Enough S&T rhetoric, India inc, get R&DyNirmala Sitharaman announced GST exemption for research funding in higher educational institutions and research centres with I-T exemptions...
Sports can push our young out of torporPhysical activity regimes are usually conducted sporadically, if at all. Increasingly for our young, it's on par with 'Eat your greens', so...
Clap to the slap, in a droopy Oscar showThe Rock-scissors-Smith show may or may not have been scripted. But it did what one good scene in a dull film does - become the sole conver...
- Population potential
When America faced down Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, we were the big dog. We had more people, more wealth, and more industrial capaci...
Raheem Sterling gives England opening win over CroatiaSterling, something of a surprise starter after a flat end to the domestic season but a favourite of manager Gareth Southgate, slid home a ...
Why hotter inflation failed to shake US markets out of torpor?Fed officials have repeatedly tamped down fears of inflation running persistently higher than its 2% target, while pointing out they have t...
View: Corporatisation of ordnance factories will unshackle defence manufacturing from its torporIn its present form, OFB has scant autonomy in administrative, financial or other decision-making matters. Once unshackled through corporat...
Lagarde to get a harsh snapshot of ECB’s economic challengesWith a manufacturing slump threatening to spill over into services, euro-area growth was probably just 0.1 per cent in the third quarter.
Wild wild Trump is putting bond market to deep sleep; here’s howTreasury traders are facing volumes that are down nearly 5% in the first three weeks of July.
If being late is a sign of importance, Indians are in esteemed companyComing on time for work in government offices is viewed with particular annoyance by its denizens.
Astronauts to hibernate for Mars journey?A Nasa-backed study is exploring the feasibility of lowering the cost of a human expedition to Mars by putting the astronauts in deep sleep.
NASA to put astronauts in deep sleep for Mars mission?A NASA-backed study is exploring the feasibility of lowering the cost of a human expedition to Mars by putting the astronauts in deep sleep.
- Super Sleep?
It’s an incident right out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: after an argument with his family, a 16-year-old jumps an airport fence in San J...
Can Arvind Kejriwal make 2014 the year of the unthinkable?Conventional analysis suggests the BJP lead by Narendra Modi will head the next government, but will 2014 be conventional?
- Loss of diesel-rich crude sends oil up
Seasoned oil market observers have struggled to find an adequate explanation for the surge in Brent prices over the past fortnight.
- When men dissemble
The greatest moral milestone of our age, perhaps, is that we no longer regard evil as uncommon.
- Strings of unsolicited sitar and jazzmatazz
It's not everyday one gets to hear the two masters of jazz, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter in India.