Dr Jay Narayan has won the 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal and Prize, an international award given to one person annually for exceptional research contributions and leadership in materials science worldwide.
An independent inspector will look into possible structural damage caused by an October fire at a World Cup stadium in western Brazil, following a Reuters report that the blaze was far worse than government officials have previously said.
Rediff reader Srinivas Samudrala, 58 from Telangana shares his story.
Several carmakers, including car market leader Maruti Suzuki India pulled the plug on diesel models citing higher costs for BSVI variants leaving buyers with limited options.
Five metres below the surface of the North Sea, near the southernmost tip of Norway, Europe's first underwater restaurant is now complete. Welcome to Under -- Europe's first underwater restaurant. Designed by Norwegian outfit Snhetta, the building is part-sunk into the sea and is encased in a concrete shell designed to withstand the harsh conditions on the seabed of Norway's rugged southern coast. Take a tour of the fascinating place.
Workers have now just to install thousands of blue carbon plastic-like panels that will offer shading against soaring summer temperatures.
Given how everything has played out, Mehul Choksi, now 62, achieved all that he wanted but for all the wrong reasons, says Pavan Lall.
Four more officers of the Hyderabad-based construction company in-charge of building the Vivekanda Road flyover, a portion of which collapsed last week, were arrested on Monday.
An area of worry relates to simplification of the refund procedure where the inverted duty structure prevails
US-based firm is making a supersonic aircraft that is more efficient and practical than Concorde.
In an online chat with Rediff.com readers, personal finance expert Anil Rego answered queries about the new tax regime announced in the Union Budget.
'Modi has not lacked courage in the political sphere. It is time he showed it in the economic sphere as well.' 'To do this, he needs to shed the simple-minded nostrums about economic growth and swadeshi that he learnt in the Sangh Parivar,' suggests Virendra Kapoor.
Olympic Silver medalist Mirabai Chani's feat is a story of grit, dedication and desire, but it isn't unique. In Manipur, discovers Vaibhav Raghunandan.
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has asked Air India to avoid flying its Dreamliner planes near thunderstorms as it enhanced the risk of icing on engines and the airline has changed its operating procedures accordingly.
Expert staff in the line of fire in the tech sector. Analysts attribute these job losses to a slowdown in growth, automation of lower-end work.
The tower, which will open on January 4 next year stands at over 800 metres, with 160 floors, and is equipped with the world's fastest elevators that will travel at 64 kmph, besides the world's tallest performing musical fountain.
The middle portion of the structure near Siliguri collapsed on a canal below at around 9.30 am when a truck was crossing it.
The company has decided to consolidate its delivery functions horizontally
Two skyscrapers were decimated the day 2,996 died, one and a half decades ago. George Joseph profiles the monument that has replaced them.
Speaking at last weekend's title deciding US Grand Prix in Austin, the 84-year-old Briton told reporters he hoped to add more American venues to a series that is already set for a record 21 races next year.
With the removal of huge amount of debris in Kedarnath posing the biggest challenge to the state government in calamity-hit Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Monday visited the Himalayan shrine along with a team of Engineers (India) Projects Limited experts to speed up the mammoth exercise.
Delhi College of Engineering (DCE Delhi) invites applications for admission to post-graduate courses under the Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi for the session 2009-10.
With an amazing start some of more interesting models to be launched this month are - Mercedes Maybach S600, Renault KWID, new Ford Figo and the Mahindra TUV300( launched recently)
Despite being election year, Indian ultra HNIs are more optimistic of the country's growth journey and expect wealth to increase in the year 2019.
Come 19th September and get ready to be swoon at the Frankfurt Auto Show with the series of line-up planned by BMW.
With the recovery of three more bodies from the debris, the death toll in Canacona building collapse in Goa has risen to 24 even as the operation to remove the rubble has entered its final phase.
'Our technology is going to help Indian agriculture the way the White Revolution helped milk production.'
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More than 500,000 Lego pieces were used to develop the car.
'Trading is about psychology; 75% of it is about keeping your emotions in check.'
This will enable the firm, a wholly-owned subsidiary called CIIE Initiatives, to buy stakes in the companies that it incubates by investing its time and resources.
Does IAS officers' work go unappreciated, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Force India, on Monday, unveiled its new car --VJM11 -- for the 2018 season, hours ahead of first testing.
For 60-year-old Chandigarh-based architect Namita Singh, designing the structure for the Ezhimala naval academy, India's premier naval officers' training centre, was a challenging task. But the toil was worth it, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh commissioned the establishment on January 8
Four persons were killed when a four-storey building collapsed in Inderlok area in North Delhi on Saturday.
The police lodged a suo motu case against unknown persons in connection with their involvement in the mishap, a police officer said.
'The economy will pick up in 2020 or a little later... When it picks up, will it reach 10%, 8% or still lower? It all depends on how realistic are the diagnosis and the prescriptions that follow,' says Professor K J Joseph.
Instead of targeting global imbalances per se, the narrative must change to the structure and direction of such asymmetries.
Lieutenant General Wei Fenghe's, China's new defence minister's, first guest of honour could be his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman.
The Reserve Bank had identified 12 accounts, each having more than Rs 5,000 crore of outstanding loans accounting for 25 per cent of total NPAs or bad loans of banks, for immediate referral for resolution under the bankruptcy law.
