'If Modi arrived like a juggernaut, he left like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces were being dismantled bit by bit. It was as if India had seceded quietly from him.' Shiv Viswanathan's social science fiction about what India would be like in 2020.
The euphoria of Ab Ki Baar Modi Sarkar will fade quickly if the Modi government does not raise its game, and focus significant monetary resources and managerial skills on making India's infrastructure truly world-class, says Ram Kelkar.
The consensus put Barack Obama ahead again in this final debate, not by much, but sufficiently to make it possible that he was the net leader of the three debates, writes Shreekant Sambrani
A recent article in The Daily Beast has rated the 25 best places across the US on nine parameters of import to young grads.
The year 2014 has been an eventful one for India. The country got a new government and a new state, broke new frontiers in various fields and of course its share of controversies.
Jury has awarded $1.9 million to Chandramouli Vaidyanathan in a wrongful employment case
Suman Guha Mozumder speaks to the Intel Science Talent Search finalists of Indian origin, and finds a common trait - they are all rooted in tradition while aiming for the stars.
PMG is co-owned by Sam Balsara, chairperson, Madison World, and Noomi Mehta, chairperson and managing director, Selvel One Group.
All of 22 and straight out of college, Pavithra YS (pictured below) decided to make a difference and look what she's achieved!
Dani Alves has blamed the media for Brazil's unsuccessful World Cup campaign but conceded that the team did not prepare properly ahead of the humiliating 7-1 defeat by Germany in the semi-final.
'We are two countries that, as Swami Vivekananda said in Chicago more than a century ago, have sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations on Earth.' 'People are watching to wait and see if this Modi moment is going to be the moment when the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy finally capitalise on the full, inherent potential of this relationship.' Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from the State Department's lunch for Prime Minister Modi.
'It is vital we should form an international coalition against ISIS, because their brutality and the use of the Internet for jihadist activities is a reminder that the entire world community has to be in this together,' US Congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com in an exclusive interview ahead of Prime Minister Modi's visit.
SET Max, the official broadcasters of the Indian Premier League (IPL)cricket tournament, has already hit a sixer with the third edition of the twenty20 league. The channel is estimated to rake in over Rs 650 crore, 30 per cent higher than it got in IPL-2.
United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a $4 billion federal educational aid to encourage schools to develop globally competitive standards to help their students take on 'folks in Beijing and Bangalore'.
'The Modi-Xi and Modi-Obama meetings, with an interval of just 12 days, are juxtaposed superbly at a crucial point in the prime minister's life. Can Modi carve out a win-win situation with the superpower and the emerging superpower at the same time?'
In the first four months of this financial year, Indian Railways' (IR) earnings from commercial publicity have declined by 14 per cent over the corresponding period last year.
Two of the greatest modern exponents of yoga began their life in Mysore, under the tutelage of the legendary Krishnamacharya. For both of them, life was yoga. And yoga was life, says Sunaad Raghuram.
Substantially cutting calories from the diet could slow the ageing process and increase life expectancy, according to a decades-long study of monkeys.
Sir Elton John will headline an April 9 fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. The event is called Elton And Hillary: One Night Only.
Termed AiroCide, the technology is supposed to eliminate 99.9 per cent of all air-borne micro-organisms, bacteria and pollutants.
Sania Mirza was dumped in the first round of the Ponte Vedra Beach championships in Miami on Monday by seventh seed Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine. The Indian ace lost 4-6, 3-6, even as 14-year-old American Madison Keys won on her WTA Tour debut, scoring a 7-5, 6-4 first round win over Russia's Alla Kudryavtseva.
World number one Serena Williams survived a scare to beat China's Li Na 4-6, 7-6, 6-2 on Wednesday and reach the Sony Ericsson Open semi-finals -- where she will meet her sister Venus.
Ten top South Asian engineering professionals working in North America and India were elected to the National Academy of Engineering this year, which is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
Akhil Mathew, an 18-year-old resident of Madison, New Jersey, on Tuesday night won the third place in the Intel Science Talent Search, America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition honouring the next generation of American innovators.
Akhil Mathew, an 18-year-old resident of Madison, New Jersey, Tuesday night won the third place in the Intel Science Talent Search
Television ad rates see steep rise, advertising pie expected to grow 10%.
The Madison-born actress has a small role in the political drama, Lions for Lambs starring (yes, you guess right) Robert Redford, Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep.
Budget to match that of smash-hit sci-fi Avatar, the most expensive movie made till date.
'He made three highly exaggerated statements. He said Pakistan is "enormous", it is strategically important not only for the US, but also for the world and that the people of Pakistan has tremendous potential.'
Raghu Ramakrishnan, a vice president at Yahoo!, has been awarded the 2008 Innovation Award by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for his significant technical achievements in the field.
Zohan is definitely not a movie I would recommend to anyone. And certainly not a film that deserves any ratings.
The three are Kaun Banega Crorepati 4 on Sony, anchored by Amitabh Bachchan; Bigg Boss 4 on Colors, starring Salman Khan; and Masterchef India on STAR Plus with Akshay Kumar.
Trai's latest proposal to cut ad inventory in channels has already prompted some of the leading broadcasters (Zee News being the latest) to cut their total commercial time and increase rates.
The Rs 21,000 crore (Rs 210 billion) media industry, which experienced a negative growth in the first half of 2009, is expected to grow by 65 per cent in the July-December period, a review on the industry said.
Twenty20 cricket is back again, but this time in an international avatar. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is expected to offer telecast rights for the Champions Twenty20 tournament in which domestic clubs from various countries will battle it out for top honours this September.
Madonna has been named as the cause for the collapse of Alex Rodriguez's marriage to wife Cynthia. According to the Timesonline website, the wife of baseball's highest-paid star filed for divorce on Monday blaming his 'soul mate' Madonna for the collapse of her marriage.
A scientist is adapting Indian and African road techniques to improve asphalt in various ways by developing cold mixtures that blend polymers or plastics with crude oil-derived asphalt.
Deepika Padukone, who made her Bollywood debut with Om Shanti Om last year, will lead the annual India Day parade in New York on August 17.
In this fifth part (see part one, two, three and four) of a series, rediff India Abraod discusses a different side of its analysis of the growing gun culture among Indian Americans.
World number one Roger Federer dismissed suggestions his career is in decline and said he would use recent defeats as motivation after recovering from a virus. Within two Grand Slam titles of Sampras's record haul of 14, Federer said his affection for tennis is greater than ever.
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