Since 2004 the Congress has hung onto power in a situation in which it was on track to be out of power. In each case, it effectively gamed the system through Constitutional coups, argues columnist Rajeev Srinivasan.

An active politician for over four decades, Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday completed one year in office as a copybook President, a period that was marked by proactive steps within and outside Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Online business owners are tweaking some successful and some not-so-successful business models of the West to cater to the fastidious Indian consumer.

This summer, when you set out on a perilous journey across the mountains, make sure your piece of equipment doesn't fall off the cliff -- and that it fends off the elements, too.

In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on May 16, Siddhartha Dubey and Sharon Moshavi (details below) discussed how they make a career in digital journalism.

Trai's latest proposal to cut ad inventory in channels has already prompted some of the leading broadcasters (Zee News being the latest) to cut their total commercial time and increase rates.

Filtering of websites has now been introduced as a discussable topic. The current battle is about who will control the most visible and glamorous layer, the content layer.

The song went viral when it was digitally released by Sony music.

A number of younger diplomats have begun to search for the soul of the foreign service, to give its members a sense of belonging and pride, observes former ambassador T P Sreenivasan.

It's impossibly difficult to make a great film about a superhero who uses a country's name as his own.

We recently carried the tale of a reader's unpleasant shopping experience and invited you to write in with yours. Here are a few more responses!

India first needs to innovate the solution itself, and then focus on the product.

Macmillan India imprint Full Marks has come out with a support website for students of class VI-XII mainly following NCERT books that can be accessed by using a scratch card.

Rahul Singh, who scored in the 100-percentile (CAT 2009) shares some tips on how B-school hopefuls should kickstart their CAT prep.

A citizen's privacy will be compromised through the unique identity project leading to misuse by the State and other agencies, writes Praful Bidwai.

When Gaurav Mishra, CEO of Delhi-based media consultancy 2020 Social, took a holiday to Miami last year, he spent seven days at the beach reading six paperless books.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all strategy, employees can be allowed to tailor their benefits package to their specific needs.

How Narinder Kapany, the Father of Fibre Optics, joins a very long list of Indians who, though richly deserving of the Nobel Prize, have been mysteriously passed over by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

As part of a series featuring Indian bloggers, P Rajendran speaks to Manish Vij, who uses the Internet to fight political discrimination.

Shankar Iyer, head, learning services, Red Hat, India, talks about career and growth opportunities in the open source domain.

IIM Ahemedabad student Gourav Bhattacharya shares some useful tips.

Mobiles phones without International Mobile Equipment Identity number are considered a grave security threat and concerns had been raised over their usage after terrorist attacks like the one in Mumbai in November last year. Despite the security threat, no government agency has till now approached the commerce ministry for a ban on import of such phones from China, a top source said on Thursday.

The widespread application of three is not a coincidence, it might be the pulse of everything.

A look at the Nintendo Wii and few of the best games that you can play on it.

Want to score a hot date on V-Day? Our smooth-talking Don Jawan has some advice for you.

Want to impress upon somebody how internet savvy you are? Here are five simple rules that will protect you and your data online.

India should dread the prospect of being governed by the dictatorial Mallika-e-Hindustan!

Tips for shopping and banking online safely.

The cable industry, which reaches over 80 million out of India's 130 million TV-owning homes, is getting ready to strongly oppose the government's move to raise the foreign direct investment limit for direct-to-home service providers from 49 to 74 per cent without doing the same for cable companies.

Ironically, one of his greatest challenges during the coming year will be writing himself out of the script.

A look at the various types of questions that have made an appearance in the entrance exams of management schools.

Here are some tried and tested methods to reduce the ambiguity in three specific question types.

It was one of the most tantalising days in Indian Parliament. Parties debated for and against the nuclear deal. MPs crossed swords, armed with allegations and statistics. As the nation kept glued to the happenings, rediff.com's Prem Panicker gave its readers a blow-by-blow account of what happened. Here is the transcript:

A chore is always a bore. But this one's not even simple.

The bulls are faced with tough times, thanks to concerns pertaining to high inflation, rising input costs and earnings deceleration among other factors.

Health experts point out that it will take decades for India to reach the level of health education and infrastructure in developed countries. Our per capita health expenditure is estimated at $23, which is only 6.1 per cent of the gross domestic production.

Counter fear with greater fear, terror with super-terror, and the perpetrators will think twice before carrying out their evil deeds.

According to blog search engine Technorati, there are over 112 million blogs in the blogosphere, which swells by over 175,000 blogs every day. With the immense potential of sharing views and creating public opinion, blogs are not only being tapped for publicity and brand promotion, their successful monetisation by displaying ads has allowed bloggers to turn full-timers from being hobby-bloggers. Though many bloggers abhor making money from blogs, it's becoming widely popular.

The Open Document Format (ODF) proponents are alleging that the Microsoft has "cajoled" Indian NGOs to write to the IT ministry and BIS, supporting OOXML as a standard.

Though he is a member of Students Against Violating the Environment for several years, Abhishek got really excited about global environmental problems only after getting to know the book and the film An Inconvenient Truth.