Tejas crash: IAF pilot's village mourns a life lost too soon

Namansh is survived by his father, mother, wife, who is also serving in the Air Force, and their six-year-old daughter.  IMAGE: Relatives of Wing Commander Namansh Syal mourn his loss in the LCA......

Why Educated Muslim Youth Join Terror Modules

Radical Islamist networks are deliberately targeting Muslim youths embedded within the country's professional and academic ecosystems, leveraging their skills, mobility, and digital reach to......

Kerala group in Dubai faces flak for welcoming Pak cricketer

A Kerala expatriate community in Dubai, which is facing intense online backlash over a warm welcome extended to Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi in a recent programme, has apologised for the......

'She Was Surely Among The Toppers'

'Though a foreigner on campus, she carried herself with confidence.' IMAGE: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed Dr Harini Amarasuriya as Sri Lanka's 16th prime minister,......

Give more perks to faculty: IIT alumni

Concerned by the poor quality of research and need for better faculty, the alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, on Wednesday recommended that more perks should be given to the......

IIT Madras raises Rs 231 cr in funding from alumni, firms, donors in FY23

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) said on Monday that it had raised the highest-ever corpus of annual funds for the institution, garnering Rs 231 crore from alumni, industry and......

Abhijit Banerjee, 2nd Presidency alumni to win Nobel in Economics

Amartya Sen was the other Presidency alumni to win the Economics Nobel. Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize along with two others - his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on Monday "for......

Adani gives Teachers' Day lecture at college that rejected him

Gautam Adani had in the late 1970s applied to join a Mumbai college for education, but the college rejected his application. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters He did not pursue education but turned......

Who Is Kajol Cheering For?

'I was just seeing myself here and was like ‘damn, I made it!''Rediff's Mayur Sanap, Hitesh Harisinghani and Afsar Dayatar report from the teaser launch of Tanvi The Great. IMAGE: Kajol,......

Ratan Tata: A lifelong champion of Indian sports

IMAGE: Ratan Tata with former Jamshedpur FC coach Steve Coppell during launch of the football club in 2017. Photograph: Jamshedpur FC Fans/Instagram From the time Sir Dorabji Tata sponsored a......

Is India-born Gulati in line for BIG FIFA post?

Infantino begins search for non-European chief executive IMAGE: President of the United States Soccer Federation Sunil Gulati,. Photograph: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images The victory celebration......

Indian origin leggie in Aus T20 squad

IMAGE: Tanveer Sangha has been impressive in his debut season in the Big Bash League, taking 21 wickets fo Sydney Thunder. Photograph: Mike Owen/Getty Images Tanveer Sangha is only the second......

Coming soon: Battery-powered masks for Indian athletes

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Kiren Rijiju Official/Twitter Claiming to be the best in ensuring optimum oxygen for the wearer, battery-operated masks designed by an IIT-Kharagpur alumni will be put on......

NFL: Washington Redskins to consider changing name of team

IMAGE: The team that became the Washington Redskins was founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves. They changed their name to the Redskins the following year and moved to Washington, DC, in 1937.......