Among the 36 new faces in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers, eight are lawyers, four are doctors, two former IAS officers and four MBA degree holders, besides several engineers,......
Mohammad Sajjad salutes the memory of Mushirul Hasan -- historian, thinker, academic, institution builder, -- who passed into the ages this week. IMAGE: Professor Mushirul Hasan. Photograph:......
My mom is a rockstarOften think had I been a girl I would have been better human being. The only reason that makes me contemplate this preposterous idea is that I simply adore my mother so much......
The New York Times hasannounced thatSomini Sengupta has been appointed the newspaper's next Delhi bureau chief. The decision is historic in that Sengupta, currently the Times' West Africa bureau......
All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Admission NoticeApplications are invited fromcandidates for admission to the following courses affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health......
Amartyada, says Omkar Goswami, thank you for being the humane, caring and socially concerned economist that you are. All Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Born in 1933, Amartya Sen......
The 'shining' image of India's IT industry took a beating when B Ramalinga Raju, (former) chairman and founder of Satyam Computer Services, confessed to a Rs 7,800 crore (Rs 78 billion) scam in a......
You may never have heard of Chengdu, a city of 4.1 million people in central China. But you will soon. The Chinese government has invested billions of dollars to entice U.S. companies to start......
'...it didn't make sense to me.''If the character was not adding (to the story), I wasn't interested.''The reason why I chose to act is because of the way it makes me feel when I'm acting, not for......