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......

Workers' kin anxious as tunnel rescue op hits repeated hurdles

"He looked very stressed and impatient and kept asking us when would they come out," Sunita, whose brother-in-law Virender is among the 41 workers trapped inside the collapsed tunnel in Silkyara in......

Mumbai: MNS members attack Airtel outlet

Five suspected members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on Tuesday smashed the entrance glass of an Airtel outlet in Mumbai to protest the private telecom major not using Marathi language......

After 87 years, Bihar jail manual set to be changed

Bihar Jail Manual would be amended after 87 years to categorise the inmates as per their offence and educational qualification. The jail manual was last modified in 1925. Young offenders aged......

Debt Collection Goes Digital

Companies don't have to be in the field to nudge people to return money they owe lenders. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Rishab Goel, co-founder of the digital-debt collections firm......

Machines to make sales pitch on phone soon

Auto-diallers using the interactive voice response technology are replacing the method of sending SMSs to sell a product or a service. Next time you answer the phone, chances are there won't be a......

Does phone banking really help?

A current ad for a telephone sports the tagline: "It's not one thing, it's many." That, in essence, is what a telephone has become. Among the many things, it can be half-a-banker too. Banks mainly......

Rs 250 cr Idea contract for IBM

Idea Cellular, the Aditya Birla group company, has awarded a Rs 205-250 crore ($50-55 million) contract to International Business Machines (IBM) to deploy and maintain an interactive voice response......

The BEST Moments in Hindi Films in 2016

Aseem Chhabra lists the elements that he loved and was pleasantly surprised by in the movies. As the year closes, critics and film writers come up with their favourite lists -- the top 10 best and......

Agents seek bigger voice in future

A newly formed group of athletes' representatives are meeting in Miami this week to seek a larger voice in the development of athletics."We are a part of the new track and field and it is important......

'Indian cricket's colourful story is still being written'

'What is true khadoos? Stubborn? Dogged? Unyielding? Relentless? Or something in between that? Or all of it together?' 'Just like you can't translate it, you can't teach a kid to be khadoos either.......

'Individual stars don't make a team'

Viren Rasquinha says,Hello everyone. This is Viren Rasquinha here. You can start sending your questions now. Rups asked,We taught the World hockey and now we are nowhere near the top, How come......

Readers speak out!

Click here for moreSourav NiyogiWithout the Bengal tiger India seemed like headless chickens on the Kotla.....Ex cricketers and irresponsible media contributed to India's downfall.. once again it......