Physics Nobel goes to scientists who enabled machine learning

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, the......

2 scientists share medicine Nobel for discovery of microRNA

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene......

Peter Higgs, Nobel laurate behind 'God' particle, dead

Peter Higgs, the British physicist and Nobel Prize winner behind the 'God' particle, passed away at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the age of 94, The Washington Post reported. IMAGE: Peter......

Hate app: SC refuses to stay probe in FIRs against creator

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a petition filed by an accused, who is the alleged creator of the Sulli Deals app, seeking clubbing of FIRs lodged in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra with......

Innovative field research in India helped Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo win Economics Nobel

This year's Laureates have shown how the problem of global poverty can be tackled by breaking it down into a number of smaller - but more precise - questions at individual or group levels, he Royal......

Economics Nobel for India-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, M Kremer

The trio introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty IMAGE: The portraits of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kreme, who......

He has big dreams for Thomas Cook

There are 150 Indian companies with an annual travel budget of over Rs 10 crore (Rs 100 million). So when a friend asked Udayan Bose to guess how many of these were Thomas Cook India Limited's......

India to outsource visa processing

In 2005, 3915324 foreigners (nearly 4 million) visited India. The foreign tourist inflow brought in Rs 25,172 crore (Rs 251.72 billion) as foreign exchange earnings to the country.The overseas......

PIX: Beckham bids ex-England boss Eriksson adieu

Eriksson, known in Sweden simply as "Svennis", led England to the 2002 and 2006 World Cup quarter-finals, and to the 2004 European Championship, managing a golden generation of players that besides......

Rublev wins Swedish Open; Novak to skip Canadian Masters

Rublev beats Ruud to win Swedish Open IMAGE: Russia 's Andrey Rublev celebrates with the trophy after winning his final match against Norway's Casper Ruud. Photograph: TT News Agency via......

Europa League PIX: United win; fireworks halt Berlin game

Rashford double as Man United fight back to beat Omonia IMAGE: Manchester United's Marcus Rashford celebrates. Photograph: Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters Substitute Marcus Rashford scored twice......

Nations League PIX: Spain win; Portugal top group

Sarabia strikes early as Spain win in Switzerland IMAGE: Spain's Pablo Sarabia in action with Switzerland's Remo Freuler. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters An early goal from Pablo Sarabia......

WC qualifiers: Ronaldo tricks; crowd trouble at Eng, Poland matches

Images and summary of all the World Cup 2022 qualifiers played across continents on Tuesday. Ronaldo nets hat-trick as Portugal rout Luxembourg IMAGE: Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates......