FICCI Frames 2017: There Is A Need For Partnerships To Create A Digitally Empowered Society

MUMBAI, 21 March, 2017: At the session on ‘Connecting the Unconnected - Upgrading technology and infrastructure to the last mile’ at FICCI FRAMES 2017, Mr. J. S...

Massive Telescope Will Be Upgraded To Study The Nearest Exoplanets To Earth

One of the biggest space stories of 2016 was the discovery of the Earth-scale planet Proxima b in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. Located only 4...

OPPI Releases ‘Healthcare In India: New Milestones New Frontiers’ With McKinsey And Co As knowledge Partner

‘Healthcare in India: New Milestones New Frontiers’, a publication which highlights some existing and future challenges for poli...

Hurricane Matthew ' Will Kill You,' Says Florida Governor

"This storm will kill you."
That's the message officials in South Carolina and Florida are trying to get across to residents potentially in the path of the storm. Matt...

Facebook Hack Shows It’s Time To Upgrade Our Method Of Verifying Identity

On Monday, a Facebook user lost control of his personal account, as well as several business pages, for almost a full day, after a hacker was able to convince Facebook to c...

CERN Engineers Have To Identify And Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables

In the past, when parts of the accelerators have been upgraded or added to, engineers would often additionally replace the cables that connected them. In the process, they ...

Rs 16cr Plan To Check Maternal Deaths

Pune: The state government has made a provision of Rs 16 crore to improve services at state-run healthcare centres handling high-risk pregnancies. Delivery room facilities ...

Eliza By Any Other Name

December 2015 marked the end of the year long birth centenary celebrations of pioneering theatre personality Begum Qudsia Zaidi. To her goes the credit for translating and ...

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...