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Mamata says Netaji Bose didn’t die in 1945
19 Sep 2015
Some of these declassified intelligence intercepts suggest that in 1948-49 American and British intelligence agencies believed that Netaji was alive and that he played an important role in Communist uprisings in Southeast Asia
India could’ve been hardware leader, regrets Narayana Murthy
18 Sep 2015
IT doyen Narayan Murthy says wrong policies held back India’s hardware potential in the past, and the poor quality of college education is doing the same now
Apple insiders all praise for new Jobs biopic
16 Sep 2015
Steve Jobs, starring German-Irish stage and screen actor Michael Fassbender in the titular role, will debut at the New York Film Festival 3 October in advance of a wider release on 9 October in North America
Yahoo media head, Kathy Savitt to leave
12 Sep 2015
J Manjula becomes first woman DG at DRDO; heads electronics cluster
10 Sep 2015
An outstanding scientist, J Manjula has led Defence Avionics Research Establishment, a DRDO establishment, as a director since July 2014
Steve Waugh launches property platform for NRIs
09 Sep 2015
Former Australia cricket captain Steve Waugh has entered the Indian real estate sector with with his investment banker friend Dean Honan
Michael Dell vows to support startups in India
08 Sep 2015
Ruling out making investments in smartphones, Dell said only one or two firms were making profits in it and quite a few of them were losing substantial money
Padmasree Warrior in race to head Twitter
04 Sep 2015
Former chief technology and strategy officer of Cisco Systems, and CTO of Motorola, Padmasree Warrior is in the race to lead Twitter as its new CEO
Volkswagen’s finance chief, Hans Dieter Poetsch to become next chairman
04 Sep 2015
The name of 64-year-old Hans Dieter Poetsch will be proposed for election to Vplkswagen's supervisory board at an extraordinary general meeting in November
Rata Tata invests in analytics firm Infinite Analytics
01 Sep 2015
Tata Group chairman, emeritus Ratan Tata has invested an unspecified amount in the US-based Infinite Analytics, a predictive data analytics firm from MIT, with sales operations in India
What’s in a name? The threat remains the same
By By Jagdeep Worah | 01 Sep 2015
Ohioans are irate at President Obama for changing the name of the highest peak in the US from Mt McKinley to Denali – but the real issue is the alarming rate of glacier melt in the Arctic, reports Jagdeep Worah
Vietnam’s one-man army fights China’s economic invasion: report
31 Aug 2015
More than 75 per cent of Vietnam’s annual $60-billion trade is made up imports from China
US-based Pak author says he met Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan
26 Aug 2015
For the first time in recent memory a Pakistani writer, Arif Jamal, has said that he met the underworld don at his palatial bungalow in the Defence Housing Area of Karachi
TV mogul Indrani Mukherjea held for murder
26 Aug 2015
Dr Girish Sahni takes over as director general of CSIR
26 Aug 2015
As head of CSIR, Dr Girish Sahni will also be ex-officio secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research of the ministry of science and technology
Tenth grader Anmol Tukrel betters on Google search
20 Aug 2015
Anmol Tukrel, the 10th grader, claims his personal search engine is 47 per cent more accurate than Google
Anand Mahindra receives honorary doctorate from IIT Bombay
14 Aug 2015
Anand Mahindra was conferred a doctor of science (honoris causa) for his commitment in furthering the cause and growth of the automobile industry
Hero Cycles founder-chairman OP Munjal passes away
13 Aug 2015
OP Munjal, 86, chairman emeritus of Hero Cycles and one of the founders of Hero Group, passed away earlier today in Ludhiana
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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