The director of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, V Kamakoti, has sparked controversy after making a remark about the "medicinal value" of cow urine, or gomutra. IMAGE: IIT-Madras......
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Palakkad (IIT-Palakkad) have introduced a pioneering method of generating renewable energy from human urine. IMAGE: Kindly note that this image......
'When manufacturing or even services cannot generate the kind of employment they are looking for, they prefer to be unemployed rather than under-employed.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in the United States for a three-day state visit, has gifted an eco-friendly lab-grown 7.5 carat diamond, placed in Kashmir's exquisite Papier mache box, to......
Three million people in India are at risk of flooding caused by glacial lakes, the highest number of those exposed in the world, according to new study. IMAGE: The Neeti valley in the Himalayas.......
The government has granted Geographical Indications (GI) tag to various products, including Gamosa of Assam, Tandur Redgram of Telangana, and an apricot variety of Ladakh. The commerce and industry......
'Electronic media splash sensational headlines of the bulb prices about to cross the three-figure mark and focus on customers looking longingly at baskets full of onions, bemoaning their misery......
India's wholesale price-based inflation is at a 30-year high, leading to a "very alarming" situation for the country, former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu said on Thursday. He, however,......
A recent report by ACNielsen (Shopper Trends, October 19, 2006) paints a rosy picture of an emerging retail boom in India, "with one modern store for every 400,000 population" at present.Among the......
Islam A 'Isi' Siddiqui has been nominated by US President Barack Obama to be the Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the US Trade Representative Siddiqui, in his new role, will now......
Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sharad Pawar strongly supported coach Greg Chappell in the ongoing controversy triggered by the latter's remarks on parliamentarians, and accused......