'By taking over these reactors, it will ensure Ukraine's supply of electricity is cut off.'
You can light up your house, use the water pumps, run saw mills, flour mills using Rai Singh's bio-mass gassifier.
We asked you to share tips, suggestions and stories of how you are preventing coronavirus.
Amid outrage over the controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad by the Bharatiya Janata Party's now-sacked two functionaries, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said it is high time Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on the 'proliferation of hate speech and Islamophobic incidents' in the country, asserting that his silence is interpreted by some as condoning what has been happening.
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Why the 2020 Padma Shri Awards are an honour truly worth celebrating.
Anita Aikara/Rediff.com shares pics from her travel to the Andaman Islands.
Rajesh Karkera journeys through verdant countryside to the little-explored pristine Lonar lake in eastern Maharashtra.
Fifty years ago today, December 25, 1972, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of the titans of India's freedom struggle, passed into the ages. Kalki Krishnamurthy, who penned the Tamil classic Ponniyin Selvan among numerous other novels, describes his first glimpse of the man who would become an august national leader and his cherished role model.
A simple act of generosity has gone a long mile, women of the locality no longer have to battle over water.
'They asked me if I was a devout Muslim and if I could recite the Kalma.' Flying Officer Jawahar Lal Bhargava knew his game was up. 'They threatened me with dire consequences if I didn't tell the truth.'
Indrani laughed loudly. She looked like the cat that got the cream, smiling gaily. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.
Laxmi Sorte and Kaustav Ghosh, who travelled across 29 Indian states and five Union territories in 101 days, recommend a list of lesser known places in India to add to your travel bucket list.
Deepak G C, 49, an electrical engineer, shares his fascinating story.
Mandar Jog shares a list of things he learned during the lockdown.
'We were exporting copper at that time. Now India is importing copper to the tune of around $1.2 billion. Moreover, there was a larger impact on the dependent MSMEs.'
The stock, which is a play on the growth story of Indian Railways, has corrected 15 per cent from its 52-week high level of Rs 2,072.95 scaled on March 9. Yet, this has not deterred brokerages from holding a bullish view on the stock.
Caught in the devastating floods in Srinagar, a social worker refuses to leave his autistic students behind and swim to safety.
Punjab faces many mortal threats. For most of these the people of Punjab are themselves responsible. And unless they take a brutal hard look within, their future generations have to be resigned to continue living with this constant slide, warns Shekhar Gupta.
'He knows what he doesn't want and likes exploring the rest with his cast and crew, so it's like a journey of making something beautiful together.'
After Arjun Reddy became a blockbuster and turned its lead actor Vijay Deverakonda into an overnight superstar, it has been remade in Hindi as Kabir Singh.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship attempts to give you the chills but they don't, feels Moumita Bhattacharya.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
All of India welcomes the Light Combat Helicopter into the Armed Forces arsenal and wishes it a safe tenure and happy shooting. May it rule the skies and ensure that the enemies are given a fitting reply when the need arises.
Start-ups don't care that mad-money funding comes to a hard stop after an IPO, observes Debashis Basu. As a listed entity, corporate actions have to take the interests of all shareholders, especially minority shareholders, into account. So far, we are not seeing any sign of it, observes Debashis Basu.
The BJP believes that the only party still capable of leading a credible challenge against it is the Congress. Please note how BJP campaigners in states where the Congress may count for a cipher or thereabouts, mostly attack the Congress, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Borschberg is keen on the halt in Varanasi as a spiritual stopover.
Suhani Sheshodia shares her amazing weight loss journey.
From playing to the Sikh vote bank because Punjab elections are round the corner, to ensuring that a discordant 'us versus them' note was struck, whatever could be done to exploit every last drop of communal appeal, was done, observes Jyoti Punwani.
India has undermined its own credibility.
Rediff reader Aastha Bhat, 16, from Faridabad, Haryana tells us how she lost weight.
If you are all in for thrills, London has a new offering: A pool positioned nearly 115 feet in the air. Welcome to The Sky Pool -- a 82-foot (25-metre) transparent swimming pool stretched between the 10th stories of two residential skyscrapers in southwest London's Nine Elms neighbourhood -- and it's only open to the apartment complex's lucky residents. Here's at how amazing it looks!
Rediff reader DS Haridas shares a list of precautionary measures he follows follow while stepping out.
>The farmers will go home but the country will not get the agricultural reform it badly needs -- if nothing else, then to prevent a bigger water crisis than already exists, argues T N Ninan.
'Bigg Boss is there for 100 days but I have to be in the industry for the rest of my life. If I start behaving like a buffoon, and start shouting, screaming, playing dirty games and physically manhandling people, whatever I have earned in these years will go down the drain.' Aman Verma explains his stint in the popular reality show.
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma answers your health queries.
Block your Ex from social media. Disconnect completely and fully if you want to truly move on for a fresh start. Remember, healing cannot happen from the same place the hurt came from.
The aftermath of Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan has led to an argument that there was no religion as Hinduism in Chola times.
Instead, there was only Saivism, Vaishnavism, etc, and that the Cholas were Saivites, and hence not Hindus, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
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