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B P Agrawal wins prestigious MIT award

Social entrepreneur Dr Bhagwati P Agrawal, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Sustainable Innovations, has received the $ 100,000 Lemelson-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Award......

Sonal Shah to head Obama's social innovation team

Sonal Shah, former head of global development at Google.org, has been appointed as the head of the new White House Office of Social Innovation, the Chronicle of Philantrophy,a non-profit newspaper......

Which planet do you live on?

'We had been talking for two hours about India and America and we stopped and looked at each other. "The issues are the same," said my hyper-successful and patriotic NRI friend, his hidden Indian......

'In India, there is very little trust in China'

Kenneth Lieberthal, senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at think tank The Brookings Institution and an expert on China, talks to Aditi Phadnis on the changes China is......

TEXT: US President Obama's State of the Union address

United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday delivered his State of the Union address in which he spelt out the agenda for the second term of his Presidency.Here's the verbatim text of his......

Here's how you can combine innovation with a social cause

There is good news for Kolkata and maybe, eventually, the rest of urban India too. A report says that a Danish firm has designed a cart for food hawkers -- there are 1.25 lakh of them in the city......

Villgro for rural social entrepreneurs!

When rediff.com met Paul Basil in 2004, he was running RIN (Rural Innovation Network), which he had started in 2001, with just three people and Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million). RIN promoted rural......

Indian solar group wins top UK award

D. light Design, an Indian social enterprise that brings innovative solar lanterns to many people across India and other developing countries, has won the top Gold Award at the Ashden Awards for......

Internet: What the future holds for us

The Interop Mumbai 2009 conference was off to an innovative start, with Wim Elfrink, Chief Globalisation Officer and EVP, Cisco Services, showing an amazed enterprise IT audience on how the......

'IIT-ians have brought glory to the country'

V Vaidyanathan, assistant vice president and head, global innovation office, Cognizant Technologies, is the chairman of the 'Innovation Track' at the Pan-IIT 2008 conference to be held in Chennai......

Showbiz and artistry: Can the two co-exist?

The dynamic between showbiz and creativity may well be one domain where the relationship between market forces and society is at its most delicate, says Rajni Bakshi, after attending the three-day......

Yash Chopra's cinema was grand, indulgent, beautiful

Grand. Indulgent. Windswept chiffon saris. Saturated candy colour. Hundreds of lovely adjectives can describe Yash Chopra's films. Bollywood specialist Beth Watkins attempts a few.In some ways,......

Yash Chopra's cinema was grand, indulgent, beautiful

Grand. Indulgent. Windswept chiffon saris. Saturated candy colour. Hundreds of lovely adjectives can describe Yash Chopra's films. Bollywood specialist Beth Watkins attempts a few.In some ways,......

Give the Bollywood woman some respect!

Rinki Roy, daughter of noted director Bimal Roy, pens her thoughts on how women have been portrayed in Hindi cinema through the years, and why the stereotyping should STOP!As an activist, I......

Review: KBC 6 has lost some of its fizz

When it comes to entertainment, few succeed like Amitabh Bachchan does. The 69-year-old's popularity has not just expanded over the decades but sustained itself even in this day and age of instant......

People speak for office of social innovation

QNA

Q. 2010/1 - LIFE: \Is life really tough as it appears to us or is it our own attitude towards life that makes it tough for us? \Please elucidate your answer and thoughts comprehensively.
: A. GOod comrade.....There are 2 aspects which make life what it is. The first is your HEART (ala your ability to take a beating and move forward) and...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/20101---life-is-life-really-tough-as-it-appears-to-us-or-is-//answers/16683927

Q. whatis the full form of isi
Omega: A. Information Sciences Institute (at USC) Institute for Scientific Information International Statistical Institute Inter-Symbol Interference...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/whatis-the-full-form-of-isi/16513870/answers/16479000

Q. What Are really the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years?
Monty Dhyani: A. Fiber optics Open source software Biofuels Mobile phones Microfinance Photovoltaic cells Anti-retroviral AIDS treatment LCDs Bar codes E-mail Media...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-are-really-the-top-30-innovations-of-the-last-30-years/16478958/answers/15802272

Q. How learning Bharat Natayam Dance can help anybody get rid of mosquito menance ?
Anantharaman : A. Legal : Legal authorities have welcomed with their naked body (is it in synonymous to open heart? to be clarified from the questioner). Judges are...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/how-learning-bharat-natayam-dance-can-help-anybody-get-rid-o/15802218/answers/14000475

Q. Malegaon blast Hindu Terrorists should Be hanged?
Lucky : A. Even if it is assumed that Pragya singh and others including ex-army personnel were involved in Malagaon Blast ,she and her team should be praised...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/malegaon-blast-hindu-terrorists-should-be-hanged/13998765/answers/11515044

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A handshake across the Himalayas

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B P Agrawal wins prestigious MIT award

Sonal Shah to head Obama's social innovation team

Which planet do you live on?

'In India, there is very little trust in China'

TEXT: US President Obama's State of the Union address

Here's how you can combine innovation with a social cause

Villgro for rural social entrepreneurs!

Indian solar group wins top UK award

Internet: What the future holds for us

'IIT-ians have brought glory to the country'

Showbiz and artistry: Can the two co-exist?

Yash Chopra's cinema was grand, indulgent, beautiful

Yash Chopra's cinema was grand, indulgent, beautiful

Give the Bollywood woman some respect!

Review: KBC 6 has lost some of its fizz

People speak for office of social innovation

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