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'It was impressive. I did not expect this from Rahul Gandhi'
Rediff.com22 Sep 2017Rahul would know that fealty can be a fickle thing, and that if the Congress bucks the trend and actually wins the next national election, selfies with him would find their way from phones to walls, replacing those taken with Modi.
Their flood vs Our flood
Rediff.com15 Sep 2017Darryl D' Monte, the distinguished enviromental journalist, discusses how the media covers floods in Mumbai or Texas, but ignores Assam or Bangladesh.
The Indian touch is what BRICS needs
Rediff.com6 Sep 2017'The BRICS anthem has to necessarily be an anthem of Vedic times -- Walk together, Dream together, Achieve together.' 'And who knows it better than Modi?' says Tarun Vijay.
My colour is definitely not saffron: Kamal Haasan amid buzz on political plunge
Rediff.com1 Sep 2017The actor met with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and discussed the political situation in neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
In photos: Going home with Usain Bolt
Rediff.com12 Aug 2017As the sprinter runs his last race, we veer off the trodden tourist trail in Jamaica and revisit his hometown, Trelawny Parish.
Defence deal may repair India-Russia ties
Rediff.com3 Aug 2017The $10.5 billion arms and equipment deal helped to arrest the recent drift in the 'special and privileged' strategic partnership, observes Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Football Briefs: Neymar on brink of record move to PSG?
Rediff.com28 Jul 2017News of all that's transpired on and off the football field on Friday
Football Briefs: 'Ibra may stay at United'; Atletico de Kolkata get new coach
Rediff.com15 Jul 2017News of all that's transpired on and off the football field on Saturday
Why Mamata wants Bengal's colleges to be politics-free
Rediff.com6 Jul 2017'With the appeal of both the Left and the Congress fading, Banerjee fears the saffron brigade's inroads into her citadel,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
31 images you won't believe were taken only on an iPhone
Rediff.com6 Jul 2017The tenth annual iPhone Photography Awards received thousands of entries -- all submitted by amateur photographers from more than 140 countries around the world.
Surge of Saudi nationalism hurts US
Rediff.com24 Jun 2017'The surge of Saudi nationalism is the last thing Washington wants,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
A warrior prince rises in Arabia
Rediff.com22 Jun 2017The Middle East's power house is about to get a new ruler who is only 31 and he may lead Saudi Arabia for decades, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Modi-Trump Summit: Truly historic step is unlikely
Rediff.com22 Jun 2017At no other time has a single meeting of the leaders of two democracies been so critical and hazardous.
Xi Jinping's war on corruption angers China's leaders
Rediff.com7 Jun 2017The Chinese Communist Party's all important 19th Party Congress is just months away, and President Xi Jinping finds himself confronting unlikely challenges to his pre-eminent position, says former RA&W officer and China watcher Jayadeva Ranade.
Why you should know what's going on in France
Rediff.com2 May 2017'France's challenges revolve around an uncertain economic future, multiple terrorist attacks on French soil and a European migration crisis tied to the situation in Syria and Iraq.'
'Kashmir is a battle of the mind'
Rediff.com19 Apr 2017'Tying somebody to the jeep is not the military way, but the officer was able to come out of the situation without any bloodshed.' 'I am not supporting him, but I am also not criticising him.' 'He had to use some mechanism to save the uniformed personnel, many of whom were Kashmiri boys of the J&K police,' points out Lieutenant General D B Shekatkar (retd), who was instrumental in the surrender of a record 1,267 terrorists in Kashmir.
Exclusive! What the head of US Congress' India caucus wants
Rediff.com27 Mar 2017US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, newly elected co-chair of the influential Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, discusses her vision for US-India ties with Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar.
Yogi Adityanath sworn in as UP CM; heads 47-member team
Rediff.com19 Mar 2017Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah and chief ministers of National Democratic Alliance-ruled States are at the ceremony.
Pune scientists discover new germs on cell phones
Rediff.com6 Mar 2017Meet Lysinbacillus telephonicus, Microbacterium telephonicum, Pyrenochaeta telephoni.
INS Viraat: End of an era
Rediff.com6 Mar 2017The Indian Navy's flagship carrier, the INS Viraat will be decommissioned on March 6 after serving the nation for 30 glorious years.
