'New Covid surge is a seasonal wave but spreads faster'

'Seek medical help if after five days of the first symptom the fever has not subsided.' IMAGE: A woman walks past a graffiti, on a street, in Mumbai. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters  ......

Aaftab will kill me, Shraddha told Maha police in 2020, but withdrew complaint

Call centre employee Shraddha Walkar had two years ago complained to the police in Maharashtra that her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala, who is accused of brutally murdering her, tried to kill her......

Can India Deal with Halahal In Amrit Kaal?

We have our own problems for sure and they are not trivial, but for now, our economy is in not too bad a shape, our politics is as personality-driven and authoritarian as that of most countries in......

An Ill Wind Blowing Over Karnataka

This divisiveness is upsetting social cohesion and can throw the bright young people thronging to Bengaluru with billion dollar ideas in their creative minds off balance, warns Shekhar Gupta.......

2018: Year of reckoning for India Inc

A glance back at some important ups and down India Inc faced in 2018. Year End Specials   Kindly click on the image below to view the relevant story. #1 How PNB scam effected consumer......

How to play the debt market

If you are in credit opportunity funds, income funds or dynamic bond funds for a long-term goal, stay put, experts tell Tinesh Bhasin. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Debt fund investors are a......

Anshuman Magazine: I expect increased investment from America to India

Anshuman Magazine of CBRE discusses effective leadership, millenials, Trump's America, and his core business -- the real estate market -- with Nivedita Mookerji. Illustration: Dominic......

The Uber vs Ola mahayudh

The whole point about this is not who eventually wins or loses but how, in just a few years, technology has so changed our lives, says Subir Roy. How could there be a revival of the entirely......

Can Disney+Hotstar Survive Without F1, IPL, HBO?

With three key subscription drivers -- F1, IPL and HBO -- gone, can Disney+Hotstar depend only on its chart-topping originals like Criminal Justice and Rudra: Edge of Darkness to hit both scale and......

The girl A Suitable Boy fell in love with

'I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that this could happen to me.' IMAGE: Tanya Maniktala in Mira Nair's A Suitable Boy. Photograph: Kind courtesy Tanya Maniktala/Instagram Tanya Maniktala......

Jawaani Jaaneman review

Saif is a hoot, applauds Sukanya Verma. While admiring Saif Ali Khan in my review of Baazaar I wrote, 'I see a self-possessed actor whose progressing potential overshadows the conventional......

'I'm not getting married anytime soon'

'A lot of married people are not happy with their partners, so how does a marriage decide happiness?'Our family wants us to be happy and successful and marriage doesn’t fit anywhere.'  ......

Manpreet hails team's mental fortitude in bronze-medal run

IMAGE: Manpreet Singh with his family on his arrival from the Paris Olympics on Saturday. Photograph: Hockey India/Xspan> Senior India hockey player Manpreet Singh on Saturday said it was......

Self-doubt killed, Chanu sets sights on another Olympic medal

Fit-again Chanu taking it easy in training while eyeing 90kg plus snatch lift in Paris IMAGE: Pressure is there because in Tokyo, on the first day I got a medal for India. I will try to give my......

Might not have to wait till Olympics... could breach the 90m mark before that: Neeraj

IMAGE: Neeraj Chopra believes that he could breach the 90m mark before the Paris Olympics. Photograph: Jeremy Lee/Reuters Olympic gold-medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is aiming to breach......

How young blood transformed India's Test dominance

IMAGE: From left, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, KS Bharat, Akash Deep, Sarfaraz Khan, Rajat Patidar and Devdutt Padikkal. Photograph: BCCI The thumping series win over England on sporting......

Coach predicts 3-4 more years of Ashwin's dominance

He was born to play Test cricket: Ravichandran Ashwin's childhood coach Sunil Subramaniam IMAGE: Ravichandran Ashwin is going strong at 37, claiming a bagful of wickets with his absolute control......