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Have Climate Summits Lost The Mojo?

How the UN's flagship climate summit lost its direction and what's at stake. IMAGE: An aerial view of an area submerged in water amid heavy rainfall caused by cyclone Montha in Warangal, October......

Omar Yaghi: The Live-Wire Nobel Laureate

'It was from him I learnt that if you gave the student the freedom to find his own path, he would be more courageous to experiment.' IMAGE: Professor Omar Yaghi in his lab at the University of......

Is Arundhati Roy Scared Of The Really Powerful?

'Arundhati Roy is like a ballerina performing on a high wire, cool, supremely at ease but conscious of all the adoring eyes on her,' notes P Vijaya Kumar. IMAGE: Arundhati Roy signs her new book......

Time magazine salutes Sulabh founder

Sulabh International founder and well-known sanitation expert Bindeshwar Pathak has been named as one of the 31 "Environment Heroes" of this year by Time magazine. In its latest issue, the magazine......

Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Title crunch stalls foreign mags' entry

Non-availability of titles of several known international magazines with the Registrar of Newspapers for India has virtually stopped the entry of over two dozen foreign magazines in the country.......

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw among 'top 100 talented' people

Biocon CMD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been named in the world's top 100 ‘effective and talented’ people by US-based 'Scientific American' magazine, which hailed her contribution in......

Now, dense barcodes to store video!

Scientists have developed what they claim are new barcodes big enough to hold images or video which can then be downloaded by camera phones. A team at Edith Cowan University is looking for a way......

Indian may have found cure to HIV

A cure for the deadly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection might well be much closer than the world thought earlier. In a significant breakthrough, a group of scientists -- including an......

Arundhati Bhattacharya, 5th most powerful woman in finance: Forbes

Arundhati Bhattacharya has moved up five spots from the previous year to 5th this year. Arundhati Bhattacharya, the first woman chairperson of the nation's largest bank SBI, has been ranked......

Baahubali: Crown Of Blood Review: Intermittently Entertaining

Baahubali has generated an enterprise of television spin-offs, video games, graphic novels and what not, but a memorable Game Of Thrones it is not, observes Deepa Gahlot. Director of the two......

Taylor Swift Makes History At Grammys

Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters Taylor Swift made history at the Grammy awards on Sunday, February 4, 2024. Taylor is the first artiste to win Album of the Year four times, with her latest Grammy......

'Nobody is going to lie about box office figures'

'Fox makes films worth millions and millions of dollars. Fudging a few crores doesn't make much difference.' IMAGE: Akshay Kumar in Housefull 4. Someone rightly said an acting career is not......

Shah Rukh Khan: The King's Speech

Even as Mumbai's teenybopper population was drowning in Beiber-sized disappointment, my super-filmi week delighted in a breathtaking journey to Amazon, Satyajit Ray's fabulous use of fantasy to......

Soccer 'the most exciting sport'

It's official. Football has been the most exciting sport for the last 100 years, but baseball is catching up.A team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico studied a......

Bobby Fischer, the greatest chess player ever

He possessed an IQ of 180, higher than Albert Einstein's, but his life and career took unexpectedly bizarre routes.Dhruv Munjal salutes the strange genius of Bobby Fischer. IMAGE: Former world......

ISSF ratifies Heena Sidhu's world pistol mark

The world record set by Heena Sidhu-Pandit, who became the first Indian pistol shooter to bag an ISSF-World Cup Finals gold last November, has been ratified by the world shooting body. Heena shot a......

Bayern chief Hoeness to be tried for tax evasion

Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, once one of Germany's most admired soccer managers, goes on trial on Monday charged with tax evasion in a case that has shocked the nation and changed attitudes......