Oxford, Vatican libraries to digitise ancient texts

The Bodleian library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican libraries are collaborating on a project to bring ancient texts into the digital era, which will make 1.5 million pages available......

Dominant stand in US: 'Pak behaving like rogue state'

There are two perspectives in the United States government vis--vis the imbroglio in South Asia, one of which holds that the problem really is about India-Pakistan relations, and the other is that......

A modern scientist, an ancient question

Vivek Sharma heads one of the teams searching for the Higgs boson. George Joseph reports. The 'Song of Creation' in the Rig Veda says the world was void and formless in the beginning and it was......

Oh, this poor, befuddled Indian middle class!

The desperation of the middle class in heralding Anna Hazare as the Second Gandhi is symptomatic of a typical Indian mindset, says Navneet Anand While it may be flaunted by many as an historic......

Test call is reward for Unadkat's net gains

Haresh Pandya traces the meteoric rise of 18-year-old Jaydev Unadkat, who finds himself in the Indian Test squad for the second Test against Australia despite not playing a single Ranji Trophy......

Remembering the elegant M L Jaisimha

The name was a bit complex. For people other than South Indians, that is. But, certainly, not the person. Motganhalli Lakshminarsu Jaisimha, better known as M L Jaisimha, and affectionately called......