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Launching our beta website: beta.thehindu.com

The redesigned website of The Hindu was launched on Saturday, August 15, in beta.

As the website of a 130-year-old newspaper of record, it retains its core values of independence, authenticity, and credibility while adopting contemporary web design principles, tools, and features.

The design is by Mario Garcia Jr., of Garcia Media, Tampa. Florida, USA. The workflow solution is by CCI Europe A/S, Denmark.The web publishing system is from Escenic A/S, Norway.

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From the Print Edition
Indian-born scientist shares Chemistry Nobel
The Prize is for mapping the ribosome, the cell mechanism that makes proteins

IAF will protect itself against naxals: Chidambaram
Mumbai: Talking tough a day after the beheading of a Jharkhand police officer, Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said the security forces would engage the Maoists till they abjured violence and the Indian Air Force would take steps to ...

Thankful to Cambridge colleagues: Venki
London: A delighted Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan said he was deeply indebted to his associates, students and researchers in his Cambridge-based laboratory for the path-breaking work he has conducted in the area of ribosomes. ...

Talks if naxals abjure violence: Chidambaram
Mumbai: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday that the government was ready to hold a dialogue with naxals or supporters of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) provided they “abjure violence.” “They ...

Nobel laureate kept his home links


State moves apex court against dam survey
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the permission granted to Kerala by the Central government for a proposal to conduct a survey and an investigation in the Periyar Tiger Reserve area to build a new dam in ...

Man Booker for Hilary Mantel
LONDON: British novelist Hilary Mantel’s historical doorstopper, Wolf Hall , set in the court of Henry VIII, has won this year’s £50,000 Man Booker Prize beating five other contenders, including two previous ...

Ramakrishnan ninth Nobel winner of Indian origin
New Delhi: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan becomes the ninth person of Indian origin or connection to win the coveted Nobel Prize. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize, when he was honoured for his contribution to ...

Climate change threatening herbs, says Pratibha Patil
Seeks steps to categorise and protect medicinal plants

High Court admits appeal in judges’ assets declaration case
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday admitted an appeal filed by the Supreme Court Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) against a single judge’s order holding that information on assets declared by Supreme Court judges in ...

High Court admits plea in judges’ assets case
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday admitted an appeal filed by the Supreme Court Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) against a single judge’s order holding that information on assets declared by Supreme Court judges in ...

The Kraal goes to French tourism firm
Plans to turn Gandhiji’s house into museum

Miraculous escape for baby born in train toilet
KOLKATA: In a bizarre accident aboard a moving train, a baby was born inside a toilet and fell through the toilet outlet on to the railway tracks in West Bengal’s Purulia district late on Tuesday night. He was rescued later and is now ...

Insulin pumps to be launched by year-end
MUMBAI: Johnson and Johnson Medical India plans to introduce its ‘insulin pump’ for diabetes patients in the country by the end of 2009, a top company official said. “We are planning to launch insulin pumps in India by ...

Missing Indian reportedly found dead
MELBOURNE: A body, believed to be that of a missing Indian businessman, was found in Victoria State. Thirty three-year-old Pardeep Kumar, who has been missing for last two weeks, was last seen in the Mildura library on September 25, ...

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