Modiji Blesses Anant-Radhika

IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi flanked by newly weds Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant and Mukesh and Nita Ambani at the Shubh Ashirwad ceremony at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai, July 13,......

How year's most extravagant wedding was made secure

Entry based on a QR code messaged on personal mobile phones, colour-coded paper wristbands for access to different zones, and a medical response preparedness reserved for heads of state helped......

Will Sunak be re-elected? Voting begins in UK polls

The future of Rishi Sunak as Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party hangs in the balance as polling booths opened across the United Kingdom on Thursday, with millions......

Can Sunak turn the tide against Labour for record second term?

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak kicked off his campaign with a distribution centre visit in eastern England in the early hours of Tuesday, the penultimate day of campaigning ahead of polling day......

REDIFF ARCHIVES: 'The most boring person is one who plays safe'

Mumbai-origin Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon, who migrated to Britain with little funds and went on to found several Indian food companies that made him known as Britain’s first ‘Curry......

Forget smart cities, India must first make existing ones livable

Here's what the government should do to make our cities better - work out a plan to manage the traffic situation and make public transport more attractive. Image: Most Indian cities are grappling......

Banking transactions are now just a kirana shop away

Image: Novopay Solutions allows one to make bank-related transactions in a kirana store. Photograph: Courtesy, Novopay Khosla Labs, launched by investor Vinod Khosla, has incubated a technology......

2 Indians selected as Yale World Fellows

Two Indians -- Monika Halan and Sonali Kochhar -- have been selected for the prestigious Yale World Fellows, which is Yale University's signature global leadership development initiative.Monika......

Bury expelled after 125 years in English Football League

Bury joined the Football League in 1894, nine years after they were founded, and won the FA Cup in 1900 and 1903. IMAGE: A Bury FC fan drapes himself with the club flag outside the stadium.......

Indian hand in London Olympics

There is an Indian hand in the successful bid and holding of the London Olympics beginning on Friday. As the unprecedented third Olympics in London gets underway, NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul......

Former British PM Blair defends Games expenses

Two days from the start of the Olympics, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended his decision to deliver the games to London, maintaining on Wednesday that the event will be value for......

Rooney among new phone-hacking claimants

Football star Wayne Rooney and former Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie are among a new group of 46 people suing over alleged phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper,......

London Olympics will help to revive sports legacy: Tony Blair

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on Wednesday, said Twenty20 cricket is a good advertisement for the game since more people are watching the sport with the advent of the slam-bang format.......