Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, Kavita Ramanan, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Dilip Da Cunha, architect, planner and teacher at Harvard University and Columbia University, Mukul Sharma, professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, and Tahera Qutbuddin, professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2020 Guggenheim fellowships.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
A plot by Islamist militants to blow up the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre art museum and a nuclear power plant has been foiled, the French police said.
People have developed a fatalistic attitude where they believe that anything can happen. They think, 'there's no medicine, no beds in the hospitals, what are we alive for?' And when you get that kind of an attitude, you stop taking precautions
Use a "virtual credit card" for every online transaction when you can't pay cash on delivery.
'Look inwards. Before you complain how bad your senior is, ask yourself: Are you being the best subordinate to your boss?' Swapnil Kamat, CEO, Work Better India has advice for you.
In December 2016, the Supreme Court directed the central government to have a graded action plan to tackle the menace of air pollution. There are two plans - Comprehensive Action Plan and Graded Response Action Plan.
Just 42,800 people in a country of 1.2 billion admit to earning taxable incomes of Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) or more, though India is fast emerging as a top performer in churning out millionaires and multimillionaires.
Anirudh Belle and Vineeth Samdaria, both 21, want to change the way urban youths vote.
In this special series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics. Today, we look back at Subhash Ghai's 1983 blockbuster Hero that launched two relative newcomers into overnight stardom.
Netflix has unveiled a line-up of 15 original series as well as returning seasons of popular shows.
India captain Virat Kohli reveals how tips from Sachin Tendulkar and Ravi Shastri post that disastrous tour helped him become the player he is today.
The traditional practice of yoga has seen numerous variations. Know the difference says Priyanka Sharma of Business Standard.
The system could improve the way people interact with computers and perhaps allow disabled people to use computer-based communications devices, such as voice synthesisers, more effectively.
We decode the Duchess of Sussex's second royal outing look.
Students will mostly benefit from the new format, says Ajit Padwal, Founder, Lakshya IAS Academy, Mumbai. He decodes what the new paper holds for aspirants and tells us why the UPSC, barring a few exceptions, has mostly got it right.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Ram Gopal Varma's films have been at the extreme ends of the Bollywood spectrum. Ranjeeta Ganesan decodes the original poster boy of "new wave" cinema
Soon after Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Union Budget 2013 in Parliament, Trinamool Congress leader and former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi joined us for the Budget chat.
Charity donations have suffered as the uber-rich are preferring to maintain their opulent lifestyles over philanthropy in the gloomy economic environment, a specially commissioned report to "decode" the high networth families said.
Decoding #mondaymotivation mantras of celebs!
Images from Day 3 of the ICC World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand, at The Hampshire Bowl, in Southampton, on Saturday.
'A lovely boy with a heart of gold', 'A man who regrets his days as a drug addict', 'A boy gone astray' -- Sanjay Dutt's friends swear by him. Malavika Sangghvi decodes the man who's in trouble, yet again.
What does the high voters' turnout of 68 per cent in first phase of Gujarat election mean? Sheela Bhatt tries to find out.
Malaika shares her favourite, easy-to-do asanas and their benefits for a fitter and healthier lifestyle.
Hitesh Harisinghani decodes the madness behind the glitz and glamour.
Should you be popping the champagne or perhaps sulking around? Salil Dhawan decodes the budget and tells what it has in store for people like us.
The agency's poor track record in convictions is the only light at the end of a rather long tunnel for the couple, observes Shyamal Majumdar.
Which college, which course, is there a job at the end? The decision tree for a college is very complex. Careers360 decodes it for you.
'We would advise investors to hold on to multi-cap funds and not invest further until further clarity emerges.'
'Counter-insurgency operations cannot be conducted by following inflexible SOPs.' 'It is unwise to enter jungles with a large body of troops without precise intelligence,' asserts counter-insurgency expert Brigadier Narender Kumar (retd).
Ravi Handa, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and a faculty at IMS Learning helps you decode strategies to solve Data Interpretation problems in CAT. Read on.
Stephen Hawking, who has decoded some of the most puzzling secrets of the universe, has revealed that for him women are the only enduring mystery of the universe he has found impossible to crack.
B Raman decodes the complicated chain of accusations, denials and public avowals of friendship that characterises the relationship between the United States and Pakistan
Are you appearing for CAT and GMAT this year? Want to know what is the difference between the two? Ashish N of EducationAisle decodes it right here.
Months after the triple bombings rocked Mumbai on July 13 this year, most counter-terrorism experts were willing to shove the 13/7 investigations under the rug as 'yet another case with a dead end.' However, rediff.com's Toral Varia finds that the Anti-Terrorism Squad has successfully managed to join the dots by decoding the CCTV footage. Here are the EXCLUSIVE details.
Early this week, Malini Murmur, a student of IIM-Bangalore committed suicide following a status update on her boyfriend's Facebook wall. The author decodes the girl's likes and dislikes, her passions and psyche through her profile.
Mathematical problems can sometimes turn out to have real-world applications. This is true for the Riemann Hypothesis. Crypto-currency investors will heave a sigh of relief if the problem is unsolved since a proof could render their expertise obsolete, explains Devangshu Datta.
"Though we reiterate our commitment to peace, our defence forces -- the army, the air force and the navy -- are adequately mobilised in a well-coordinated move to thwart any attempt to undermine our security. Our national interest will be protected at all costs. We have also ensured a widespread understanding in the international community of India's firm and principled stand," the President said. India and China are locked in a nearly nine-month long military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
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