At least 27 Indian pilgrims, all from Maharashtra, who arrived in Nepal for a 10-day tour were killed and 16 others injured after their bus veered off the highway and fell into a fast-flowing river in central Nepal on Friday.
Speech by External Affairs Minister S M Krishna at launch of the "India Initiative" by the Brown University
Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon, was launched on October 22, 2008 from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh.
Uber Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dara Khosrowshahi sees India as one of the toughest markets and a standard to succeed in any other part of the world. One of the biggest challenges for the ride-hailing firm, according to Khosrowshahi, is the expectation of Indian consumers for more services at lower spending. "India is one of the toughest markets out there.
She's living her best days as the newest Ambani bride-to-be.
Heel pain can be due to plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis or heel pad syndrome, says rediffGURU Dr Shakeeb Ahmed Khan.
From 11-year-old to 60-plus, Olympics is playground for all
The results were the same in seniors, with a median age of 76, and caregivers, with a median age of 48, and old alike, according to the researchers.
The signatories to the letter include scholars from universities across the globe including the New York University, the Brown University, the Harvard, the Columbia and prominent IITs.
Planet Nine, if it exists, is somewhere between 6-10 times the mass of Earth, and it may have an orbit that takes it around the sun once every 1,500 Earth years or more.
Biden's statement announcing Jha's appointment praised him as one of the leading public health experts in America and "a well known figure to many Americans from his wise and calming public presence."
San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (SFERS), Brown University and Texas Investment Management have joined the list of global pension, endowment and universities' funds attracted by the Indian stock markets.
Trump's attack against Haley, a daughter of Indian immigrants who served as his UN ambassador, comes days before a hotly contested New Hampshire primary that could determine the trajectory of the party's presidential nomination contest.
The police of Providence, Rhode Island, has launched a massive search operation to find Tripathi, while his friends have not only been doing their own search, putting up posters across the city, but also have launched a Facebook page to find him.
Think Playboy, and you think of lingerie, R-rated films and all things adult -- definitely not a PhD from an Ivy League university. But Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh-born Rashmi Sinha, who did her doctorate in cognitive neuropsychology from Brown University, finds herself featured on the quintessential adult magazine, as one of America's 'Sexiest CEOs'.
The family of Sunil Tripathi, the Indian-American student whose body was recovered from the Providence river in the US state of Rhode Island, has said that the 22-year-old had shown signs of depression prior to his disappearance.
Lakshmi Balachandra of Boston College and Ishani Tewari of Brown University were among 15 exceptional doctoral students honored by the Kauffman Foundation with its annual Dissertation Fellowship. Each of them will get $20,000 to support their dissertation research in the area of entrepreneurship.
The 19-year-old Harry Potter star was spotted wearing a simple white T-shirt, denim shorts, and trainers in her campus at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.
If the wars continue, they are on track to require at least another $450 billion in Pentagon spending by 2020.
Scientists used a new calibration of data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper which flew aboard Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in 2008.
Rediff.com takes a look at some defining moments of the nine-year war in Iraq.
Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has beamed back images of the Orientale Basin on the western limb of the moon. An analysis of the images indicates abundance of iron-bearing minerals such as pyroxene, said Carle Pieters, a senior scientist of US-based Brown University and principal investigator for the M3 experiment.
Though the Indian Space Research Organization had to prematurely terminate the country's first moon exploration mission after it lost radio contact with Chandrayaan-1 over the weekend, the probe is already said to have yielded a treasure trove of useful data. This suggestion comes from Carle Pieters, a planetary geologist at Brown University in Rhode Island, the principal investigator of the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a NASA instrument on Chandrayaan-1.
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Indian-American Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being defeated in 15 states across the United States on Super Tuesday, paving the way for a rematch between her rival Donald Trump and incumbent Joe Biden in the November elections.
A fresh analysis of volcanic glass collected during the Apollo missions in the 1970s has revealed that the Moon's parched surface has water hidden beneath it, a major finding that dispels the notion that the Moon is dry.
The team observed a dialogue between the hippocampus and the neocortex, areas of the brain where memories are made and stored.
Rohit Shetty returns with the 13th season of the adventure reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi, and the contestant line-up seems quite interesting.
The reasons are too private to be discussed at a round table, listed out during a seminar, or uncovered in an academic course. A proud but insomniac connoisseur murmuring in his sleep may do a better job of explaining the phenomenon than an expert on a podium. Sreehari Nair airs his thoughts.
'For Hrithik Roshan to make sure that I come to his house and listen to that compliment from his chachi, I think there can't be a bigger recognition to me.'
rediffGURU Komal Jethmalani suggests starting off with small and frequent meals.
Take a note from the beauty queen on how to turn heads at the airport.
A top Indian American scientist who heads the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University, will be inducted into the Institute of Medicine in recognition of his research into cell mechanics related to malaria, blood diseases and certain types of cancer.
Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, Kavita Ramanan, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Dilip Da Cunha, architect, planner and teacher at Harvard University and Columbia University, Mukul Sharma, professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, and Tahera Qutbuddin, professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2020 Guggenheim fellowships.
A NASA spacecraft has detected deposits of glass on Mars.
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