make sure the extra work can work for you.
Simply a case of giving back, says Sanjeev Mehra
Rediff.com18 Dec 2007Mehra recalled: "When I was at Harvard there was very little study of India and South Asia. There was a lot of study of China and Japan, but very little of South Asia. And given that one in four people in the world live in the Indian subcontinent, we felt it was important to shine the light on what was going on there."
First look: Rambo is back
Rediff.com28 Nov 2007Sylvester Stallone, 61, returns to the big screen in January.
India-born Harvard alumnus' gift to alma mater
Rediff.com17 Nov 2007New Delhi-born Sanjeev K Mehra, managing director and partner in the principal investment area of Goldman, Sachs & Co, where he leads the industrial private equity investing effort and is the key benefactor of the envisaged $4 million South Asia chair at Harvard University, says it is simply a case "of giving back".
India leading exporter of students to the US
Rediff.com12 Nov 2007The total of Indian students coming to the US this year was up by 9.6 per cent from the previous year, when the number was 76,503, and India dominated with 14.4 per cent of the total of 582,984 international students enrolled in American colleges and universities in the US in 2006/2007, which also increased by 3 per cent over the previous academic year.
Hillary extends Diwali greetings to Americans
Rediff.com2 Nov 2007The New York lawmaker, who is the co-chair of the Friends of India Caucus in the US Senate, said in her missive conveying greetings that 'Diwali is an annual festival of lights signifying universal love, peace, giving and caring. The glitter and splendor of lights which illuminate the dark sky on this day symbolizes the brightness of the future.'
Burma and Tibet: The world's double standards
Rediff.com16 Oct 2007The moral of the story is that it is a world upside down, where not everything that appears evident and true is necessarily noble
'The keywords of cooking today - 'speed' & 'easy''
Rediff.com1 Oct 2007Top food consultant Karen Anand chats about her new book 'Simple Cooking for the Desperate Housewife' and how you can go from drab cooking to fab cooking in your own kitchen.
Going after the rich. . .
Rediff.com11 Sep 2007After decades of selling to the middle class, a clutch of companies is now going after richer customers as well.
Do you suffer from 'email stress'?
Rediff.com14 Aug 2007A study has found that struggling to cope with a deluge of emails is leaving staff tired, frustrated and unproductive.
Hackers deface UN website
Rediff.com14 Aug 2007The perpetrators appear to have used a well-known and highly preventable technique called SQL injection, which takes advantage of flawed database programming to activate malicious lines of code.
Now 'email stress' hits office workers
Rediff.com13 Aug 2007Researchers from Glasgow University and Paisley University in the United Kingdom have found that struggling to cope with a deluge of e-mails is leaving office staff tired, frustrated and even unproductive.
Canadian govt dumps immigration rule against Singh
Rediff.com27 Jul 2007On July 25, Ottawa said they are reversing their 10-year old policy and in future there won't be any objection to Singh and Kaur as last names, despite the fact these are too common names.
Ultra-lavish corporate picnics
Rediff.com25 Jul 2007Forget sack races and Slip 'n Slide. These days select companies are adding luxe touches to their annual employee outings.
Canada emigration: Kaur, Singh please excuse
Rediff.com24 Jul 2007Tarvinder Kaur, who is pregnant, said her husband Jaspal Singh's application to become a permanent resident has been delayed for well over a month because of his last name.
MCC stamp on India's 75th Test anniversary
Rediff.com21 Jul 2007The Marylebone Cricket Club, in association with the Bletchley Post Office, released a special stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of India in Test cricket.
The Grudge 2: Scary but predictable
Rediff.com20 Jul 2007The Grudge 2 continues where the first one left off.
India, China to account for 86% of M&As: PwC
Rediff.com18 Jul 2007The growth in M&As is likely to gather steam as firms within the region and and outside are looking to Asia as the home for growth, it said.
Secret to finding work-life balance
Rediff.com19 Jun 2007If you're working 100 hours a week and haven't seen sunlight in months, listen up. Top business leaders share their advice for finding that coveted work-life balance.
Temptation buys HUL's marine foods business
Rediff.com11 Jun 2007Mumbai-based Temptation Foods has acquired the marine foods business of FMCG major Hindustan Unilever for an undisclosed sum.
Sharath Kamal, Mouma in singles QF
Rediff.com4 Jun 2007Achanta Sharath Kamal was the only Indian to survive the second round heat in men's singles.
Zoellick may become new World Bank chief
Rediff.com29 May 2007Former US Trade Representative and US Deputy Secretary of State, Robert B Zoellick (53), is said to be the frontrunner for the post of the next World Bank president, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Temptation Foods buys Karen Anand's brand
Rediff.com29 May 2007Temptation Foods, a Mumbai-based fruit and vegetables export company, has acquired 100 per cent stake in Karen's Gourmet Kitchen (KGK), a foods brand managed by leading food critic, Karen Anand.
NRI entrepreneur flays NYT over 'smear campaign'
Rediff.com28 May 2007The CEO of infoUSA says the NYT article is a 'hatchet job' to embarrass Hillary Clinton and is motivated by the newspaper's support for Obama.