Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Joshimath crisis: Govt ignored warnings, says expert

Geological factors apart, the failure of successive governments to act on the warnings by experts about possible hazards in Joshimath and adjoining areas has emerged as a major reason behind the......

Decades of warnings preceded Sikkim disaster

Several occasions in the last two decades have seen government agencies and research studies warning about potential glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in Sikkim, which can cause massive damage......

ISRO removes sinking Joshimath images after gag order

Several state-run institutions including ISRO have been directed by the National Disaster Management Authority and the Uttarakhand government not to interact with media or share information on......

Karzai woos Indian IT firms

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday invited the Indian IT companies to set up their operations in his country. During a visit to Hitec city, which houses several Indian and multinational IT......

Antrix, Space Imaging in deal

Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation, has signed an agreement with US-based Space Imaging to market and sell data worldwide from ISRO's latest remote sensing......

India never had more decisive government: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday cited his dispensation's push for wide-ranging reforms, including the privatisation of Air India, to assert that the country never had a more “decisive......

Forest cover-up? Plantations in definition

How much land in India is under forest cover? No one has a clue though the Government of India has been bringing out state of the forest reports every two years for two decades. The latest report......

Nizhalkuthu is a masterwork

It is the early 1940s; India is on the cusp of Independence.In a remote village in Nagercoil, on the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, lives Kaliyappan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan), official......