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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......

The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

Will INDIA's Boycott Change 'Media'?

One hopes, though one is not optimistic, that this action to some extent corrects the lunacy which has infected our national media and has damaged our nation, notes Aakar Patel. Illustration:......

Kargil: How MiG-25 Played A Special Role

'All enemy positions lay exposed, providing immense information to the Indian Army and IAF to conduct successful flushing out operations.' IMAGE: The MiG-25: 'It was a beast with immense power. It......

'Omicron may make you more sick'

'This virus may have more immune evasion capability and therefore, it may make you more sick.' IMAGE: A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample for the COVID-19 test in Bengaluru, November 28,......

Future laptops to benefit from new capacitor

Electric cars and laptops may soon benefit from a prototype capacitor that can store power as densely as a supercapacitor, and release it rapidly. The novel capacitor has been developed by a team......

China to begin world's fastest rail service soon

The Chinese railway ministry is starting the world's fastest train service next Friday, linking Beijing with one of China's Olympic co-host cities, nearby Tianjin. Zhang Shuguang, head of the......

COVID-19 vaccine: The Need for Caution

History shows us that even effective vaccines could have unknown side effects that could develop over time, warns former Cabinet Secetary K M Chandrasekhar. On July 2, the Indian Council of......

India must stop being the West's digital colony

'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,'......

Arundhati, Chanda among 4 Indians in Forbes' new list

These women are building billion-dollar brands, calling the shots in the financial markets, and crisscrossing the globe to broker international agreements and provide aid, the magazine noted......

Baahubali: Crown Of Blood Review: Intermittently Entertaining

Baahubali has generated an enterprise of television spin-offs, video games, graphic novels and what not, but a memorable Game Of Thrones it is not, observes Deepa Gahlot. Director of the two......

Taylor Swift Makes History At Grammys

Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters Taylor Swift made history at the Grammy awards on Sunday, February 4, 2024. Taylor is the first artiste to win Album of the Year four times, with her latest Grammy......

'Nobody is going to lie about box office figures'

'Fox makes films worth millions and millions of dollars. Fudging a few crores doesn't make much difference.' IMAGE: Akshay Kumar in Housefull 4. Someone rightly said an acting career is not......

Shah Rukh Khan: The King's Speech

Even as Mumbai's teenybopper population was drowning in Beiber-sized disappointment, my super-filmi week delighted in a breathtaking journey to Amazon, Satyajit Ray's fabulous use of fantasy to......

Freida Pinto scores blockbuster hit with Apes

In her first big budget film and fourth release Rise of the Planet of Apes, Mumbai-raisedFreida Pinto has a second worldwide hit.While many critics used words such as 'comely' and 'beautiful' to......

Soccer 'the most exciting sport'

It's official. Football has been the most exciting sport for the last 100 years, but baseball is catching up.A team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico studied a......

Bobby Fischer, the greatest chess player ever

He possessed an IQ of 180, higher than Albert Einstein's, but his life and career took unexpectedly bizarre routes.Dhruv Munjal salutes the strange genius of Bobby Fischer. IMAGE: Former world......

Bayern chief Hoeness to be tried for tax evasion

Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, once one of Germany's most admired soccer managers, goes on trial on Monday charged with tax evasion in a case that has shocked the nation and changed attitudes......

ISSF ratifies Heena Sidhu's world pistol mark

The world record set by Heena Sidhu-Pandit, who became the first Indian pistol shooter to bag an ISSF-World Cup Finals gold last November, has been ratified by the world shooting body. Heena shot a......

News media relations with Obama hit low ebb over golf weekend

Relations between the White House and the correspondents who cover it, always edgy and adversarial, have hit a low ebb in a dispute over whether the press should have access to the president during......

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