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How Indian students travelled during COVID-19

How Indian students travelled during COVID-19

Rediff.com20 Mar 2020

Indian students, who are living and studying away from home, tell us how they are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis and what they discovered on their journey back home.

Disaster in the making? Thousands evacuated as 27 UK towers fail fire safety test

Disaster in the making? Thousands evacuated as 27 UK towers fail fire safety test

Rediff.com24 Jun 2017

Residents of 650 flats in four tower blocks on an estate in the Swiss Cottage area of north London were evacuated on Friday night by the local Camden Council, following tests ordered in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze on June 14, which claimed at least 79 lives and displaced hundreds others.

'We soldiers fight for the Indians standing behind us'

'We soldiers fight for the Indians standing behind us'

Rediff.com1 Mar 2019

'When people who are safe in their homes think that everything is peaceful -- 'kuch nahi ho raha hai' -- it is because a band of soldiers has already stopped that from happening and the anti-nationals have been neutralised.'

'Cases will be around for 6 to 9 months'

'Cases will be around for 6 to 9 months'

Rediff.com16 Apr 2020

'The only idea -- the only idea -- of the shutdown was to buy time.'

NTPC plant explosion: Toll rises to 29; Rahul visits Raebareli

NTPC plant explosion: Toll rises to 29; Rahul visits Raebareli

Rediff.com2 Nov 2017

Rahul Gandhi has taken a break from his ongoing 'Navsarjan Yatra' in Gujarat to meet the families of victims of the explosion.

How Mumbai has taken on the COVID-19 challenge

How Mumbai has taken on the COVID-19 challenge

Rediff.com17 Apr 2020

'Mumbai is testing a lot compared to a lot of other places in the country.' 'Now that we exactly know where the hotspots are, and they've been converted into containment zones, there is a lot of testing, going on, from door to door and symptom screening.' 'In the last 10 to 15 days we have definitely done a good job.'

Setback for Adani; Queensland vetoes $900 mn loan proposal

Setback for Adani; Queensland vetoes $900 mn loan proposal

Rediff.com12 Dec 2017

The Adani group had applied for the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility loan for building the 388-km rail line to connect the Carmichael coal mine to the sea port.

Oil ministry asked to examine new gas pricing

Oil ministry asked to examine new gas pricing

Rediff.com11 Jul 2013

Media has raised the issues that new pricing to benefit Reliance Industries.

'What's more important? Feeding people or enriching 1 person?'

'What's more important? Feeding people or enriching 1 person?'

Rediff.com22 Mar 2017

'Why should farmers who give us food be vacated to hand over their property to a private company held by one individual,' asks green activist S P Udaykumar.

Coronavirus: Are you anxious, worried? Read this!

Coronavirus: Are you anxious, worried? Read this!

Rediff.com30 Mar 2020

'Restrict the amount of time you spend on social media.' 'We have people who are glued to it from morning to night, which is certainly not what we recommend.' 'And do not take the stuff that you read on WhatsApp as sacrosanct.' 'A lot of it is absolutely nonsense.'

What you could do with Aarogya Setu app

What you could do with Aarogya Setu app

Rediff.com23 Apr 2020

'Install the app for yourself and your family.' 'Make sure that everybody you come in contact with on a daily basis -- your drivers, your maids, your colleagues at work -- make sure they too are using the app.' 'Also encourage people who carry some influence, like office managers, to convince their employees to do the same.' 'This only helps in improving your safety levels.'

India needs market-based energy pricing to meet vast needs: PM

India needs market-based energy pricing to meet vast needs: PM

Rediff.com3 Dec 2013

Speaking at the 8th Asia Gas Partnership Summit in New Delhi, he said India, which currently is world's seventh largest energy producer, 'needs to increase its energy supply by 3 to 4 times within next two decades.'

