'The heat shield technology for re-entry vehicles was first mastered in DRDO for the Agni missile.''This is why the Americans were so opposed to Agni in the 1980s, unlike other missiles -- it was a......
Ahmedabad was named the cleanest big city on Thursday, followed by Bhopal and Lucknow in the government's annual cleanliness survey, even as Indore, Surat, Navi Mumbai and Vijayawada were elevated......
The Delhi government on Sunday accused Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena of indulging in 'dirty politics' while asserting that the complaints filed by some officers alleging harassment by the Aam......
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Tuesday suspended three officials in the Narela Zone for alleged laxity in duty following the massive fire in a building in Mundka that claimed 27 lives.......
In a major boost for Bharat Biotech, the World Health Organisation has accepted its Expression of Interest for COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin and scheduled a pre-submission meeting on June 23, a step......
The tax department has created many circular traps -- flawed reporting formats, penalties for those who point out the flaws, and faceless assessors with no accountability.The result: Millions of......
Social stock exchange (SSE) saw its first listing on Wednesday, with SGBS Unnati Foundation becoming the first entity to take this route to avail financing. The foundation — engaged in......
Policymakers are increasingly calling for the creation of an early warning system to prevent future breakdowns of the global economy. But so far no one has answered the key questions of who would......
The average time lag between the date of occurrence of a fraud and its detection is 23 months; for large frauds (Rs 100 crore and above), it was 57 months. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) is considering a proposal to make insurance frauds a parameter for calculating credit scores in an attempt to put a lid on the......
Shami bowls 13 dots, clocks 139 kmph, smashes 17-ball-32 in Bengal victory IMAGE: Mohammed Shami has played his eighth SMAT T20 game in 16 days and has bowled his full quota in almost all the......
The murder trial of Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius will wind up on Friday, ending six months of at times gripping courtroom drama that transfixed his native South Africa and......
Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva has won his appeal against a two-match ban imposed by UEFA for diving in a Champions League qualifying game against Celtic. "Following examination of all the......
Veteran football official Madhav G Suvarna has been appointed match commissioner cum referee assessor by FIFA to oversee the2008 Olympic men's football qualifyingmatch between Iraq and North Korea......
Darrell Hair, the Australian umpire in the midst of the ball tampering row, may be considered for a new role next summer as an assessor of first-class umpires in England, a leading British paper......