Monsoon Will Be 'Above-Normal' This Year

It is in more than a decade that the IMD has predicted 'above-normal' rains in the country. IMAGE: Medical staff wade through a waterlogged road in Nagpur, September 23, 2023. Photograph: Kind......

'Supreme Court verdict on Article 370 is a missed opportunity'

'On hard cases like this one, the Supreme Court has only episodically stood against Parliament and the executive government.' 'I worry that this decision sets a precedent where President's rule is......

SC finds police probe standards 'disappointing' across the country

Dismayed over "disappointing" standards of police probe across the country, the Supreme Court has said it was high time a “consistent and dependable code of investigation” was devised......

SEE: Pragyan covers 8 metres of Moon's surface

Chandrayaan-3 mission's rover 'Pragyan' has traversed a distance of about eight metres on the lunar surface, and its payloads have been turned on, ISRO said on Friday. All payloads on the......

'AI Doesn't Care Where It Goes To School'

'No one manufactures intelligence at the moment.''This is a concept that your IT industry understands.''What you need is infrastructure. Everything else can then be taken care of.' Illustration:......

'The real GDP was captured better'

'Revision of the base year for both CPI and GDP are long overdue.''The basic data that went into the 2011-2012 series were mainly from surveys done in 2011 or earlier.''We have since seen the......

'Prefer largecap to midcaps and smallcaps'

'Midcap and smallcap indices are trading in the expensive zone.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Valuations for the benchmark Nifty are in the comfort zone but small and midcaps are......

Monsoon may finally start withdrawing in next three days, says IMD

The southwest monsoon might finally start withdrawing from parts of North-West India over the next three days, signaling the end of its four-month journey over the country that started in June, the......

'I thought I was losing myself to this character'

'I always wanted to play a negative character, so I was like why not play it with Mr Bhansali?''As they say, be careful what you wish for.''I wanted to play an antagonist and I got the most evil......

Poor rating for Nagpur pitch a subjective decision by match referee Crowe: BCCI

The Board of Control for Cricket in India president Shashank Manohar on Wednesday said that the BCCI will abide by the International Cricket Council's decision of rating Nagpur pitch as 'poor' but......