'What is happening is not vikas but vinash'

'These kinds of tunnels are not meant for the Himalayas.''Development should be good for all people and not where you make a tunnel and 40 people get trapped.' IMAGE: A drone view of the rescue......

Cyclone Michaung paralyses Chennai, revives fears of 2015 flood

Cyclone Michaung wreaked havoc across Chennai and its neighboring districts, inundating the city, causing disruptions in flights and trains, and startling residents with a video capturing a......

Emerging AI: What Awaits Us?

Ajit Balakrishnan offers lessons from another tech revolution not so long ago. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com "I will not go to college today if you don't buy me a nylon sari," I heard......

Test Your Big Cat IQ

The homecoming of the cheetah to India leads one to wonder what exactly are the differences between it and leopards that, often visibly, prowl India's jungles and countryside? Do you know the......

From Mata to Menace: How the holy cow may end up 'eating' votes

Thanks to the increased thrust on cow protection, the enforcement of the ban on cow slaughter and the relentless crusade by cow vigilantes, the agrarian ecosystem from Haryana to Uttar Pradesh has......

'Environment to bring people into the financial system is very strong in India'

Venture capitalists Adam Wolfensohn and Ameya Bijoor tell Anjuli Bhargava about the kind of investments and companies they are looking at in India. After a year of funding crunch... IMAGE:......

How to end tax uncertainty

When the Authority for Advance Rulings was born in 1999, it was a blue baby, a powerless creature, which could give ruling only for proposed activities, notes Sukumar Mukhopadhyay Certainty of tax......

With Rs 10,800 crore, Yuri Milner eyes Indian start-ups

Image: Russian billionaire Yuri Milner with wife Julia. Photograph courtesy: Breakthrough Prize website     Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire investor, on Thursday announced......

Why Merry Christmas Left Me Feeling Shortchanged

If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Katrina Kaif in......

2023's Must Watch Movies From Around The World

2023 was a good year for international cinema with many strong films premiering at the Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Toronto film festivals. In the post-pandemic situation, as restrictions were......

Bipasha: Everything scares me. I am a fattu!

Here are 5 things that really SCARE Bipasha Basu. Bipasha Basu has become a horror queen of sorts. She has acted in scores of horror movies like Aatma, Raaz and Darna Zaroori Hai, and they have......

10 OTT shows to watch

Fresh off the OTT oven, Sukanya Verma picks 10 hot new treats for you. Your OTT Shows Guide   It’s Okay To Not Be OkayWhere to watch: NetflixLanguage: Korean A children’s book......

'Kohli's longevity connected to fitness'

IMAGE: Faf du Plessis said Virat Kohli's hunger for physical fitness was their connecting point when he joined RCB in 2022. Photograph: Virat Kohli/Instagram Virat Kohli's unwavering passion for......

India footballer Jeje patrols Mizoram river to prevent overfishing

IMAGE: India footballer Jeje Lalpekhlua along with a number of youth from his village -- Model Veng Hnahthial -- formed a group that works day and night to help preserve the ecosystem of the river......

India's Baahubali Captain

His cricketing brain, always sharp, was blessed with exceptional speed of information absorption and processing.He could quickly zero in on what needed to be done and use the element of surprise to......

The tale of two talents

Failure spurs one and success spurns the other.At the start of the Test series between India and Pakistan, Sourav Ganguly and Younis Khan were as unlike each other as possible.They still are the......

'Why do you want a guy with no experience'

Ajit Wadekar, who led India to its maiden Test series triumphs in the West Indies and England in 1971, remains the country's most successful professional coach. His tenure as Team India's coach was......