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Who Will Mine The Lithium Reserves?

Faced with one setback after another in expanding the scope of mining in the country, almost all the major miners of the world have wound down their operations in India. IMAGE: The Geological......

Good Samaritan donates Rs 15.31 cr for child's life-saving drug

A couple from Mumbai who recently shifted to Kerala has received Rs 15.31 crore from an anonymous donor to purchase a life-saving drug for the treatment of their 16-month-old son. IMAGE: Kindly......

Covid may damage brain like Parkinson's disease

The SARS-CoV-2 virus may increase the likelihood of the brain degeneration found in Parkinson's disease, according to a study in mice. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters COVID-19 patients commonly......

'COVID-19 can quietly enter your body, without causing pain'

IMAGE: A medic collects swab samples for a COVID-19 RT PCR test at Lajpat Nagar market in New Delhi, November 16 2020. Photograph: Prateek Kumar/ANI Photo Our life is being ruled by a super......

How we can DEFEAT COVID-19

'If our body is able to mount a very successful immune response, we can negate the virus.' IMAGE: Kolkata Mayor and Bengal Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim being given the first trial of......

EVs Star At Shanghai Auto Show

The Shanghai Auto Show was first held in 1985 just as the Chinese economy, long mauled by Mao Zedong's cruel excesses, was emerging from its time warp. Due to the expanding presence of foreign......

'AI is going to be used as a weapon by the bad guys'

'This is a race where every technology can be used by the bad guys and good guys.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Artificial Intelligence has become the buzzword, as technology......

Why is Harsh Mariwala getting into aquatherapy?

'Hardly any aqua centres exist in India though they are popular abroad.''Water is known for its buoyancy which reduces pressure on joints. So, you can exercise effectively underwater, provided you......

A Hungarian invention that helped the British in WWII

Tracing the early life of the humble ballpoint pen to its present. IMAGE: Modern folks would not even think of the ballpoint pen as an innovation. It seems to be an inexpensive writing instrument,......

Google computer beats human champion in Chinese game

The game involves players taking turns to place black or white stones on a board, trying to capture the opponent's stones or surround empty space to make points of territory. For the first time, a......

Twinkle Khanna's Parenting Tips

Ananya reunites with cousins... Randhir misses his brothers... Photograph: Kind courtesy Twinkle Khanna/Instagram Twinkle Khanna gives us parenting tips: 'Our job is not to give our children......

Is India ready for humour without punchlines?

'On Air with AIB seems to be becoming an increasingly exhausting show to sit through with each passing episode. While there are funny lines strewn all around, watching an On Air episode is like......

'I get slightly troubled when people see Sherlock Holmes as sexy'

'I was very wary about stepping into the limelight and the populist role like Sherlock Holmes, but the minute I saw who was involved and read the script and the quality of it I thought: I've got......

Review: The Theory of Everything is impeccably executed

A film as strongly scripted and impeccably executed as The Theory of Everything will be remembered for longer than Stephen Hawking's estimate of the end of time, says Paloma Sharma.There......

Amitabh Bachchan's Eid message

A look at the top 10 tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Several Bollywood stars took to Twitter to wish their fans on the festival of Eid al-Adha today: Arbaaz Khan: 'Eid Mubarak to......

Link found between heading and cognitive impairment?

IMAGE: In this file photo, Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo scores off a header. Repetitive heading may increase risk of cognitive impairment in later life, shows FA studyPhotograph: Massimo......

Ben Stokes is BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019

IMAGE: Ben Stokes scored an incredible 135 not out to win the third Test, chasing 359, to level the Ashes series in August. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters English cricketer Ben Stokes was named......

Wins for Arsenal, Man United as Europa League kicks off

IMAGE: Eintracht Frankfurt's Kevin Trapp makes a save from Arsenal's Bukayo Saka. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Arsenal teenager Bukayo Saka scored his first goal for the club as they......

Football Briefs: Derby manager Lampard fined after being sent off

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Derby County manager Frank Lampard. Photograph: Action Images/Ed Sykes Derby County manager Frank Lampard was fined 2,000 pounds......

ATP chief Drewett dies aged 54

Brad Drewett, executive chairman and president of the men's ATP Tour since 2012, died aged 54 on Friday from Motor Neurone Disease, the ATP said in a statement. "Our thoughts are with Brad's family......

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