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MIT expels Indian-origin student for pro-Palestine essay

An Indian-origin student pursuing PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been suspended until January 2026 following his pro-Palestinian activism and is currently appealing the......

'Israel like James Bond has a licence to kill'

'But unlike Bond who killed an individual, Israel is killing a nation.' IMAGE: An image taken from a video released by Hamas shows what it says are its fighters firing mortar shells at Israeli......

Children Will Always Remember Uncle Pai

Uncle Pai, as he was fondly called, inculcated in Indian children a love for and interest in India's glorious past and its heroes.A fascinating excerpt from Sanjeev Sanyal and Rajesh Singh's's......

Youngest to win top maths honour in 50 years

Professor Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University has won the 2008 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory, a top award of the American Mathematical Society. The award, given every three years,......

World Tech award for NRI scientist

Subhendu Guha won this year's World Technology Award in Energy for his innovative work on the science and technology of thin films made of silicon-based crystals and on solar cells. The winners of......

Acoustics pioneer and founder of Bose Corporation dies at 83

Amar Bose, the founder and chairman of the audio technology company Bose Corporation has died. He was 83. Announcing his death company president Bob Maresca said, "He was more than our chairman. He......

'Talk to Me' explains a paradigm shift in the way we consume information

And if you have started wondering why such innovations come only from American companies, Ajit Balakrishnan offers the answer. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com If you have ever experienced......

Title crunch stalls foreign mags' entry

Non-availability of titles of several known international magazines with the Registrar of Newspapers for India has virtually stopped the entry of over two dozen foreign magazines in the country.......

World's 20 most popular employers

Google has emerged as the world's most attractive employer, but four global auditing giants are posing a challenge to the technology giant, says a survey by employer branding company Universum.......

Face to face with a nanotech guru

Tim Harper, chief executive officer and founder of nano technology company Cientifica, was hailed by Time magazine as 'The Face of European Nanotechnology.' Harper is co-author of The......

Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend, dies at 103

Kirk Douglas, one of the great Hollywood leading men, who starred in movies like Spartacus and Champion, has died, according to his son, actor Michael Douglas. He was 103. IMAGE:......

At last! A museum of Indian Cinema

Historically, Mumbai has been the cinema capital of India and for her to have a film museum of this kind was perhaps a natural happening.Ranjita Ganesan reports. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra......

Rajnikanth's Endhiran in plagiarism row

Rajnikanth's blockbuster flick Endhiran (Robot) has come under a plagiarism row as a noted Tamil writer has complained that the background of the movie was stolen from one of his stories.According......

Can you recognise this actress?

Sridevi, Karan Johar, Tabu... Sukanya Verma's week was all about time travel and pleasant encounters with the super young avatars of Bollywood’s famous folk. Monday Only a couple of......

Terminator Genisys review: New Terminator has Arnie but not the vision of its iconic predecessors

Even if reduced to a 'relic of a deleted timeline,' Schwarzenegger is easily the only attraction of this wishy-washy sequel, prequel, reboot, offshoot, whatever.But that’s no reason to......

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