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'Human sacrifice' at CERN in front of Shiva statue?

Scientists are flabbergasted by the video showing a 'human sacrifice' near a Chola period statue gifted to CERN by India. Pallava Bagla reports. Human sacrifice, Lord Shiva's statue, a nuclear......

WTF News! It's Weird, True and Funny

Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world. She's selling her wedding dress on eBay to fund divorce from husband In a bizarre incident, a 28-year-old woman in the UK......

How the Internet was born, 25 years ago

November 12 marked 25 years of the beginning of the World Wide Web. Shivanand Kanavi gives us the story of how it all began. 'Great Cloud. Please help me. I am away from my beloved and miss her......

Discovering the universe, one particle at a time

The world's largest and most respected centre for scientific research has shown how collaborative effort in the acrimonious field of particle physics can prove of enormous benefit to mankind.......

Best April Fools' pranks: Meat cleaver phone, a selfie car...

Here is presenting some of the best pranks on April Fools’ Day this year that people actually fell for! And we are not talking about personal pranks either -- biggies such as Samsung and even......

How the Web lost its innocence

Ajit Balakrishnan on how the Web could return to its original egalitarian goals.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com It all started in 1989 with an inter-office memo, describing in very humble......

Mallya interview: Why complaint to cyber police may go in vain

The Sunday Guardian has defended the interview and put the mail trail on its website. Tycoon Vijay Mallya's complaint to the cyber crime police in Mumbai to investigate an e-mail interview in The......

Do we really need the meteorological department?

I rejoiced with the rest of the world when the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) almost announced the "discovery" of the elusive Higgs boson a few days ago, even though I do not......

The Web is 20 years old! What next?

Twenty years ago, a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of a project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, and also designed a crude website......

WWW inventor admits forward slashes 'a mistake'

Nearly two decades after he invented the world wide web, British scientist Sir Tim Berners -Lee has admitted that "forward slashes" in Internet addresses "were a mistake". Claiming the // at the......

Indian students bag race car award

Sixteen Indian students, who set out to the United Kingdom against all odds to participate in the 'Formula Student 2003 car exhibition', were rewarded for their efforts with the second place in the......

'We are competing against the best'

When 16 intrepid students of the Delhi College of Engineering decided to build a racing car, manylaughed it off asa pipe dream.Butthe detractors were left eating humblepie whenthe students took off......

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