Despite India's recent economic boom, at least 46 per cent of its children up to the age of three still suffer from malnutrition, making the country home to a third of the world's malnourished......
Amartya Sen, economist and a Nobel Prize winner in economics, has been felicitated with the National Medals of Arts and Humanities Award by United States President Barack Obama at a glittering......
United States President Barack Obama would felicitate India-born Nobel laureate Amartya Sen with the 2011 National Humanities Medal, along with others, the White House announced on Saturday. The......
Jack Kevorkian, a controversial American Pathologist known as 'Dr Death' for his efforts to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States, has died in a Detroit area hospital......
Middle age is the boot stamping on our face, says Shougat Dasgupta.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com We are moving to a new flat. The movers are descending, clearing our detritus -- the......
Saroj Dutta, executive director of Jet Airways said in Mumbai on Sunday that the five-day long strike by pilots of Jet Airways has cost the company in terms of revenue losses to the......
If it pans out, it will be the biggest M&A deal involving an Indian company. The proposed $23-billion mega deal between Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN is even bigger than Tata Steel's......
The newest edition of the fest commences today.A look at the first-day action from the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)'s annual fest. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters Hollywood......
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting. Abhishek Bachchan was recently in London to to attend Hollywood actor Al Pacino's one man act An Evening With Pacino.......
Veteran actor Al Pacino is set to play the lead role in Masterpiece, a film about legendary French painter Henri Matisse.Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Deepa Mehta, will direct the film.The film will......
Academy award winner Al Pacino, who longtime wished to play Napoleon, now gets a chance to play the French emperor in an on-screen adaptation of children's book - Betsy and the Emperor. GC Corp,......
The Apprentice is a keenly observed and entertaining biopic about the making of a man who is mostly responsible for all that has gone wrong with current American politics, observes Aseem Chhabra.......
US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro was greeted by thousands of fans and feted with rock band Queen's seminal "We are the Champions" when he made a triumphant return to his hometown of Tandil on......
Reader Gajanan Patil sent us this photograph from Bengaluru. 'My name is Gajanan Patil. I met Sachin Tendulkar at Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru while the Indian team was practicing......