IIT Kanpur has announced a breakthrough in stealth technology, which would make tanks and fighter aircraft invisible, or near-invisible to enemy radar. IMAGE: IIT Kanpur launches the Anlakhya......
The World Bank must become Archimedes' lever to help change the world into a more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable planet in the 21st century.The change in leadership now provides that......
As it happens at any scholarship interview, the questions kept coming at bullet speed. Sonia Sarkar was asked about education policy, the Presidential election and healthcare plans. Would she plan......
The only thing that might justify a response is the desperate state of Pakistan's economy and how its people are suffering.But it's better to be heartless for now, argues Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE:......
Ajit Divakaruni, 22, who is set to become the first student at University of Arizona to complete an honors thesis in three majors -- mathematics, biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology......
'India's future: To manufacture so efficiently that we do not need protection,' says Naushad Forbes.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Sociologist Ronald Dore was a great scholar of......
Students’ flagging interest in the written word is because of a generational digital divide, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Teachers everywhere, be it at our IIMs or at our high schools or at......
The US needs to start negotiations with India on free trade pact and help it become a member of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation, which will also enormously benefit America, said an......
On Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar's 125th birth anniversary on Tuesday, political parties across the spectrum tried to stake claim on his legacy. Since Independence, governments have introduced......
Yash P Gupta, an innovative educator who has led three prominent business schools, has been appointed the first dean of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University's new Carey Business School. Gupta,......
Saluting Alan Rickman. Every single tribute to the late British actor Alan Rickman recalls his rich, penetrating gaze and drawling yet imperious voice. And understandably so. But the actor's real......
Not in the mood for anything already at theatres? Here are five DVDs you can curl up with this weekend:Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (Hindi)Cast: Aamir Khan, Pooja Bhatt, Anupam Kher and Sameer Chitre.......
Dinesh RahejaIn Satyakam, a distressed-by-poverty Sharmila Tagore remarks: "Sone ke zevar banane ke liye thodi toh khot milani padti hai [To produce something as beautiful as gold jewellery, you......
Basketball star Kobe Bryant, his criminal charge of raping a young woman dismissed, faces what could be a nasty civil lawsuit, lawyers and experts said on Thursday."It's not going to be a cakewalk......