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British author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space novel

 British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her 'ambitious and beautiful' Orbital, which becomes the first novel set in space to win the GBP 50,000 literary prize selected from......

The world's worst natural disasters in 2018

 The world endured bushfires, drought, tsunamis and earthquakes in 2018.According to the Centre of Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 5,000 people died and 28.9 million needed emergency......

Aadhaar is based on unscientific thinking, fallible biometric data

 Biometric authentication is based on the unscientific and questionable assumption that there are parts of human body that do not age, wither and decay with the passage of time, says Gopal Krishna.......

Michelle Obama honours acid attack victim Laxmi

 Laxmi, an acid attack victim and a standard-bearer for the movement to end acid attacks in India, was honoured in the United States on Tuesday with the prestigious International Women of Courage......

Snooping target: How UIDAI puts India at risk

 Isn’t National Intelligence Grid and UIDAI engineered by vested interests, asks Gopal Krishna. The Devyani Khobragade row appears to be a motivated act ahead of the verdict of the US district......

How vulnerable are bank ATMs?

 The war between hackers and banks over ATM security will be dynamically redefined, notes Atanu Biswas.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   At least 22 people of the same locality in Kolkata......

10 tech trends that will shape 2008

 From wider adoption of software-as-a-service to a greater focus on biometric security measures, the year promises a lot. 1. Grid computing India is the fastest adopter of grid computing in the......

Why the world must watch out for India, China

 It may not top the must-see list of many tourists. But to appreciate Shanghai's ambitious view of its future, there is no better place than the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, a glass-and-metal......

Lunchbox director: From Irrfan to Broadbent to Redford

 'One of the director's primary jobs is to make sure that all the actors perform as if they are in the same movie, playing in the same band -- one is not acting in a different band than the......

What's so special about The Stepford Wives?

 When you consider that Hollywood hasn't really profited from making movies out of Ira Levin's suspense yarns, except for the landmark Rosemary's Baby, you may wonder why his novels should still......

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