A 1962 Nobel Prize medal won by biologist James Watson for the discovery of the structure of DNA has fetched more than $4.7 million (Rs 29 crore), setting a world record for any Nobel Prize sold at......
''Hamas is going to be prepared. There will be booby traps and tunnels; it's going to be door to door fighting.' IMAGE: Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in......
Stanford University medical professor Abraham Verghese is getting ready for another bout of book tours, this time for his bestselling novel Cutting for Stone's paperback edition. The novel, set in......
Sixteen years since the bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square, China's grip on dissent has tightened under the leadership of President Hu Jintao, disappointing those who hoped he might represent a......
'Both empires had profound influences on modern India.''But neither can India's history be reduced to the actions of imperial rulers.''We need to think about India's history beyond India's current......
US e-commerce company Amazon says it is betting highly on self-publishing in India. This was a medium termed ‘vanity publishing’ till now. However, says Amazon’s New York-based......
TnQ never hit the headlines. At least not until Nobel Laureate (1975) David Baltimore as the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science spoke to a galaxy of American......
The request came in the form of an email from Anup Kurian, the Malayali filmmaker whose movie Manasarovar had won the best film award at the International Film Festival of Mumbai earlier this year.......
'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.''If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?''What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'......
Tagore and Victoria Ocampo met during Gurudev's visit to Argentina in 1924, and kept in touch until his death in 1941.Thinking Of Him reveals a little known part of the great writer's life. IMAGE:......