There is and will be plenty written about Shirish Patel's achievements, his awards, his writing, his talks, the mark he left on this city he knew and understood so well. I know much of that,......
Planet 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. IMAGE: Kindly note the......
In the ancient world there is a great deal of give and take and reciprocal learning.India was an integral and important constituent of such interchanges of goods and ideas. A fascinating excerpt......
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said the "rights and sensitivities" of the minorities must be respected "in letter and spirit" to ensure every community is a part of the "national narrative",......
VISITING STUDENTS RESEARCH PROGRAMMEThe Tata Institute of Fundamental Researchoffers summer programs exposing academically bright students to research in many areas of theoretical and experimental......
When the Nobel Prize marked its centenary in 2001, the foundation asked a handful of laureates for two mementos each that might be included in an exhibit. "They took away my bicycle, on which I had......
The annual award includes a pure gold medal, a citation and a prize purse worth $ 100,000 or its equivalent in the Indian rupees. IMAGE: Addressing an event organised to announce the winners of......
Over home-cooked food, Rohan Murty tells Rahul Jacob he is fascinated by history and ancient texts, and about his efforts to measure productivity in software companies, such as Infosys. IMAGE:......
Three is often the largest number written with as many lines as the number represents. To this day it is written as three vertical lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way the Indians......
Hyderabad is all set to witness aspectacular chess match with Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand playing against 40 players simultaneously on August 24. According to the organisers of ICM --......