Rediff.com's P Rajendran attends a seminar on pure science at the second day of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas event in Kochi. That there was some confusion about the definition of 'pure science' was......
Dr Binayak Sen, a Bengali paediatrician, public health specialist and activist, was jointly awarded the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award 2011 at the House of Lords, London on June 12......
Two Indian human rights activists -- Binayak Sen and Bulu Imam -- will be honoured with the International Peace Award given by the Gandhi Foundation at the House of Lords. The award was created in......
Shashi Tharoor's controversial remarks on Pandit Nehru's foreign policy got support on Sunday from the Bharatiya Janata Party, which said the Union Minister spoke the truth. At the same time, the......
An angry Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Sunday hit out at the media claiming that they had misreported his remarks on Jawaharlal Nehru and demanded that they issue a......
Empowering villagers to get better services, about 250,000 panchayats would be connected through fibre optics and broadband connections within the next couple of years, advisor to the Prime......
NRI entrepreneurs Moni Varma, founder of the Veetee brand basmati rice and Rami Ranger, founder-chairman of Sun Oil Ltd, have won the Asian of the Year and Asian Leadership in Europe Awards for......
Surina Narula, a London-based businesswoman and fundraiser for charitable causes, particularly for street children in India, has been declared as the 'Asian of the Year 2005' for her outstanding......
Absent from the list of participants for the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the largest ever gathering of global Indians being held between January 9-11, are businessmen like Laxmi Mittal, Swaraj Paul,......