IMAGE: A residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile attack in Mykolaiv. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters IMAGE: Rescuers work at a site of a damaged residential......
Chinese hubris and the slippery slope it finds itself on have important lessons for authoritarian leaders elsewhere, including in India, observes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). IMAGE: Xi Jinping,......
How has Raj Thackeray, who is as much a businessman as politician, been able to pull it off, when most Opposition politicians live in fear of IT and ED and CBI, asks Krishna Prasad after attending......
'The blood that runs in the veins of our family can never be anti-national.' 'They called Kanhaiya a traitor for questioning the Indian Army. Do they know that our cousin was killed by militants in......
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com checks out the steady stream of leaders and party workers flowing in and out of the BJP campaign headquarters in Varanasi, including the candidate's elder brother. The......
The Supreme Court on April 18 ordered the villagers be provided with basic forest rights in form of the land titles A recent show on a local Doordarshan channel about Dongria Kondhs, indigenous......
The 61st edition of the Frankfurt motor show can easily be called the mother of all auto shows. Over 1,000 exhibitors from 44 countries are present this year at what is formally known as......
On planes, on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Zee5, Hulu, MUBI, Kanopy, film festivals... Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 309 films in 365 days. IMAGE: Joanne Froggatt in Downton Abbey. I......
Sukanya Verma gives us a recap of the 91st Academy Awards. Oscars 2019 wasn't off to an auspicious start. At first, overwhelming opposition forced the Academy to withdraw its......
IMAGE: Kristbjorn Hilmir Kjartansson (right) and Gretar Jonsson, Iceland's supporters, pose for a picture with their Lada after a journey from home to Russia to watch their team at the FIFA World......
Vitaly Petrov left his Lada driving days far behind on Sunday when he signed with Renault as Russia's first Formula One racer. The 25-year-old from Vyborg, near the Finnish border, was runner-up in......