Experts explain why Delhi cracker ban went up in smoke

Gaps in enforcement, limited monitoring, and easy access to firecrackers from the NCR region where restrictions were slack were largely responsible for the widespread flouting of the cracker ban in......

Cyclone Dana: Lakhs evacuated; flights, trains suspended

As Cyclone Dana barrels toward the coasts of Odisha, threatening to impact nearly half of the state's population, the government is racing against time to execute a massive evacuation plan aimed at......

80 more flights get bomb threats, Rs 600 crore lost

Nearly 80 domestic and international flights received bomb threats in less than 24 hours that later turned out to be hoaxes, keeping thousands of passengers and security agencies on tenterhooks.......

India Needs A National Security Strategy

The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global......

'Aim to make FAME scheme more transparent'

'The aim is also to probe how the ministry and testing agencies made negligence in examining these OEMs, so that such negligence is avoided in the future.' Photograph: Aditi Shah/Reuters After......

Par panel pulls up DoT on internet shutdowns

Expressing concern over frequent internet shutdown without any empirical study, a Parliamentary panel has pulled up the Department of Telecommunications for not maintaining the record of incidents......

Modi to launch 5G services on Oct 1

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the much-awaited 5G services in India on October 1, 2022, an official release said on Friday. Photograph: ANI Photo According to the release, 5G to be......

Manchester, Silicon Valley...

Why do Innovation Revolutions happen outside India, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   If you are born, raised and educated in India, high chances are that the......

Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony Plans Unveiled

IMAGE: IOC Coordination Commission chairman Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant said he was confident Paris 2024 would be in position to deliver excellent Games. Photograph: Gonzalo......

Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr to head of FIFA's anti-racism committee

'An act of racism is a criminal act... From now on, FIFA will take legal actions with local authorities too, we will join complaints filed in local justice.' IMAGE: Brazil forward Vinicius Jr was......

Asian Games to act as Paris Olympics qualifiers

IMAGE: As per the qualification procedure for the 2024 Paris Games laid down by the FIH, 12 teams each among men and women will participate in the Olympic Games. Photograph: Hockey India/Twitter......

Qatar World Cup: Minor offences won't result in arrest

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FIFA /Twitter World Cup fans in Qatar caught committing minor offences such as public drunkenness will escape prosecution under plans being developed by authorities in......

Serbian athlete tests positive on arrival in Japan for Olympics

The report comes after two members of the Ugandan Olympic delegation tested positive for the coronavirus last month upon arrival in Japan. One tested positive at Narita airport near Tokyo, but the......