'We need to push back on fake news very hard'

'We have to believe that in the long run, stable and secure societies thrive on a reputable news culture and people will recognise this.'   The BBC remains one of the most popular sources of......

On Wednesday, ISRO will go where no nation has gone before

On the morning of February 15, ISRO will hurl into space using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle three Indian satellites and 101 small foreign satellites.No other country has ever tried to hit a......

With an eye on Venus and Mars, ISRO attempts mega world record

India will boldly go to Venus for the first time and re-visit the Red Planet very soon. Buried and hidden in the hundreds of pages of the new format electronic budget documents, is the first......

Database State to Surveillance State

UID/Aadhaar-based surveillance does not end with the collection of fingerprints and iris scan, it goes quite beyond it and poses a lethal threat to the idea of India, says Gopal......

Advertising: Another turn of the wheel due?

The world awaits a creative breakthrough for mobile phone ads, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. Advertising in its many forms has long had an uneasy relationship......

Scribe breaks into Olympic stadium easily

A British journalist detained by Greek police for entering Olympic facilities on a security expose boasted on Friday how she wandered round "with extraordinary ease" for several hours before being......

Day 15: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Sweden beat Britain to win men's curling gold IMAGE: Sweden's Christoffer Sundgren, Vice Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranaa and Daniel Magnusson react after winning the curling men's gold medal game......