ISRO makes big leap, tests its heaviest cryogenic rocket engine

ISRO makes big leap, tests its heaviest cryogenic rocket engine

Rediff.com20 Jul 2015

India's first indigenously designed and developed high-thrust cryogenic rocket engine generating a nominal thrust of 19 tonnes was successfully endurance hot-tested for 800 seconds.

Growth at the heart of India's transformation agenda?

Growth at the heart of India's transformation agenda?

Rediff.com3 May 2016

energy is India's binding supply-side constraint for inclusive growth.

This couple is building mud homes that save 50% water

This couple is building mud homes that save 50% water

Rediff.com9 May 2019

Pune architects Dhruvang Hingmire and Priyanka Gunjikar are building houses out of mud and stone, employing local artists and contributing to the village economy.

Questions on coronavirus answered

Questions on coronavirus answered

Rediff.com13 Mar 2020

A virologist answers questions on the deadly virus presently haunting the world.

Delhi faces blackout risk, Kejriwal accuses power firms of blackmail

Delhi faces blackout risk, Kejriwal accuses power firms of blackmail

Rediff.com31 Jan 2014

Areas in East and Central Delhi face a blackout risk from Saturday as the State-run National Thermal Power Corporation on Friday rejected the Delhi government's plea not to stop electricity supply to the BSES Yamuna Power Ltd for defaulting on payments.

Markets log best weekly gain in seven years on FII buying

Markets log best weekly gain in seven years on FII buying

Rediff.com5 Mar 2016

Rate sensitive sectors rallied the most led by banks while metals surged on rebound in commodity prices

AAP can't confront Modi for 5, 10 years

AAP can't confront Modi for 5, 10 years

Rediff.com27 Feb 2015

'Can the Aam Aadmi Party challenge the BJP? Someday perhaps. But to set him up as a national alternative just now smacks of the very sin that Arvind Kejriwal admits brought him down in 2014 -- arrogance.'

Coal India rushes to supply power plants with critically low stocks

Coal India rushes to supply power plants with critically low stocks

Rediff.com4 Sep 2014

The company has also advised power firms to use trucks to carry coal from remote mines, like the Amrapali open cast pit in eastern Jharkhand state.

What's next for Mangalyaan? ISRO boss tells us

What's next for Mangalyaan? ISRO boss tells us

Rediff.com26 Sep 2014

In his first interview, after the launch of MOM in Mars orbit, ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan spoke to T E Narasimhan about the mission and the way forward.

13 nationals from Ebola-hit Liberia cleared in Delhi

13 nationals from Ebola-hit Liberia cleared in Delhi

Rediff.com26 Aug 2014

Thirteen Indian nationals, who arrived in Delhi from Liberia on Tuesday, have been cleared after being screened for the Ebola virus, the health ministry said.

Online clearances for stalled projects

Online clearances for stalled projects

Rediff.com26 Jul 2014

While 44 per cent of the problems relate to environmental issues, 60-65 per cent under the PMG radar are coal-fired thermal power projects mostly awaiting coal linkages.

Mars gullies sculpted by dry ice, not water

Mars gullies sculpted by dry ice, not water

Rediff.com24 Dec 2015

The study conducted by French scientists shows that, during late winter and spring, underneath the seasonal CO2 ice layer heated by the Sun, intense gas fluxes can destabilise the regolith material and induce gas-lubricated debris flows which look like water-sculpted gullies on Earth.

Pak's fourth reactor at Khushab nuclear site operational

Pak's fourth reactor at Khushab nuclear site operational

Rediff.com17 Jan 2015

Pakistan's fourth heavy water reactor at Khushab nuclear site which allows it to build a larger number of miniaturised plutonium-based nuclear weapons now appears to be operational, a US think-tank has said.

SBI to provide $1bn loan to Adani's Australia coal mine

SBI to provide $1bn loan to Adani's Australia coal mine

Rediff.com17 Nov 2014

Australia's federal and Queensland governments are eager to see the mine built following the loss of more than 4,000 coal jobs over the past two years, but analysts and project finance experts believe Adani may have underestimated the challenge of raising funds for the project.

