Groom reaches Guwahati on time for wedding thanks to railways

A Mumbai man managed to reach Guwahati on time to marry his lady love on Sunday, thanks to the help from railways that detained a connecting train in Howrah station and shifted the wedding guests......

The Lady With 11 Driving Licenses!

'I want to tell everybody there is nothing in the world that you can't do.''If you apply your mind, you can do anything and everything.' IMAGE: Radhamani Amma with her JCB. All photographs and......

'Because he never read it': Rahul's retort to Modi on Constitution

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks that the Constitution of India is 'blank' because he has never read it. IMAGE: Lok Sabha LoP and Congress leader......

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......

'Can We In Our Businesses Set An Example?'

'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from......

Have Indian regulators made the system more transparent?

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday commended Indian financial sector regulators for doing a "world-class job" and bringing greater transparency into the system. Photograph: ANI......

Modi urges global tech CEOs to be part of India growth story

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged CEOs of US majors to take advantage of India's growth story as the country is making all efforts to become the third largest economy of the world in his third......

LTIMindtree and L&T Technology Services plug into high-growth nodes

The listed information technology (IT) subsidiaries of engineering giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T), LTIMindtree (LTIM) and L&T Technology Services, have seen sharp upmoves over the past fortnight, with......

The Failed Promise of Indian 2

Kamal Haasan is right where he left off from the first film but there is only so much he can do to salvage an already lost cause, observes Arjun Menon. IMAGE: Kamal Haasan in Indian 2. A municipal......

Review: Kota Factory 3 Gets Darker

The new season takes the students out of their preoccupation with studies to other problems -- jealousy of another's easy success, a blip in a romance, financial crunch, meltdowns, discovers Deepa......

'I Salute All Those Preparing For IIT'

Photograph: Kind courtesy Ahsaas Channa/Instagram Ahsaas Channa is very excited about for the coming season of Kota Factory, where she reunites with Jitendra Kumar -- or as she calls him, 'Jeetu......

Diving Champ Manjari Bhargava Passes Into The Ages

Over five decades ago, when swimmers from Rajasthan participated in the National Swimming Championships, competitors from other states would look at the Rajasthan squad in awe. They wondered how a......

Paralympics: India's Sachin Khilari earns silver in men's shot put

IMAGE: Sachin Khilari achieved his best throw of the day in his second attempt to better his own Asian record of 16.30m. Photograph: Stephanie Lecocq/Reuters World champion Sachin Sarjerao Khilari......