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Eagerly awaiting Chandrayaan-3's Moon landing: Sunita Williams

With the highly anticipated landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon scheduled for Wednesday, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams has expressed her excitement and anticipation for the event.......

The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

Want to buy a dinosaur?

One of the world's most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons is up for sale. IMAGE: Stan, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered, is going up for auction at......

'Chandrayaan has given useful data on moon'

Though the Indian Space Research Organization had to prematurely terminate the country's first moon exploration mission after it lost radio contact with Chandrayaan-1 over the weekend, the probe is......

Six years, eight days, and a hijack hero

Every year, the eight days from December 24 to December 31 keep one Indian Airlines deputy general manager edgy.Six years ago, it was these eight days that Captain Devi Saran was on board Flight......

The 10 years of Discovery Channel

In his corner office overlooking the green cover abutting the ridge in Delhi, Deepak Shourie is upbeat. The Discovery network is 10 years old in India and, to hear him bubble with enthusiasm, it's......

Karnataka's 'Palace on Wheels' still off-track

The proposed 'Palace on Wheels' in Karnataka is likely to be delayed further due to non-availability of funds. The project is being kept in abeyance as the state government is yet to release its......

Trai to cap DTH charges? Bad idea

The proposal by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indiato cap charges for channels shown on direct-to-homeplatforms at Rs 5 per month is in line with what has been allowed for those operating......

Boom time in entertainment market

Pinning down Niret and Nikhil Alva, promoters of the Rs 50-crore (Rs 500 million) television software company Miditech Pvt Ltd, is not easy. While the president of the company Niret Alva is......

How voice & video will dominate in 2020

'What amazes me the most is that today users communicate with voice-activated speakers like as if they were talking to another human being, using words like "please," and "thank you," and even......

'I am very fond of snakes and crocodiles'

'I am the strongest contender of Khatron Ke Khiladi,' Harshad Arora tells Rajul Hegde/ Rediff.com Beintehaa actor Harshad Arora recently wrapped up his soap, and joined the contestants......

We, the schizophrenic Indian audience

Anchors who get their guests shouting and saying intemperate things -- like Arnab Goswami on Times Now -- get the largest audiences and revenues. Not BBC or Rajya Sabha TV. Surveys show......

When being mean is in

It's logical, practical and perfectly sane to not desire a rotten tomato in your carefully picked purchase. Unfortunately, Indian television isn't even as smart as doing grocery. It's, in fact,......

Hats off to you, Farhan

What it says is what it does: Lakshya is not a war film. It is a film about how humans change, not only in war but in life too. Indeed, what we are today is, at times, not reflective of what we......

Weekend Watch: Bridges Of Madison County

Sometimes, the best moments of your life are the briefest ones.It takes just four days for Francesca (Meryl Streep), a bored housewife in the sleepy town of Iowa to discover that 'this kind of......

Not just cricket for Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar has got little to prove on the cricket field; but off it, the sporting icon has one big regret -- not having learnt a musical instrument.The little master loves tuning in to music,......

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