How drones are helping fight against COVID-19

Drones are being used for carrying out a host of tasks like surveillance to ensure that people are maintaining social distancing, spreading awareness about COVID-19 in densely populated areas,......

Delhi riots toll reaches 38 as crime branch takes over cases

The death toll in Delhi's worst riots in more than three decades climbed to 38 on Thursday as the violence ebbed but did not subside completely and thousands of people began picking up the pieces......

27 dead in 2 days, 106 arrested; Delhi remains tense

After two days of communal clashes that claimed 27 lives, a brittle quiet settled over parts of riot-hit northeast Delhi on Wednesday but there was violence in some other places with shops set......

How best to remember George Fernandes?

'A fierce crusader against communalism, George joined hands with majoritarian forces, never to revisit or re-assess his saffron association.''He was a Union minister in 1998-2004, a time when......

Drone maker ideaForge bags biggest order from armed forces

The Army signed a $20-million deal with the Infosys-backed drone maker recently. ideaForge competed with the likes of Tata Group, Dynamatic Technologies, and Israel’s Elbit. When Indian and......

How Modi can ensure that Bharat indeed become Swachh

Swachh Bharat Mission could focus on using technological innovation to eradicate the problem of open defecation, says R Gopalakrishnan. To illustrate that innovation is possible even with a......

After 12,000 cups of coffee, start-ups await investors' call

  Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick had raised $37-million in Series-B funding while talking to investors at a pub in Dublin after meeting them during the day at Web Summit in 2011. Five years......

Drones boom: The next big opportunity after e-commerce

Image: Drone built by ideaforge called Netra. Photograph, courtesy: ideaForge     In 2003, three Indian Institute of Technology Bombay students got together to build a hovercraft by......

Katrina-Vicky's Leopard Story!

It's the holiday season and the stars are making the most of it. Photograph: Kind courtesy Katrina Kaif/Instagram Katrina Kaif shares picture from Jawai Bandh, a village in Rajasthan's Pali......

Kalank review: You won't be able to look away. But...

... you won't feel anything either, feels Sukanya Verma. What makes the great costume dramas of Hindi cinema so awe-inspiring is their ability to transfix and transport the viewer into......

PIX: Varun, Kriti, Richa, Huma party

Happy birthday, Varun Sharma! Actor Varun Sharma invited friends from the film industry to his birthday party on February 4. And boy, does Varun, who turned 27, have a lot of friends!   Varun......

Spotted: Imran Khan at Mumbai multiplex

Reader Ankit Patel's friends Baijul Mehta and Deepti Seth met Imran Khan at PVR theatre, Juhu, in the western suburb of...

'Medals at parallel event should be counted at CWG'

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday IMAGE: Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra. Photograph: Tom Dulat/Getty Images Indian Olympic Association's proposal......

Sports Shorts: Russian athletics federation remains banned

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday  IMAGE: A view shows the logo at the The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) headquarters in Monaco.......

Sehwag in NADA's Appeals Panel, dope tainted Kunjarani in ADDP

Legendary opener Virender Sehwag and former Delhi player Vinay Lamba have been made members of the Anti-Doping Appeal Panel (ADAP) of the NADA in a rare instance of cricketers being roped in for......

Kolkata Knight Riders gives Keshri's family Rs 20 lakh

(From left to right): KKR CEO Venky Mysore, Sourav Ganguly, KKR co-owner Jay Mehta, KKR captain Gautam Gambhir, a Cricket Association of Bengal official along with Ankit Keshri's father Rajkumar.......

Ranji Trophy: Manish Pandey's double ton hoists Karnataka

Manish Pandey struck an unbeaten maiden double century after resuming his cramps-interrupted innings on 101 on Friday morning, and Amit Verma scored 173, to put Karnataka in command against Mumbai......