Images To Remember 2024

Some more glimpses from the year gone by. Part 1 In The Series: Yes, It Happened This Year   IMAGE: Cows and buffaloes wade into the polluted Yamuna river on a smoggy morning in New Delhi,......

Total Solar Eclipse: Breathtaking Scenes

On Monday, April 8, 2024, millions of people across parts of Mexico, Canada and the United States watched the rare total solar eclipse. The Mexican beachside resort town of Mazatlan was the first......

Come To India, Modi Tells US Teachers

'If we want our economies to be strong, we need to invest in young people who are our future.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi and Dr Jill Biden. Photograph: All photographs: Abhijit J Masih......

'Xi's Main Challenge Is Taking Over Taiwan'

'Even though as Xi will seemingly continue to stay in power beyond his third term, competitions for the post-Xi leadership would be inevitably unfolded beneath the surface of water, and that will......

10 Indians who are heading top tech firms, exciting projects

From being ridiculed by the western world for being a land of snake charmers, Indians have established themselves on the global business stage. Image: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Photograph,......

Meet 10 Indians who head global tech companies

With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.  Image: Sundar Pichai with wife Anjali. Photograph: Stephen......

Explaining the why of algorithmic conclusions

Ajit Balakrishnan on the emerging crisis in the tech world.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com There was a deathly silence in that vast hall of a thousand-plus data mining and artificial......

Paris protests muted but world speaks up for climate change

The French have scored a diplomatic coup by reversing the order of proceedings in such summits. Beginning with Rio de Janeiro in 1992, national leaders arrive at the end of the summit to ratify......

Leonard Cohen passes into the ages

'We have lost one of music's most revered and prolific visionaries.' Visionary. Poet. Singer. Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has passed into the ages. He was 82. Cohen's label, Sony......