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Umar Khalid completes 4 years in jail without trial
Rediff.com15 Sep 2024Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student and activist Umar Khalid has completed four years in jail after being arrested in connection with the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots.
Like Shloka Ambani's Recycled Dress? Vote Now!
Rediff.com3 Jul 2024She had worn it for a space theme party during Anant and Radhika's pre-wedding in London.
In Search For Planet Nine
Rediff.com23 Feb 2024Planet Nine, if it exists, is somewhere between 6-10 times the mass of Earth, and it may have an orbit that takes it around the sun once every 1,500 Earth years or more.
How Space Travel Can Unite The World
Rediff.com1 Sep 2023All progress in space should excite us and encourage us to be optimists about a better future for our planet and all of us, asserts Aakar Patel.
AWESOME Images Of The Heavens!
Rediff.com27 Jul 2022The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images of the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year!
India's Forever Debt To Bhabha, Sarabhai
Rediff.com22 Feb 2022Dr Bhabha and Dr Sarabhai didn't feel guilty for their ambitions; it was for those 'mad scientists' that India is a powerhouse -- both at the atomic level and in the vastness of space, observes Kumar Abishek.
2022: What's your numerology forecast?
Rediff.com1 Jan 2022Sanjay B Jumaani, India's leading astro-numerologist, makes his predictions.
What was Pratip Chaudhuri's crime?
Rediff.com23 Nov 2021The account turned bad before Chaudhari took over as SBI chairman and the asset was sold to AARC following an open bidding process, months after Chaudhari retired, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Out of this world! Jaw dropping entries in Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Rediff.com2 Jul 2021Thank heavens for these images! From a mesmerizing panorama of the aurora borealis in Iceland to a beautiful image of Comet Neowise, the Royal Observatory's annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has again produced some truly astounding images. Run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine and now in its thirteenth year, the competition this year received over 4,500 entries from around the world. The competition winners will be announced on September 16 at an online award ceremony, and displayed in London's National Maritime Museum that same month. Here's our favourite images from this year's batch.
The Indian-American leading NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Marsa
Rediff.com19 Feb 2021While she has been a member of the Perseverance Rover mission since the beginning at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, Dr Mohan has also been a part of various important missions of NASA. The Indian-American Scientist worked on projects Cassini (a mission to Saturn) and GRAIL (a pair of formation flown spacecraft to the Moon).
PHOTOS: The 'Great' Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
Rediff.com21 Dec 2020This is the first time in over 400 years that the two appeared so close to each other, though regular conjunctions take place every 20 years.
Is there Life Out There?
Rediff.com31 Oct 2020The presence of phosphine in Venus's thick atmosphere has revived the age-old question: Are we alone?
These photos from space will surely make you gasp!
Rediff.com22 Sep 2020If you want a reminder of just how gorgeous our universe is, then take some time to browse the winners of the 2020 Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. French photographer Nicolas Lefaudeux took the top prize with a tilt-shift perspective on the Andromeda Galaxy. The winning images are part of an exhibition opening on October 23 at the National Maritime Museum in London and have been collected into a book. Cue some truly innovative an unexpected captures of galaxies, nebulae, planets, the Moon and even SpaceX satellites.
Astrologers predict not much respite from Covid until Sept
Rediff.com30 May 2020Explaining the planetary position, Divya Bhojak, a noted astrologer from Toronto, said, the year 2020 is witnessing six eclipses including three visible in India. Many planets are turning retrograde, meaning an adverse effect for individuals, businesses and other aspects of life, she said.
The Ministry of Acronyms, Shlokas and Slogans
Rediff.com19 Apr 2020'This way, you'll maintain our glorious traditional values and get more efficient governance as well.'
What Chandrayaan-2 will do for India
Rediff.com22 Jul 2019'In a part of the world where the government tells people what not to eat and what slogans to shout and not shout, it is beneficial to develop a mentality that is science minded and therefore open-minded.' 'That is possibly why the space programme has always had support from all sides of the political divide,' says Aakar Patel.
In photos: Reliving the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Rediff.com19 Jul 2019Fifty years ago on July 20, 1969 with these words American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" E Aldrin made history by becoming the first human beings to set foot on another world -- the moon. It was an event that was watched by millions on television and one that remains etched in all our memories. Collected here are 17 images of that historic mission, a "giant leap for mankind".
CAT 2018: Will you score 100 percentile?