Why Pakistan is feeling threatened

Why Pakistan is feeling threatened

Rediff.com16 Nov 2017

India's plan to buy futuristic tanks and infantry combat vehicles -- estimated to be worth Rs 80,000 crore to Rs 100,000 crore each -- will certainly intimidate Pakistan which already feels threatened by our vast tank strength.

This is the world's smallest Mona Lisa

This is the world's smallest Mona Lisa

Rediff.com6 Aug 2013

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology "painted" the world's most famous painting Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width.

Bhubaneswar to get India's first energy-sufficient building

Bhubaneswar to get India's first energy-sufficient building

Rediff.com12 Mar 2014

Spread over three acres, the project will house the new office of the Grid Corporation of Odisha Ltd, under the Odisha government's energy department.

Will Tesla alter India's view of electric cars?

Will Tesla alter India's view of electric cars?

Rediff.com11 Apr 2016

The vehicle will not be available until end-2017, or later.

Reliance, BP urged to invest in fuel retail

Reliance, BP urged to invest in fuel retail

Rediff.com15 Jun 2017

RIL-BP currently produce gas from Dhirubhai-1 and 3 field and oil and gas from MA field, three of the over one-and-half dozen discoveries made in KG-D6 block

No going back on gas price hike decision, says Moily

No going back on gas price hike decision, says Moily

Rediff.com14 Feb 2014

The new rates, which are likely to be at $8-8.4 against the current price of $4.2 per million British thermal unit, are based on the recommendations of a committee that was appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the request of Moily's predecessor, S Jaipal Reddy.

How 'Feluda' will detect COVID-19 in minutes

How 'Feluda' will detect COVID-19 in minutes

Rediff.com5 May 2020

'This health emergency has brought a lot of people together with the common purpose of getting Feluda to play detective as quickly as possible.' 'As a scientist, if we can make a small difference in people's lives, we are happy'

6 Indian ventures among world's most innovative infra projects

6 Indian ventures among world's most innovative infra projects

Rediff.com13 Nov 2014

Delhi Metro, Yamuna-expressway and Tata Power's Mundra ultra mega power project in Gujarat are among the six ventures that have figured in the list of world's most innovative, impactful infrastructure projects prepared by international accounting firm KPMG.

KCR, the king of the freebies!

KCR, the king of the freebies!

Rediff.com17 Dec 2018

'Freebies are yet be proven a 'pucca' vote-catcher. But don't say that to KCR because he takes pride in two things: His record of delivery and imagination,' says Shekhar Gupta.

'Will Pawar say the courts are taking instructions from me?'

'Will Pawar say the courts are taking instructions from me?'

Rediff.com3 Feb 2016

'May I ask if Sharad Pawar will say the chief justice of the high court as well as the judge who extended remand are also taking instructions from Somaiya?'

Govt to examine EC order on natural gas, says Moily

Govt to examine EC order on natural gas, says Moily

Rediff.com25 Mar 2014

EC on Monday asked the government to defer notifying doubling of price of the fuel produced by companies such as Reliance Industries till general elections are completed.

ISRO does it again: India's heaviest rocket GSLV-Mark III launched successfully

ISRO does it again: India's heaviest rocket GSLV-Mark III launched successfully

Rediff.com18 Dec 2014

Taking its baby steps towards realising India's ambition to send humans into space, Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday successfully tested the atmospheric re-entry of a crew module after its heaviest launch vehicle GSLV MK III blasted off from Sriharkota.

New device can sniff out smuggled money

New device can sniff out smuggled money

Rediff.com18 Aug 2014

riminals smuggle an estimated $30 billion in US currency into Mexico each year from the US, researchers said.

No response on sanction to try govt servants in coal scam: CBI

No response on sanction to try govt servants in coal scam: CBI

Rediff.com2 Jun 2015

The agency said files of the case were sent to competent authority.