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Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Writer, historian Patrick French dies after battle with cancer

Award-winning British author, historian and academic Patrick French, best known for his biography of VS Naipaul, The World Is What It Is, and India: A Portrait, died in London on Thursday after a......

RSS weekly weighs in: Same sex marriage not part of Bharatiya culture

The RSS-inspired weekly Organiser has come out against granting legal validity to same sex marriage, an issue being heard by the Supreme Court, and argued that the Indic perspective should be......

Saw White House from outside: Modi recalls US visit decades ago

President Joe Biden on Thursday said India and the United States should work and lead together given the challenges and opportunities facing the world, as he accorded Prime Minister Narendra Modi a......

'Eating salads, gardening keep lung cancer at bay'

A new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has found that salad intake and gardening substantially reduces the chances of developing lung cancer for......

Smoking? Nations lose over $30 billion a year

Love for nicotine is weighing heavily on developing nations with top ten smoker countries losing more than $30 billion annually which is more than 6.5 per cent of their gross national income. 1.......

The world's heaviest-smoking countries

Thanks to celebrity activism and widespread media attention, HIV, malaria and starvation are well-known diseases of the third world. But there's another resource-draining plague afflicting these......

MPs, health officials spar over tobacco pack warnings

Some questions cited concerns that larger warnings can hurt tobacco farmers and boost illicit trade. A parliamentary panel reviewing whether to put larger health warnings on cigarette packets has......

Cancer drug prices highest in US, treatment expensive in India

The lowest drug prices were found in India and South Africa. But after calculating price as a percentage of wealth adjusted for the cost of living, cancer drugs appeared to be least......

When robots turn into surgeons

Doctors say robots reduce fatigue and give them greater precision. IMAGE: Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Xi robot-assisted system is integrated with a patient operating room table that can be......

Maja Ma Review: A Damp Squib

Madhuri Dixit's brief seems to have been to look glamorous, which she does, while others struggle to hold the film together, observes Deepa Gahlot. Here's another film competing in the wokeness......

Now, you can wear Sunny Leone's sexy lingerie! Here's how!

Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrites are tweeting. As part of the movie promotions, the makers of Jism 2 tweeted that they will auction Sunny Leone's sexy lingerie, which was......

Widow of Christopher Reeve is dead

Dana Reeve, who announced in 2004 that she had lung cancer, is no more.First Christopher Reeve, who the world will always remember as Superman. Now, his wife. Dana Reeve, 44, has died of lung......

'I don't need Tabu to sell Bhaggmati'

When Ashok Kaul directed Paramvir Chakra in 1994, he started a new wave of war epics. His new film, Bhaggmati: The Queen Of Fortunes,is on the verge of revolutionising the way we perceive different......

The TOP HIGHLIGHTS: Oscars honours Irrfan

IMAGE: A TV grab of Irrfan being honoured at the Oscar ceremony. The 93rd Annual Academy Awards paid tributes to various artists across the globe, who passed away last year, for their significant......

Lance Armstrong: Living strong

Lance Armstrong's brand seems to be growing and expanding despite all the controversy surrounding the American cyclist,writes Desh Gaurav Chopra Sekhri On August 23, 2012, Lance Armstrong decided......

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