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From Oxford to Harvard, voices of support for Jamia, AMU

IMAGE: A demonstrator attends a protest against the Citizenship Act and to show solidarity with the students of Jamia Millia Islamia in Amritsar on Tuesday. Photograph: Munish Sharma/Reuters The......

'No proof of Tamil script in Indus civilization'

President Pratibha Patil presented the 'Kalaignar M Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award' to Professor Arko Parpola, Professor-Emeritus of Indology, Institute of World Cultures, University of......

WTF News! It's Weird, True and Funny

Here's your weekly digest of the most weird, true and funny news from the across the globe. Kuwait pilot loses license after allowing porn star into cockpit A pilot for Kuwait Airways had his......

Dr Singh at 10, Downing Street

Number 10, Downing Street in London had an Indian visitor. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh met his British counterpart Tony Blair in his office.Singh is on a six-day visit to England and Finland......

India, UK cooperation on terrorism significant: PM

Observing that United Kingdom is one of India's most important dialogue partners, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday that cooperation between the two countries in the area of combating......

Cut costs via open source tech

For institutions world-over which have already invested heavily in proprietary technologies such as Microsoft Windows, the option to migrate to open source technologies such as Linux might just be......

Hart and Holmstrom win Economics Nobel for work on contract theory

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 to Oliver Hart of Harvard and Bengt Holmstrom of Massachusetts......

Finland, home to Nokia and jobless engineers, struggles to fill tech jobs

Nokia dominated around 40 percent of the world's mobile phone industry in 2008, but its products were eclipsed by touch-screen smartphones made by Apple and Samsung. IMAGE: Finnish......

Who is the CEO of Microsoft?

Giant firms and their CEOsWho is the CEO of Microsoft?Take the Rediff Business Quiz and find out how much you know about some of the world's largest corporations and their chiefs.Biz Quiz is best......

Now, an indoor GPS system!

Finding your way around shopping plazas or airports may soon get easier -- thanks to scientists who have developed an indoor positioning system for cellphones similar to GPS. The Global Positioning......

19 Brilliant Movies You Need To Watch

Sukanya Verma gives us a lowdown on all those wonderful movies she saw and movies you need to see as and when they arrive to a screen or streaming space near you. A lot has changed since the 2019......

Paris Olympics: 11 YO skater to 61 YO rider to compete

From 11-year-old to 60-plus, Olympics is playground for all Age is just a number, goes the old adage. And it seems particularly true for the Olympics where none is too old or too young to compete.......

Happy 60th, Carl Lewis!

His 9-gold athletic haul at the Olympics remains unrivalled with Usain Bolt coming close with 8.Raj Kishore Mishra, former joint secretary at the sports ministry, salutes Carl Lewis, 'Sportsman of......

Sports Shorts: Cueist O'Sullivan blasts new snooker record

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday IMAGE: Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan became the first player to compile 1,000 career century breaks. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty......

Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins bronze

Unheralded Sushil Kumar rose from obscurity to find a place in the history of Indian sport when he won a bronze medal in men's 66kg freestyle wrestlingat the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday. Earlier,......

Gowda fails to qualify for discus final

National record holder Vikas Gowda put up a brave effort but was pipped by a few centimetresin the men's discus throw final at the 10th world championships in Helsinki, Finland.Gowda, ranked 29th......

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