After Satyajit Ray was awarded a lifetime Oscar in 1992, the Academy Film Archives of the US Academy of Motion Pictures followed up the tribute to the legendary filmmaker by undertaking massive projects to restore his films – a total of 37, including documentaries and shorts.

Having already restored ‘Aparajito’ - which will be screened for the first time, since the restoration, at the 14th Kolkata Film Festival – the archives will restore Ray’s ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’ (The Chess Player) over the next year.  

Leading multi-national computer technology IBM has joined the list of companies jostling for position in the cloud computing space. For this purpose, the company would invest $2 billion in India over the next three years.

According to multi-national computer technology, with the proliferation of the mobile Web, the average individual's "information footprint" - the digitization of entertainment, healthcare, security, social networking, retail preferences - will grow from 1 TB (about 50,000 trees cut and printed) per year to more than 16 TB by 2020.

President-elect Barack Obama got a glimpse of the challenges his administration would be facing at his first top-secret intelligence briefing Thursday, from the two of the country’s top intelligence officers - National Intelligence Director, Mike McConnell, and CIA Director, Michael Hayden - and a team of briefers.

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System revealed that intake of an investigational drug, MK-677, on a daily basis increased muscle mass in the arms and legs of healthy older adults.

The study discovered that MK-677 increases the levels of growth hormone (GH) and of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in aged, to the levels found in healthy youngsters.

Rahm Emanuel – Democratic Congressman from Illinois, and a veteran of the Clinton administration - has accepted the President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to become the new White House chief of staff. Informing Obama of his decision on Thursday, Emanuel said he would step down as the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives to help guide the Obama administration.

Even though reports of agitation between the McCain and Palin camps bubbled up in the final weeks of the campaign, as Barack Obama began pulling away and the GOP duo was unable to regain the momentum, when the defeated team of McCain and Palin split up in Arizona on Wednesday, the personal differences were starkly visible.