Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir may have severely damaged the economic structure of the state but has not been able to decimate it.
Sharmila Nair's campaign '18 Shades of Black' is inspiring Indian women to talk about the restrictions they faced while growing up and encouraging people to find solutions.
Here's a look at the Bollywood representation at this year's TIFF.
'Somewhere along the way, elected office-bearers appeared to have lost sight of the interest of cricket and begun to pursue their own interpretation of what the game should be.' 'Families made it a tradition to have their representatives occupy, if not usurp, positions in state associations,' points out Vinod Rai, who will step down as head of the BCCI's Committee of Administrators on Wednesday, October 23.
The industry began to upgrade its practices even before the NGO alleged Indian tea contained harmful pesticides.
A global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies said that financial institutions have not done enough to police suspicious financial activity by officials at soccer's global governing body FIFA.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
By speaking for all nations without going into details, India expressed its confidence that it cannot be excluded if the Council is expanded. This was more effective than the usual assertion of the Indian claim on every occasion, says T P Sreenivasan.
The government must seriously consider enlarging the scope of its counter-terrorism policy to covertly target organisations across India's borders that are sponsoring terrorism in India, says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
The manipulative syntax of the bill smacks of a furtive agenda to tilt the scales in favour of a specific community at the cost of the majority and violates the basic tenet of equality before the law, says Vivek Gumaste.
Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.
Many pictures showed The Skeleton Named Sheena. For the purpose of the photographs, the skeleton had been re-assembled and looked straight at the camera.
Baltej Dhillon, 42, the first turbaned Sikh to be admitted to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police speaks to rediff'com's Ajit Jain.
The first turbaned Sikh to be admitted to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police speaks to Ajit Jain about the last 20 years
The challenges posed by terrorism and sectarian violence to India's rule of law and secularism came under focus during a workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earlier this month.
Several Indian American organizations, including the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin--arguably the largest and most influential international medical group in the US--and leading Hindu leaders have blasted Fox News' conservative talk show host Glenn Beck for insulting medical care in India and joking that the holy river Ganges sounded like a disease.
This article tries to strip off the jargon and present the contents of the current act with respect to the punishments and penalties applicable to various offences as defined by the tax man.
Workers' outfits staged a rally outside the Indian Consulate in New York to show support for Sangeeta Richard, whose allegations of low wages and exploitation led to the Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. George Joseph reports
The stress test finding, favouring small countries, goes against generally prevalent economic thinking that large economies like China and India are better placed to face economic slowdown because of the diversified nature of the economy, in which some sectors witness robust demand to mitigate the impact of a demand slowdown in other sectors.
Despite being in the crosshairs of the police, politicians and vigilantes, Malini Subramaniam continues to report from a hotbed of Maoist insurgency.
Rich countries will use the Doha Round to shift the pain of the financial meltdown to developing countries.
In a missive to Bush, USCIRF chair Felice D Gaer urged him to 'ask Prime Minister Singh to ensure the immediate security of Indian citizens -- security that is undermined by recurrent attacks on religious minorities and communities.'
In an exclusive interview with rediff.com, Richard Boucher, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, who is the Bush administration's point man for the subcontinent and who has taken charge of pushing the deal in the US Congress, said, "We are going to work with the Indians, we are going to work with the Congress and we are going to take this as far as we can go."
The Indian card processor - used in the heist on December 21, 2012 - was ElectraCard Services, which is based in Pune, India.
'Indian companies are increasingly investing in research and looking at ways they can leverage their India advantage,'Wockhardt Chairman Habil Khorakiwala tells Priya Ganapati.
India has many fine maritime institutes set up by the government, all of them very demanding and very rewarding. Choose wisely.
When one door closes, another one opens. On Thursday the prison gates clanked shut behind Martin Lukes in Florida but, in London, the door of an office inside Accenture swung ajar, revealing Mark Foster, a middle-aged white man with a long-winded title.
Mita Kapur has an irresistible love affair... and she's willing to do anything to keep it going.
Reshma Qureshi's face was destroyed by acid. It did not stop her.
'India has had seven years after the 1998 tests, what has it done on the weapons front?'
'I had to convince myself that I was steely enough to operate on a cold-blooded killer.' 'For all my medical experience, this was something I had never done!' 'If something happened to Charles, I knew my fate was sealed for me.' 'I would be called Doctor Death until I breathed my last.' 'Success was my only hope of escaping that fate.' A fascinating excerpt from heart surgeon Dr Raamesh Koirala's Charles Sobhraj, Inside The Heart Of The Bikini Killer.
'Pakistan's judiciary has faced assaults in varying degree at one time or the other from virtually all successive governments.'
'Bhagwat, aware of the advantages of keeping the BJP in power, is wary about the RSS taking steps that would undermine the popular standing of either the PM or the party.'
Pope Francis on Friday called upon the world community to put aside their "partisan interests and sincerely strive to serve the common good".
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