'For 1,400 years India led the world in science'

'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.''Nobody tried or convicted Aryabhata just because he said Rahu-Ketu is nonsense.''Some Indians take the extreme view......

Sheena Bora Trial: And then the witness began to cry

She continued to cry, harder, feebly dabbed her eyes with the handkerchief she had received, and declared painfully: "He is hurting my emotions!"Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora......

'Ayurveda is medicine with intelligence, modern medicine is like a bullet'

‘As such classical Ayurveda is shrinking. Not because people don’t want it but because it is not properly placed in the public mind.’ ‘Health is more and more becoming a......

The real issue with Electronic Voting Machines

Rajeev Srinivasan on how EVM problems are much bigger than technology or politics. The first of a two-part series. I have been doubtful about electronic voting machines for quite some time, based......

How to protect yourself from ransomware hackers

With thousands of people receiving ransom messages from cybercriminals every day, Devangshu Dutta explains how you can defeat the hackers.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com It's morning. You......

Curtains to come down on Microsoft XP from Apr 8

Microsoft will stop technical support for its most popular operating system (OS) Windows XP globally from Tuesday, bringing down curtains on the software giant's longest running OS. From tomorrow,......

Microsoft to release an update for IE

Microsoft will release an update on Friday for its Internet Explorer browser to fix a security problem that could potentially expose personal computers to hacking attacks."Earlier this week, an......

Indian BPO to employ prisoners for bank work

In what has been billed as 'a unique public-private experiment', an Indian outsourcing company that claims Royal Bank of Scotland and Goldman Sachs as its clients, is to employ inmates at the......