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UK parliament has only 20 per cent women members

As wrangling continues in Indian parliament over providing 33 per cent reservation to women, history shows political participation was more difficult for women in Britain and now only 20 per cent......

How India missed another Nobel Prize

Shivanand Kanavi reveals how Narinder Kapany, the Father of Fibre Optics, missed out on a Nobel Prize this year. First, it was Jagadish Chandra Bose at the turn of the century, who was the first to......

Delhi belly may soon be history

Avid tourists may no longer have to worry about catching the dreaded travellers' diarrhoea, popularly known as Montezuma's Revenge during their numerous jaunts, thanks to researchers at The......

A salute to the Mumbaikar spirit

Readers tell us how they coped on Terrible Tuesday.Thanks for coming up so fast with a help line and rising to the occasion. Most of the people have returned home and at some places things are as......

West Virginia for Bush

Early results are in, and President George W Bush has taken West Virginia and is projected to take Georgia, Kentucky and Indiana, while Democratic challenger John Kerry is projected to take......

Secret to big earnings in stocks? Testosterone!

Forget volatility. Want success in the stock market? Man, watch out your sex hormone level!A new study has found that higher testosterone in the morning leads to higher earnings for the rest of......

How far away is the US recession

So that's it then. We're all agreed. "This is clearly the worst financial problem we've had since the Great Depression," as Joseph Stiglitz told a radio show in New Zealand on Wednesday morning,......

Economics Nobel winners through history

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 2005 will be declared on Monday, October 10. Here we present a list of all the recipients of the Economics Nobel that was first given in 1969. 2005......

How many women have won the Economics Nobel?

Economics and the Nobel Prize How many women have won the Economics Nobel?Take the Rediff Business Quiz and find out how much you know about the Nobel Prize in Economics. Biz Quiz is best viewed in......

Who's afraid of protectionism?

With the US Presidential election just a week away and the race between George W Bush and John Kerry a dead heat, many Indians are probably wondering about the impact of a Kerry Presidency on......

Argo, Life of Pi win at Oscars 2013

The 85th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: Best Picture Amour Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les......

Life Of Pi, Django Unchained bag Oscar nominations

The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards are out, and it has its fair share of surprises and expected nods. The nominations were announced by Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlene in Los Angeles. The......

Lincoln leads BAFTA 2013 nominees

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln dominates the 2013 nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). The American historical drama film earned 10 nominations including Best Film, Best Actor for......

Sutcliffe inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

The late Herbert Sutcliffe, who opened the batting for Yorkshire and England, was formally inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Hall of Fame, at Lord's on Saturday.Herbert......

Waugh, Akram inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

The International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) on Wednesday acknowledged the services to cricket of some of the all-time greats of the......

Those Sunny days

Cricketing ignoramuses, reared on a diet of watching batsmen plundering runs against poor teams and listless bowlers on batting paradises, tend to believe that opening the innings is damn easy.But......

US Open men's singles champions

List of US Open men's singles champions:2008 Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Andy Murray (Britain) 6-2 7-5 6-2Images fromUS Openmen's final2007 Federer beat Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 7-6 7-6 6-42006......

US Open men's singles champions

List of US Open men's singles champions: 2007 Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 7-6, 7-6, 6-42006 Federer beat Andy Roddick (US) 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-12005 Federer beat Andre......

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Shares bound higher as Fed meeting nears, dollar firms

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets rose and the dollar strengthened against the yen on Monday on expectations the Federal... ...

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Governor General to Visit Newfoundland and Labrador

His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will visit the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador on June 12 and... ...

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U.S. finds long-lost diary of top Hitler aide

By John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of... ...

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How US spy agency uses new technology to delve even deeper

Washington: When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, emails and other data piling up... ...

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TMS International shareholders re-elect 8 board in Pittsburgh

TMS International Corporation re-elected 8 directors at the steel services company's annual meeting in Pittsburgh. The Glassport-based TMS said... ...

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