Meet the 27-yr-old who visited every nation in the world in 567 days
Rediff.com22 Feb 2017Meet Cassie de Pecol, a 27-year-old traveller from Connecticut, United States, who visited 196 countries in 18-and-a-half months, making her the fastest person to visit every country in the world.
India has a major stake in Indo-Pacific region: Navy chief
Rediff.com15 Feb 2017Asserting that "maritime muscle flexing" by some countries and other factors have made the Indo-Pacific region "more contested and more volatile," naval chief Admiral Sunil Lanba on Tuesday said that the Indian Navy has its task cut out as it has been a major security provider in the region.
Modi must heed Indian economists, not only NRI ones
Rediff.com14 Feb 2017'The time has come to incorporate Indian sociology into economic policy.' 'The first step in that direction would be to listen to economists trained in India and not just the US and the UK, argues T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Uttar Pradesh Phase 1: The battle for Western UP
Rediff.com9 Feb 201773 constituencies will vote on Saturday.
What India's 2nd most powerful man says about UP
Rediff.com30 Jan 2017BJP President Amit Shah -- arguably the second most powerful politician in the nation -- granted a rare television interview to the Network 18 group of news channels. Rediff.com's Rajesh Alva checks out what the BJP boss said in this word cloud assessment of the interview.
Om Puri gave a scene dignity just by his presence
Rediff.com6 Jan 2017He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
Mumbai chess prodigy Kush creates history in UAE
Rediff.com30 Dec 2016The second standard student of the NSS Hill Spring International School reigned supreme in all the three categories - rapid, blitz and standard -- and achieved the feat of being the only Indian to bag all the crowns in the 1st Western Asia Youth Chess Championship.
Will Viral Acharya sing a new tune at the RBI?
Rediff.com29 Dec 2016Hopefully, the grey world of central banking in a nation hit by demonetisation, will lighten up with some of his notes soon.
7 world cultures you must experience in 2017
Rediff.com1 Dec 2016You must visit these wonderful places across the globe to experience their rich and vibrant culture.
Fidel Castro, Cuba's revolutionary leader, dies
Rediff.com26 Nov 2016The Cuban government has announced nine days of mourning and has set Castro's funeral for December 4.
India's dream fighter jet: Boeing says it can deliver
Rediff.com19 Nov 2016Boeing's plan involves setting up an Indian factory and the aerospace ecosystem to build the Block II Super Hornet.
A distracted America is set to pull back from Asia
Rediff.com14 Nov 2016'Clearly, from the Indian viewpoint, the US retrenchment from Asia cannot be happening as good news.' 'The abandonment of the US' pivot to Asia exposes the US-Indian partnership to be a mere transactional relationship,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
Do YOU want to see Fawad Khan on the big screen?
Rediff.com17 Oct 2016Bollywood's fortunes might not hinge on Pakistani actors and singers, but the forced ban on them sends out a disturbing message.
Why India's reset of its Russian relationship is important
Rediff.com17 Oct 2016'One lesson to emerge out of the Modi-Putin summit is that India can be more self-confident that it possesses inherent strengths to leverage its interlocutors to influence Pakistani policies,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Noteworthy statistics from first-class and Ranji Trophy
Rediff.com15 Oct 2016Rajneesh Gupta gives us a list of noteworthy statistics from first-class and Ranji Trophy
Surgical strikes reveal India's space prowess
Rediff.com2 Oct 2016In the years to come, India's space assets will play a much bigger role if and when hostilities break out on our borders, says Pallava Bagla.
The 'spiritual desolation' of Saint Teresa
Rediff.com6 Sep 2016What is strange, for someone who spent a lifetime in seva, is that St Teresa's own personal journals and communication with the Church hierarchy reveal someone in "spiritual desolation", says Sankrant Sanu. Could the Indian sacred traditions have helped her?
'Secularism was meant to integrate us, but has torn us apart'
Rediff.com2 Sep 2016'At no time since Independence this issue of whether we are a secular country or whether we are a Hindu Rashtra has come up in this manner.' 'This is the most important issue which is going to decide whether we remain together as one country or not.'
Japan remembers Hiroshima on 71st anniversary of atomic bombing
Rediff.com6 Aug 2016During the solemn ceremony, Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui recalled the visit by Obama in his peace declaration, citing the president's historic speech.
Why the Zika virus is causing alarm
Rediff.com29 Jul 2016Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has spread to many countries in the Americas.