Threats were often communicated to Pandit homes through notes tied to stones chucked through a window, or a notice pasted on a wall.Those sometimes came from neighbours eyeing that Pandit family's......
What the Indian economy looks like next January will influence her view on India, not her genetics, notes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris accepts......
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'It is not just a loss for India or UC Berkeley, it is a loss for the world.'Friends and teachers at Tarishi Jain's university in California remember the teenager murdered by IS killers in......
Dr Tiju Thomas, an IFS officer who studied medicine, has set up the first public online blood donors registry in the UAE where he is currently posted. He speaks to Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com Dr......
Arvind Subramanian will hold classes for a week on applied economics at IIT Delhi The Lecture Hall Complex at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, is looking unusually busy these days,......
The $787-billion stimulus plan has started showing some signs of positive impact on the US economy within a month of being put into force, a top adviser of US President Barack Obama said. "It is......
If you're into prestige as well as a top-notch education, Oxford is right up there with Harvard. Yet consider this: An incoming freshman at Harvard College is looking at an estimated $185,800 for......
'In the final analysis, all Budgets everywhere are like the schemes hatched by A A Milne's lovable Winnie-the-Pooh.''They may be well-intended, but often go awry.''Although Pooh and his friends......
Three years after Katrina, the nation's most expensive hurricane, which cost insurers an estimated $44 billion, came Gustav. As if New Orleans needed its rebuilding project to get any harder. And......
She has moved on from Prithvi, but Sanjna Kapoor's passion for theatre remains undimmed.Actor Naseeruddin Shah, who makes no bones about how dreary he found boarding school in Nainital, once told......