India building naval base on Mauritian island: Report

India is believed to be building a naval facility on the remote Mauritian island of Agalega in the south-western Indian Ocean, a leading Arab media organisation claimed on Tuesday, citing satellite......

Finding Radha on Women's Day

'She exists alongside Sita, the archetype of the ideal woman,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com What is love? This question, Google informs us, was the most searched......

The nation that crashed to earth

Roaring crime gave Venezuela the horrific title of being one of the most violent countries on earth.Inflation ran into tens of thousands per cent, impoverishing nearly all of the country's 31......

Israeli spacecraft crash-lands on moon

Beresheet, the Israeli moon spacecraft, which was the first privately-funded mission to the moon, on Thursday narrowly missed out a historic attempt to land on the lunar surface after the rover......

IMD may deploy cutting-edge tech to forecast weather accurately

IMD has decided to increasingly use cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning in forecasting. A few days ago, farmers from some 150 villages gathered at a square......

Deregulation to make India a trillion-dollar geospatial economy

A business in India wanting access to maps and geospatial data would typically have to wait months before it got what it wanted. All this is set to change with the new guidelines on geospatial......

Why are govts out to de-fang FAANG?

So far, there seems to be limited debate about their activities in India, where virtually all FAANG companies have teamed up in different ways with India's most powerful businessman, observes T N......

As markets turn volatile, investors look to the stars for guidance

The spread of COVID-19 and the accompanying mayhem caused the S&P BSE Sensex to drop over 38.5 per cent from its all-time high of 42,273.9 to a low of 25,981.2 on March 23. Those in the astrology......

Brahmastra: The Alternate Review

There is a kind of audacious large-scale experimentation which is admirable, even if the novelty and potential of the idea are not fully realised, notes Deepa Gahlot. Sometimes, it might just be......

His first film made Rs 175 crores!

'We had decided that if the audience liked Stree, then after two or three years we would plan a sequel.''Because of the kind of reaction we received for the film we have already started work on......

PIX: Lion star Sunny Pawar meets Uddhav Thackeray

'Happiness is a small word to describe my feelings at the moment.' The Pawars, exuberant after Sunny's success, meet the Thackerays. Child actor Sunny Pawar met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav......

Review: Lion tells a simple but moving story

Lion roars because of a magical child, writes Raja Sen. Sometimes a film works better than it should. Lion, directed by first-timer Garth Davis and an adaptation of Saroo Brierley's moving memoir,......

The legend of Neeraj Chopra continues to grow!

IMAGE: Neeraj Chopra is only the second Indian -- after shooter Abhinav Bindra -- to simultaneously hold the Olympics and World Championships title. Photographs: Reuters For someone who was......

This Indian Navyman ran the toughest marathon on earth

Not everyone completes the Badwater Marathon, Breeze Sharma did so, the fastest Indian ever.Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi spoke to the Indian Navyman to find out how he did it. Not every man survives a......