Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Delhi Metro cancels ad referring to breasts as oranges

Delhi Metro on Thursday said it has withdrawn a poster on breast cancer awareness that asked women 'to check your oranges' but the questions remained -- does the metaphor obscure the message, does......

South Korean Han Kang wins Nobel Literature, 8th woman to get award

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." IMAGE:......

Amit Shah to attend Ratan Tata's funeral in Mumbai

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the funeral of industrialist Ratan Tata in Mumbai on Thursday, sources said on Thursday. IMAGE: Union Home Minister Amit Shah shakes hand with Tata group......

Infosys commits to provide Salesforce 500 tech jobs

IT services major Infosys on Wednesday announced a new programme, wherein it will offer 500 job seekers the opportunity to complete a fully digital, online diploma course certified by Salesforce.......

'Across industries, there is a shortage of digital skills'

'The kind of jobs the advent of artificial intelligence, data science and so on are creating simply didn't exist before' Photograph: Kind courtesy, Gerd Altmann/Pixabay The IT industry in India......

'Sebi has given go ahead for RailTel IPO'

'We have filed our draft red herring prospectus for a floating IPO for a net offer size of 86.6 million shares.'   Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters At a time when the Indian Railways......

'Bhansali teaches you without a danda'

'When you walk on to a Sanjay Leela Bhansali set, it is complete surrender. You have to become a sponge.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Aditi Rao Hydari/Instagram Aditi Rao Hydari looks even more......

Pankaj Tripathi Wants To Invite You To...

'Why not make plays more popular, so that people from all corners of society come and watch?' IMAGE: Pankaj Tripathi is the Rang Doot or Festival Ambassador of this year's Bharat Rang Mahotsav.......

'We all need a little piece of utopia in our life'

'This was a film, a story that had never been told before.' IMAGE: Koji Yakusho in Perfect Days. For the last four-and-a-half decades German film-maker Wim Wenders has been making compassionate......

19 Brilliant Movies You Need To Watch

Sukanya Verma gives us a lowdown on all those wonderful movies she saw and movies you need to see as and when they arrive to a screen or streaming space near you. A lot has changed since the 2019......

Nita Ambani re-elected to IOC unanimously

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Reliance Industries Limited/X Indian sports administrator Nita Amabani was on Wednesday re-elected unanimously as member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC),......

Athletes step up to help fight coronavirus in Brazil

IMAGE: World Cup winning captain in 1994 and former Brazil's head soccer coach Dunga, Internacional's soccer club player Andres D'Alessandro and former soccer player Tinga help with food......

Kobe Bryant's widow breaks silence on NBA superstar's death

IMAGE: Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa attend the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on March 4,......