Rediff.com26 Nov 2018Two experts who took for the Common Admission Test this year, breaks down the paper for you.
What Bollywood wears to work
Rediff.com30 Jul 2018From bikinis to superhero spandex, it's all in a day's work for these film folk!
The one mythology lesson everyone in marketing must learn
Rediff.com23 Mar 2018Marketers are required to be more Sisyphus than The Vitruvian Man, says Bharat Bambawale.
What are Taapsee, Salman, Jacqueline up to?
Rediff.com15 Feb 2018Taapsee takes off her make up, Salman gets a date, Akshay gets flowers for his girls...
Is Elon Musk's Tesla in space the moon landing of our times?
Rediff.com9 Feb 2018And what happens next?
World's most powerful rocket soars toward Mars, with a Tesla roadster as payload
Rediff.com7 Feb 2018The rocket is the first step in Musk's ambitious dream to send humans to Mars and establish a colony on the planet.
10 Lucky Charms To Attract Fortune and Prosperity In Your Life
Rediff.com8 Jan 201810 Lucky Charms To Attract Fortune and Prosperity In Your Life
Cassini ends 20-year-long epic journey, sends stunning Saturn photos before plunge
Rediff.com15 Sep 2017No spacecraft has ever ventured so close to the planet before, NASA said.
10 Lucky Charms To Attract Fortune and Prosperity In Your Life
Rediff.com10 Aug 201710 Lucky Charms To Attract Fortune and Prosperity In Your Life
Looking at Carrie Fisher's life in pictures
Rediff.com28 Dec 2016Carrie Fisher, who made Star Wars character Princess Leia so popular, passed into the ages on December 28
NASA spots 'impossible' cloud on Saturn moon -- for second time
Rediff.com22 Sep 2016Located in Titan's stratosphere, the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colours the giant moon's hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.
The astronomy photos of 2016 are simply stellar
Rediff.com20 Sep 2016From captivating photos of Northern Lights, sparkling galaxies, the 'man on the moon' and more, photos taken by the winners of the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 competition are an absolute treat.
Planet 9 could DESTROY solar system in terrifying cosmic death dance
Rediff.com31 Aug 2016The further away and the more massive the planet is, the higher the chance that the solar system will experience a violent future.
Pics: Why are these hotties not on the ramp?
Rediff.com24 Aug 2016Round up of all the fashionable people we met off the ramp at the Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Fest 2016
Breaking 400-year-old tradition, women enter Shani temple's inner sanctum
Rediff.com8 Apr 2016Despite the trust's orders that men as well as women will not be allowed to enter the Shani Shingnapur temple here, around 100 men were on Friday seen storming into the inner sanctum of the holy place.
Arunachal Pradesh: Hindi, Hindu, Tribalistan
Rediff.com30 Jan 2016'The Congress, all these decades, worked on a slow Hindi-isation and Indianisation of Arunachal tribes. The RSS wants rapid Hinduisation,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Now, women seek entry into Mumbai's Haji Ali dargah
Rediff.com30 Jan 2016Several activists belonging to Muslim women groups held placards demanding entry for females into the sanctum sanctorum of the historic dargah, which receives hundreds of devotees everyday.
Shani temple issue: Fadnavis meets women activists
Rediff.com27 Jan 2016Fadnavis, who on Tuesday favoured a dialogue on the issue in the wake of a tense showdown, did not make any comment on the set of demands before leaving the venue.
Women activists' bid to enter Shani temple foiled, Maha govt to intervene
Rediff.com26 Jan 2016Ahmednagar police stopped the activists of 'Ranaragini Bhoomata Brigade' protesting against the alleged gender bias by the temple authorities, led by Trupti Desai, at Supa, about 70 km from the temple premises, foiling their bid to offer worship at the sacred platform.
9 facts you MUST know about Planet 9
Rediff.com22 Jan 2016Here's everything you need to know about Planet Nine.
Neptune-sized planet lurks at edge of our solar system
Rediff.com21 Jan 2016The planet, which is supposed to be far beyond the orbit of Pluto, is being called as 'planet nine' by astronomers.
Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane... it's five planets in a rare celestial dance
Rediff.com20 Jan 2016Pay attention skywatchers! Five of the planets in our solar system will align diagonally in the predawn night sky starting Thursday morning.
NASA reveals stunning images of blue skies on Pluto
Rediff.com9 Oct 2015The first color images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the a fine blue tinge.