7 Indians among 40 finalists for 'junior Nobel'

Forty high school students, including seven Indian-Americans, have been named finalists for the Intel Science Talent Search 2008. The Intel STS competition, often called the 'junior Nobel Prize',......

Soren's conviction jolts Tihar's VIP inmates

The coal minister in the Union Cabinet till a few days ago, Shibu Soren is now merely qaidi No. 1726 at the Tihar Jail, New Delhi. He is serving a life term for murdering his personal assistant 12......

Do our institutes connect with the real India?

Shauke-deedar hain agar to nazar paida kar.The new reservations policy has produced a lot of distress among students. Aspiring doctors and engineers are agitating on the Internet and on the......

How Indian IT giants are playing catch-up in consultancy

The issue large Indian firms face is not bandwidth or scale but one of mindset and business model. Shivani Shinde reports. The analyst community tracking the Indian IT services industry took......

Why unicorns are investing in startups

Byju's, Flipkart, PharmEasy and CRED, among others, have taken the acquisition route to grow, reports Shivani Shinde. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Even as startups in India continue to......

IT majors to focus on localised hiring

TCS, Infosys ramp up onshore hiring; Infosys committed to hire 25,000 over 5 years, reports Shivani Shinde. IMAGE: Between April last year and January 2021, onshore hiring, including taking in......

Automation gobbles up jobs in the IT sector

At Infosys and Wipro, 8,200 roles have been impacted in six months, discover Ayan Pramanik and Shivani Shinde Nadhe. Automation is eating up jobs in the information technology sector of the......

Twenty new athletes added to 2024 Games' TOPS list

IMAGE: India weightlifter Mirabai Chanu in action during the Tokyo Olympics. Photograph: Chris Graythen/Getty Images As many as 20 new sportspersons were on Monday added to the list of Target......

Indian junior Fed Cup team qualifies for World Group

The Indian junior Fed Cup team has qualified for the World Group after finishing third in the Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying event following a 2-1 win over New Zealand in the Play-off, in New Delhi......

Qualifer Paramveer shocks fourth seed Gagan

Qualifier Paramveer Bajwa from Chandigarh sent Rajasthan's fourth seed Gagan Sharma crashing out in the boys' singles quarter-finals round of the Cricket Club of India (CCI) 6th Ramesh Desai......

Former champ Sridhar concedes tie

Former national champion Vinod Sridhar defaulted out of the DSCL Open National tennis championship on Tuesday when he conceded his match against Tushar Liberhan tied at a set apiece.There was no......