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Trump's 5% Rule: How Will It Affect Indian Students?

Trump's 5% Rule: How Will It Affect Indian Students?

Rediff.com14 Oct 2025

Trump's proposed policy limits undergraduates from any one country to 5% at select top US universities, raising concerns for Indian aspirants eyeing elite colleges.

Mohammad Yunus: The Nobel laureate Prof who will head new Bangladesh govt

Mohammad Yunus: The Nobel laureate Prof who will head new Bangladesh govt

Rediff.com7 Aug 2024

Life has come full circle for Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, who faced persecution during Sheikh Hasina's regime for embezzlement, is now all set to head of the interim government in Bangladesh after she resigned and fled the country.

Why you shouldn't yawn while driving

Why you shouldn't yawn while driving

Rediff.com28 Jul 2009

Forming an international team with United States experts, an IIT Kharagpur researcher is developing a new in-car yawn-detection system that will keep an eye on a driver while behind the wheel.The researchers have revealed that it is based around an in-car camera hooked up to image-processing software that captures a sequence of images of the driver's face.

Want to avert diabetes? Pop a Viagra

Want to avert diabetes? Pop a Viagra

Rediff.com19 Nov 2015

Taking the male potency pill may benefit the patients at diabetes risk, according to a new study.

WHO stops trial of anti-malarial drug for COVID-19 treatment

WHO stops trial of anti-malarial drug for COVID-19 treatment

Rediff.com26 May 2020

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that in view of a paper published last week in the Lancet medical journal, that showed people taking hydroxychloroquine were at higher risk of death and heart problems than those that were not.

Hydroxychloroquine consignment from India arrives in US

Hydroxychloroquine consignment from India arrives in US

Rediff.com12 Apr 2020

Hydroxychloroquine has been identified by the US Food and Drug Administration as a possible treatment for the COVID-19 and it is being tested on more than 1,500 coronavirus patients in New York.

Soon, cell phones that recharge themselves in seconds

Soon, cell phones that recharge themselves in seconds

Rediff.com24 Oct 2013

The super-capacitor designed by material scientists at Vanderbilt University is the first made out of silicon so it can be built into a silicon chip along with the microelectronic circuitry that it powers.

US: Blue and White or Inclusive Nation?

US: Blue and White or Inclusive Nation?

Rediff.com11 Nov 2020

Biden and Harris are the leaders we need at this time to do the painful but necessary work of creating a more inclusive -- and united -- nation, points out Murali Kamma.

Numero Uno: This Indian has won the math Nobel

Numero Uno: This Indian has won the math Nobel

Rediff.com5 Sep 2014

Dr Manjul Bhargava speaks to P Rajendran about winning the Fields Medal, math's biggest global honour.

Amul Thapar becomes second Indian-American judge of US Court of Appeals

Amul Thapar becomes second Indian-American judge of US Court of Appeals

Rediff.com26 May 2017

Trump nominated Thapar for the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals.

'Bacteria don't respect borders or boundaries'

'Bacteria don't respect borders or boundaries'

Rediff.com17 Jan 2014

'We ought to do something now because even the bacteria we have treatments for now we don't use wisely... We have reached a point where there aren't any new antibiotics coming out... Patients must get the right antibiotic at the right dose for the right amount of time,' says Dr Arjun Srinivasan, the acclaimed scientist who is an expert on bacterial resistance.

How dependent visa shatters the American dream

How dependent visa shatters the American dream

Rediff.com2 Jul 2014

The US dependent visa puts many restrictions on the spouses, mostly women, of the skilled workers who have an H1-B visa. Some even felt like they were thrown back into a model of the 'traditional family' where women are not valued at all outside of the home.

An open letter to the Congress party: Remember the Aam Aadmi?

An open letter to the Congress party: Remember the Aam Aadmi?

Rediff.com21 Jun 2013

Few readers will remember the socialist utopia of Indira Gandhi when food queues were the norm even for the middle class and tankers supplied water at odd hours of the night twice a week. Is that what you are trying to return us to, dear Congress, asks Jaideep Prabhu