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Amartya Sen receives Humanities Award from Obama

Amartya Sen, economist and a Nobel Prize winner in economics, has been felicitated with the National Medals of Arts and Humanities Award by United States President Barack Obama at a glittering......

Obama to felicitate Amartya Sen

United States President Barack Obama would felicitate India-born Nobel laureate Amartya Sen with the 2011 National Humanities Medal, along with others, the White House announced on Saturday. The......

Japan: Tsunami and after

Eighteen days after the 8.9 quake hit Japan, and the ensuing Tsunami that wreaked havoc, its people are yet to accept their fate. As life slowly crawls to normal, the nation is learning to cope and......

Godhra: 'What happened to the accused is a crime'

Krishnakumar Padmanabhan finds hope, despair and anger in Godhra February 23, Godhra's Signal Falia area is buzzing. The previous night, police buses carrying 63 people acquitted in the 2002......

Earth to get a second Sun in 2011!

The Earth could soon have a second Sun when one of the brightest stars in the night sky explodes into a supernova.The cosmic phenomenon, which may happen as soon as this year and remain for at......

Buying a health cover? Read the fine print

Parag Desai, 41, needs to renew his family health insurance policy. On going through his policy details, he notices the maximum renewal age offered by his insurer was 60 years. He isn't sure if......

Breaking down Ulip charges for you

Traditional insurance policies do not disclose the charges. Unit-linked insurance products are more transparent about the charges. The various charges on a Ulip include: Premium allocation......

Govt to probe into 2G spectrum allocation since 2001

The government on Thursday appointed a one-man committee of retired Supreme Court justice Shivaraj V Patil to probe the alleged irregularities in the allocation of 2G spectrum since 2001, a period......

ONGC is Asia's no. 1 oil co, pips China's Cnooc

India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has beaten Chinese rival Cnooc to become Asia's top oil and gas exploration and production company. Under the stewardship of R S Sharma, ONGC climbed three......

How India can ring in a telecom revolution

The rollout of telecom services has been phenomenal over the past few years. Tele-density has shot up from around 9 per cent in 2005 to 57 per cent in August 2010, with more than 15 million mobile......

Ranveer: Al Pacino can't do what Govinda can

'I would place Govinda among the best performers in the world, like Daniel Day Lewis, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro… I'll put him up there.' 'You give Govinda a director like Martin Scorsese and......

PHOTO: Abhishek Bachchan meets Al Pacino

Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting. Abhishek Bachchan was recently in London to to attend Hollywood actor Al Pacino's one man act An Evening With Pacino.......

Al Pacino to play Napoleon

Academy award winner Al Pacino, who longtime wished to play Napoleon, now gets a chance to play the French emperor in an on-screen adaptation of children's book - Betsy and the Emperor. GC Corp,......

Pacino shines in Merchant of Venice

First, the good news. Al Pacino, whogave over-the-top performances for nearly a decade, has slowed down in the new screen adaptation of The Merchant Of Venice. There are scenes in which he has to......

Where is Al Pacino?

Unlike his buddy Dustin Hoffman, who enjoys attending film festivals, Al Pacino prefers staying away. Which is why many reporters were pleasantly surprised to find his name on the press conference......

Images: Birthday boy Taylor sinks Pak

Birthday boy Ross Taylor smashed a whirlwind unbeaten century to set up an emphatic 110-run win for New Zealand against Pakistan in their Group A match in Pallekele on Tuesday. - Scorecard ......

WC: Manu-Mande visit the Mecca of Indian cricket

From the Mecca of Indian cricket -- Shivaji Park -- Rediff staffers, Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande analyse today's game! Will today's game belong to the Windies on the Proteas?......

Shooters' surge checked by Asiad blip

Fortunes ebbed and flowed but Indian shooters, led by the mercurial Gagan Narang, experienced more highs than lows in a year that saw them clinch a record 30 medals in the Commonwealth Games in......

We've achieved nothing yet, says Eng coach Flower

England played the "perfect" game in Adelaide to take a 1-0 lead over Australia in the Ashes series but there was little danger of complacency as the team had achieved nothing so far, coach Andy......

Images: Vettel is a champion in a hurry

From the very first moment he arrived in Formula One as a curly-haired teenager, new world champion Sebastian Vettel was a young man in a hurry. The 23-year-old Red Bull Driver, who became the......

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