Top US honour for journalist Srinija Srinivasan

President Barack Obama has appointed Chandigarh-born Srinija Srinivasan, 40, one of the three co-founders of Yahoo! Inc, as a member of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.......

How Bharat Matrimony became the best priest in the marriage business

Srinath, a 28-year-old techie, was in a hurry to get married. His astrologer warned him if his alliance was not fixed in three months, he might have to wait for another five years. Though in a......

COLUMN: Pirates of the modern world

Filtering of websites has now been introduced as a discussable topic. The current battle is about who will control the most visible and glamorous layer, the content layer, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.......

Yahoo! picks up 30% in Chennai service provider

Internet search firm Yahoo! has acquired around 30 per cent stake in Chennai-based tele-information service provider Info Network Management Company (INMAC) for an undisclosed amount. With this......

IBM readies new software to enter small biz

Software: The company has so far unveiled office desktop package like Lotus Symphony and enterprise social software IBM Lotus Connections, among others. In its efforts to thwart Microsoft, IBM had......

Watch out for this Sufi rocker!

Vocalist and composer Falu, who has performed with Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman in the presence of First Lady Michelle Obama, television celebrity Oprah Winfrey and actress Elizabeth Taylor,......

'Juhi, Ayesha, Konkona are the best'

We often have directors over for chats, but director Anurag Kashyap enjoyed his chat with rediff readers so much he wasn't ready to say goodbye -- the conversation went on well past the appointed......

''You cannot love someone you don't respect'

Ayesha Takia seems to be Bollywood's Next Big Thing. She has bagged such films like David Dhawan's Shaadi No 1, Sujoy Ghosh's Home Delivery and also Naseeruddin Shah's directorial debut.The......

Crowe will deliver a few punches

Russell Crowe will now let loose as a boxer in Ron Howard's Cinderella Man. Set in the Depression era, Crowe essays the character of the 1930s boxing champion James J Braddock. For added......