The IAF received a total of 13 awards including five Yudh Seva Medals and seven Vayu Sena Medal.The Army also got eight Shaurya Chakras and 98 Sena Medals. The Navy got one Shaurya Chakra. Wing......
A team led by Kolkata-born scientists has discovered a special sweet spot in the eye plays a crucial role in humans being able to to focus on computer screens and also read, an ability which is......
Rediff.com regrets to inform you that our dear colleague Arthur J Pais passed away in New Jersey on Friday. Arthur, an Editor at Rediff.com and India Abroad -- the Indian-American newsweekly owned......
Asteroid 2011 UW-158, an asteroid with 90 million tons of platinum core worth over five trillion dollars, hurtled past earth early Monday morning. The asteroid passed just 1.5 million miles from......
Shwetak Patel, a 29-year-old computer scientist who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life through a broad......
After a sharp fall in the share prices of HDFC Bank and other private sector lenders in the past three days, the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) sector weighting in the Nifty50 has......
Morgan Stanley on Thursday became the latest brokerage to question the valuations of Indian equities and downgraded them from ‘overweight’ (OW) to ‘equalweight’ (EW) and......
Increase cash levels to 15-year high; go for underweight equities for the first time in 4 years, reveals a BofA-ML survey The rally seen in global equities could be running out of steam, if......
Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed new wireless sensing technology that could allow users to 'train' their smartphones to recognise and respond to hand gestures near the......
A revolution is in the offing for hearing-impaired people with scientists testing a new mobile device which they claim will transmit American Sign Language over cellular networks. Developed by......
To make the cut for the nationally televised Jeopardy! Collegiate Championship is no small feat. Suchita Shah reflects on her 15 minutes of fame. I'm a senior at the University of......