Dr Shreekant Sambrani pays tribute to Dr M S Swaminathan, the renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who passed away in Chennai last week. IMAGE: Prime Minister......
The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images for the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year! The Awe-Inspiring scenes of the Milky Way rising, galaxies colliding, stellar......
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......
United States President Donald Trump has presided over a rare naturalisation ceremony at the White House where five immigrants, including a software developer from India, were sworn in as American......
The people who know Tibet will continue to fight the good fight.Long, hard, less than hopeful, but always peaceful.Veer Arjun Singh reports. IMAGE: A Tibetan monk walks past Rapid Action Force......
The so-called 'fourth industrial revolution' will bring ever faster cycles of innovation, posing huge challenges to companies, workers, governments and societies alikeImplantable mobile phones.......
Domestic opposition weakens the prospect of Obama's proposals ever becoming law, says Dani Rodrik. When US President Barack Obama announced in late January his intention to seek tough new rules for......
A WTO ruling opening up China to Hollywood should help Bollywood too, Sanjaya Baru. Bollywood is becoming big business, said the opening line of the lead story in the Business Standard last week.......
Deep Joshi retired from the rural development NGO Professional Assistance for Development Action two years ago, but it took him nearly a month to find time for Lunch with BS. That wasn't because he......
The world economy has seen globalisation collapse once already. The gold standard era-- with its free capital mobility and open trade-- came to an abrupt end in 1914 and could not be resuscitated......
Sukanya Verma gives a toast to the man, the movies and the many, many, MANY memories he's made on big screen through 80 Amitabh Bachchan moments. The list starts here! 21. Ande ka funda, Amar......
Aseem Chhabra is impressed by Rima Das's Bulbul Can Sing, Ritesh Batra's Photograph and eight other outstanding films. The 10-days long 69th Berlinale ended last weekend with a tribute to its......
For starters, Mad Max: Fury Road is gloriously nuts, says Raja Sen. IMAGE: A still from Mad Max: Fury Road What is better than winning Best Picture? It sounds bonkers, I grant you, yet hear......
Watch the trailers and predict the winner at the end. I feel weird commenting on the Best Actor race this year since I've watched all the nominated performances except that of the frontrunner, and......
Oh, how different the film would be! Will Leo finally walk away with an Oscar for his gritty portrayal in The Revenant this year? While we keenly look forward to the much awaited, meme-ed moment......
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: The Haas F1 car. Photograph: Handout/Getty Images Energy drink Rich Energy, a start-up brand recently linked to billionaire......