'This Is An Andhra Pradesh-Bihar Budget'

From the word go, Bihar growled its needs out when an MP from the state said aloud: "Give something for Bihar also, Madam."Every time the Budget mentioned cities and towns in Andhra Pradesh, "Kursi......

'You Put The Common Man On Discomfort'

'You can focus on Vande Bharat but focus on the common man too.''You can have both. They are mutually exclusive.' IMAGE: Commuters travel in a crowded AC compartment of a suburban train in Mumbai.......

Miscreants vandalised property, threatened inmates: RKM

Miscreants have vandalised premises of the Ramakrishna Mission in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district and threatened monks and other employees at gunpoint to leave the place, an RKM official said......

Free ration, healthcare: What BJP's manifesto promises

Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha poll manifesto in New Delhi on Sunday in the presence of party president J P Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence......

'Our partnership with BharatPe is firm and good'

'Banking is a business of trust.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Ashneer Grover, co-founder and managing director of fintech BharatPe, valued at least $3 billion, has taken voluntary......

Bidding of BSNL land assets fails to garner interest

The first ever auction of non-core assets through the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management’s (DIPAM) asset monetisation portal has failed to garner adequate response for land......

Airlines, ground handlers told to go green

The civil aviation ministry has mandated airlines and ground-handling companies to phase out airport equipment older than 12 years and switch to electric or fuel-efficient variants by May 2022.......

Of power, privatisation and politics

The push to privatise discoms has become a major bone of contention between the Centre and states. The irony is the states opposing the amendments on the ground of threat of privatisation already......

Rajamouli's Next Film Stars Mahesh Babu

Photograph: Kind courtesy Mahesh Babu/Instagram No more costume dramas for S S Rajamouli, at least for now. Six years and three lavish period films (Baahubali Part 1 and 2, RRR) later, the......

How Global Remakes Fare In Bollywood

The Aamir Khan starrer Laal Singh Chaddha releasing on August 11 is an official remake of Forrest Gump. It is one of the rare instances of a Hindi film for which official rights have been taken......

Alia-Ranbir's Wedding Album

More and more pictures from Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor's wedding! Please click on the images for glimpses of the Shaadi Of The Year.   IMAGE: Alia and Ranbir make the perfect couple,......

'Delhi Crime won top Emmy, but people know me from Mirzapur'

'The chowkidar and the paanwala have seen Mirzapur.''They may have missed Delhi Crime, but they have seen Mirzapur'.'Sometimes I feel I have done so much work, why do people know me only by this......

'Ashwin's body was used like a dart board by Hazlewood and Cummins'

As Ravichandran Ashwin achieved the milestone 100th Test in Mohali, everyone had their lists of his best bowling feats. But Ashwin's finest cricketing moment was probably when he and Hanuma Vihari......

Is This The Ball Of The 21st Century?

Remember Shane Warne's Ball Of The Century, the delivery that proclaimed his genius to the cricketing universe? Ah, but that was so last century. Thirty one years ago this June. We have a contender......

PHOTOS: India in command after Jadeja, Rahul fifties

IMAGES from Day 2 of the 1st Test played between India and England in Hyderabad, on Friday. SCORECARD IMAGE: Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel piled on the misery for England with sone lusty......

How Rohit and Jadeja put India in box seat

IMAGE: India finished day two on 321-7 replying to Australia's below-par 177 in the first innings. Photograph: BCCI/Twitter Rohit Sharma produced a captain's knock of 120 and Ravindra Jadeja......