The Nobels and the Age Problem

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......

Hawking's Indian student: 'I knew him from a time he could speak'

Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Physically bound to the wheelchair, Stephen Hawking reached out into the depths of the universe with his mind and decoded the mysterious cosmos for the common......

The road to the discovery of 'Saraswati'

Saraswati spreads across 600 million light years and is four billion light years away from Earth.Rediff.com's Utkarsh Mishra reports. A 15 year study by a group of Indian scientists has resulted......

'I am not secular, I am a Hindu'

'As a governor, I have every right to speak my mind if I feel the security of my country is at stake.' 'Why is it that we would have to shed tears when Muslims are killed or tortured, but have to......

'$33 billion was taken out of India -- the highest-ever'

'Yet the market didn't do all that badly because it was cushioned by domestic inflows.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com India's outperformance over the past year is largely due to troubles in......

'Over The Long Term, Equities Are The Best Inflation Hedge'

'Recent underperformance notwithstanding, equities should constitute a major part of investors' financial portfolio.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Over the past few months, global......

'Rate hike will throw lot of people out from jobs'

'Nobody is talking about the inequality that is going to come.' Photograph: ANI Photo In a surprise move, the Reserve Bank of India hiked the repo rate. In fact, the finance minister said she was......

'Growth will definitely be less than 8%'

'There will be positive growth, but if you ask me whether we are going to have the original growth rate of 8%, the answer will be, no.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com In a surprise move,......

Aishwarya's screen presence and passion play

The early part of the twentieth century was a period of upheaval and unrest in the Indian subcontinent. Politically, Bengal was particularly vulnerable: it was facingpartition by India'sBritish......