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06 Oct 2017

Japanese-born Kazuo Ishiguro, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world, the Swedish Academy said

05 Oct 2017

05 Oct 2017

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo-electron microscopy, which both simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules

04 Oct 2017

Under the stewardship of Paul Otellini, Intel won new business from technology leaders like Apple and focused more on technologies beyond chips for personal computers

04 Oct 2017

Under the stewardship of Paul Otellini, Intel won new business from technology leaders like Apple and focused more on technologies beyond chips for personal computers

04 Oct 2017

Former disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government, launched a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government, blaming it squarely for the current economic slowdown and terming demonetisation as the “largest money-laundering scheme ever”

04 Oct 2017

Former disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government, launched a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government, blaming it squarely for the current economic slowdown and terming demonetisation as the “largest money-laundering scheme ever”

04 Oct 2017

Former disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government, launched a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government, blaming it squarely for the current economic slowdown and terming demonetisation as the “largest money-laundering scheme ever”

04 Oct 2017

Described as the ‘Father of Economic Ecology’ by the United Nations Environment Programme, Dr Soumya Swaminathan has been named by Time magazine as one of the 20 most influential Indians of the 20th century, along with Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore

04 Oct 2017

03 Oct 2017

Mallya faces nearly half a dozen warrants in India and has been accused for repeatedly refusing to appear before courts and investigators, but is often seen at public events in London

03 Oct 2017

Mallya faces nearly half a dozen warrants in India and has been accused for repeatedly refusing to appear before courts and investigators, but is often seen at public events in London

03 Oct 2017

Mallya faces nearly half a dozen warrants in India and has been accused for repeatedly refusing to appear before courts and investigators, but is often seen at public events in London

03 Oct 2017

It was on 14 September 2015, scientists at the LIGO project  first observed the universe’s gravitational waves

03 Oct 2017

03 Oct 2017

The circadian clock or biological clock anticipates and adapts our physiology to the different phases of the day thereby helping to regulate sleep patterns, feeding behavior, hormone release, blood pressure, and body temperature

30 Sep 2017

Born to American parents in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, Padma Shri recipient Tom Alter was a veteran film and television character actor and theatre artist

28 Sep 2017

A banking veteran with over 26 years’ experience, Rajiv Sabharwal was an executive director on ICICI Bank’s board before joining True North Managers LLP

27 Sep 2017

27 Sep 2017

26 Sep 2017

25 Sep 2017

North Korea, Venezuela and Chad were included in the new travel ban while President Trump excluded Sudan from the original list of countries that also included Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia

25 Sep 2017

Merkel now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two disparate new partners – possibly the Free Democrats and the Greens – even as the far-right AfD made significant gains

25 Sep 2017

Income Tax Department conducted raids on several properties belonging to Siddhartha, the son-in-lay of Congress leader S M krishna

23 Sep 2017