'We can now predict future Lashkar attacks'

Terror outfits like the Lashkar-e-Tayiba thrive on one very major factor --the element of surprise. Intelligence agencies across the globe have gone wrong on many occasions and the LeT has......

Houston teenager invents lie detector test

It's barely a month since Kaavya Vishwanathan was caught for, well, cheating and trying to lie her way out of it. Now, at the other end of the truthiness spectrum comes 16-year-old Trisha Pasricha,......

Full text: What Modi, Obama agreed on

This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama assessed the......

'Germany and India are natural partners'

Germany's new Ambassador to India, Bernd Mtzelburg, was Foreign and Security Policy Adviser to the former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and served as Ambassador (at-large) before coming to......

40-year-old fintech gurus need 60-year-olds to handhold them

The message is clear: The 60-year-old wise uncles need to handhold the 40-year-old entrepreneurs when, obsessed with ambition and greed for growth, they become a victim of hubris, points out Tamal......

Who invented the computer mouse?

Computers Today computers are an integral part of our lives, both at work and home. Take the rediff biz quiz and find how much you know about this very essential gadget. Biz Quiz is best viewed in......

5G will be rolled out by 2020

India is looking at 5G technology as a major opportunity in terms of offering services tailored for rural India like telehealth, tele-education and bandwidth-heavy applications As India aims to......

New patenting norms may put India's software innovation into sleep mode

Patenting of software applications could virtually become impossible in the country if the draft guidelines on computer-related innovation come into force. The rules, the first ever for software......