The Australian government has demanded the country's most funded sports rein in gender discrimination for travel arrangements to major events or risk having their support cut.
This week's digest of stories that are weird, true and funny.
'Prevention plus vaccination is what is going to take us into better territory by September or October.'
Education was ahead of the British car industry, food beverages and tobacco, which earned £10 billion in exports, says a report.
Rediff.com brings you some images of the Mahatma's statues erected around the globe.
'Our government's claim that there are no undetected cases of infection that happened within our bustling cities because of exposure to infected international travellers are not credible,' notes Rahul Jacob.
All this is happening at a time when aluminium prices in the world market are firming up.
'India's first and longest-serving prime minister created -- or at the very least imagined -- a modern, democratic nation-State of the 20th century,' says Sunil Sethi.
The International Institute of Fine Arts and the University of London have signed an MoU.
Based on a feedback, the exchange could cap a sector's weight at 25 per cent, or align with the broader market.
Millions of people worldwide are having to embrace life under lockdown -- confined to their own four walls or neighbourhoods for weeks on end as countries battle to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
British Minister of State for Immigration and Citizenship Tony McNulty presented the award to Bilimoria, who is the youngest chancellor of the Thames Valley University.
An overarching law governing public healthcare is a glaring gap in India's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In India it is left to individuals to quarantine themselves voluntarily. Moreover, the 123-year old The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, governs healthcare emergencies in India.
Noah Lyles always wanted to be the next great sprinter after Usain Bolt retired and the 20-year-old American took a big step toward that goal with the year's fastest 100 metres at the US Championships in Iowa on Friday.
'Maybe this Twenty20 fashion that is just developing will be the next big phase in the game,' says cricket journalist Christopher Martin Jenkins.
The Indian mixed 4x400m relay team qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after reaching the final in the World Athletics Championships, in Doha.
You want the name of a top foreign B-School to feature on your resume. International education expert Karan Gupta has a few recommendations.
The Indian batting ace marked his comeback from shoulder surgery with a 91-ball 100 for Lashings World XI against Cambridge University XI.
'Vigilance is the enemy of the virus.' 'We need to be alert all the time, about this, until we fully understand it.' 'And that's going to take years, actually.'
'That's why people want tiger skin and tiger clothes,' says Ruth Padel, Charles Darwin's great grand daughter.
The dead and wounded were members of a delegation from China's University of National Defence.
While women tend to recover more fully from a break-up, men simply move on, a new study has found.
India-born Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as president elect of Britain's prestigious Royal Society.
Rediff.com takes a look at some of the most prominent politicians across the world as they get jiggy with it.
Dr Mahmood Alam, an Indian scientist, is among a group of top international scientists who has identified a key protein that if targeted stops malaria, paving the way for new treatments.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month.
Both men and women said giving oral sex was more distasteful for men than women.
On Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's 124th birth anniversary we take a look at his inspiring life journey.
People who constantly write e-mails / text messages and attend phone calls suffer a greater loss of IQ and concentration than those who smoke marijuana, says a report in The Guardian quoting a recent study.
Their pics will send you into a food coma!
Opt for foods low on salt, high in iron, protein and calcium.
A leading American scientist has warned that world may run out of effective antibiotics by the end of this decade and that it could take at least five years before new drugs can be developed to combat superbugs.
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Apart from being disgusting, it can make you seriously ill!
After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys everything that falls into it, Stephen Hawking says he was wrong.
Professor Daniel Miller is one of team of eight ethnographic researchers based at University College London who are working on a study across seven countries including India, China, Brazil and the UK to examine social media trends.
Uncorking the business of vintage wines and spirits.
