What Modi proved by his Silicon Valley visit

'If such is the ambition to effect change, India is a platform where an innovation can be tested on a scale unavailable in most places.' 'To take the simplest example, where else are hundreds of......

#TrillionDollarBaby whizzes past Earth

Asteroid 2011 UW-158, an asteroid with 90 million tons of platinum core worth over five trillion dollars, hurtled past earth early Monday morning. The asteroid passed just 1.5 million miles from......

US polls: Indian American Ro Khanna concedes defeat

Indian-American Ro Khanna on Saturday conceded defeat after giving the seven-term Congressman and incumbent Mike Honda the toughest fight of his life for the Silicon Valley Congressional seat. The......

US midterm polls: Ro Khanna continues to trail, final result may take days

The California state secretary spokesperson told Rediff.com that there were still hundreds of mail ballots that need to be counted, and might take many more days for a final result to be......

Global surveillane tech market to touch $146bn in 2025

High-level intelligence collection will no longer be the preserve of government agencies alone, says Pranjal Sharma. *IMAGE: India is encouraging startups to work with defence organisations to......

The new avatars of India's best known entrepreneurs

Suveen Sinha finds out what the tribe of modern, internet entrepreneurs who no longer run their first start-ups are up to. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com On the evening of August 2, 2011,......

Trump tells tech leaders: 'There's nobody like you in the world'

The US president-elect met Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives -- CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk from Tesla, Larry Page and Eric......

Premji, Shiv Nadar in Forbes list of 100 richest tech tycoons

Microsoft founder Bill Gates with an estimated fortune of $78 billion heads the list Wipro chairman Azim Premji and HCL co-founder Shiv Nadar (bottom) are the only two billionaires from India in......

All Squads: Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup

The FIFA 2022 World Cup will kick-off in Qatar on Sunday, November 20. Here is a list of the 26-man squads playing in the quadrennial global football extravaganza.      ARGENTINA......