Days after Sabyasachi Das, an assistant professor at Ashoka University, resigned following a controversy over his research paper, Pulapre Balakrishnan, another professor in the economics......
Science is a young person's game.An award to a young scientist could free up that person to do productive work, or help win more grants by enhancing reputation, argues Devangshu Datta. IMAGE: Sir......
Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Physically bound to the wheelchair, Stephen Hawking reached out into the depths of the universe with his mind and decoded the mysterious cosmos for the common......
Saraswati spreads across 600 million light years and is four billion light years away from Earth.Rediff.com's Utkarsh Mishra reports. A 15 year study by a group of Indian scientists has resulted......
When President A P J Abdul Kalam presents the Padma awards for 2007 in the glittering Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh it will be like a reunion of old friends......
'Geopolitics will be the most important driver of financial markets in 2025.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com It has been a topsy-turvy few months for the Indian equity markets. "Given......
The 55 basis point (bps) spike in the US 10-year bond yield, triggered by a combination of FOMC’s hawkish commentary and BOJ’s relaxation of the yield control curve (YCC) has made......
'Yet the market didn't do all that badly because it was cushioned by domestic inflows.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com India's outperformance over the past year is largely due to troubles in......
'Recent underperformance notwithstanding, equities should constitute a major part of investors' financial portfolio.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Over the past few months, global......
'Nobody is talking about the inequality that is going to come.' Photograph: ANI Photo In a surprise move, the Reserve Bank of India hiked the repo rate. In fact, the finance minister said she was......
Economist and author Devaki Jain counted Girish Karnad among her good friends.Naturally, the 86-year-old Padma Shri awardee is coping with a deep sense of loss after Karnad passed into the ages on......
The early part of the twentieth century was a period of upheaval and unrest in the Indian subcontinent. Politically, Bengal was particularly vulnerable: it was facingpartition by India'sBritish......