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'Terrorism Is Over'

Tral, the former hotbed of terrorism, rocks to the music of democracy, discovers Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com. IMAGE: Security personnel keep a strict vigil at Engineer Rashid's roadshow in......

India The Diplomatic Ambassador In Global Crises

Times have changed, situations have changed, but the basic nature of superpower geo-politics remains the same and so also India's diplomacy -- call it non-alignment, strategic autonomy or......

Mission Mausam: Know everything about Rs 2000 crore project

As weather patterns grow more unpredictable due to climate crisis, India is taking a giant leap with "Mission Mausam" to improve weather understanding and forecasting through expanded observation......

What Mahabali Won't Hear

Questions that the state had come to recognise over time but consistently delayed treating seriously because doing so requires an overhaul of perspective and lifestyle, notes Shyam G Menon. IMAGE:......

How India Won Back Maldives's Trust

The avoidable stresses and strains in ties helped in one way.It showed for the entire region how a matured India handled diplomatic relations, especially with a smaller and suspicious neighbour,......

SpiceJet's Ajay Singh may sell over 10% stake

SpiceJet promoter and chairman Ajay Singh may offload more than 10 per cent stake in the struggling carrier as part of the latest funding round that is expected to close by the end of September,......

Tracking non-food retail inflation trends in India

Amid a debate on the basis of a monetary policy stance, one may be curious enough to know how non-food retail inflation has behaved over the years in India. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......

The Machine That Saved Tanishq

Stories are legion about the Karatmeter's use at that time.Hundreds of people standing in queue for testing, customers breaking down after discovering the actual purity of their jewellery and then......

As steel stocks falter, a silver lining for investors

Stocks of Indian steel companies are reeling from pricing pressure that is partly blamed on cheap imports. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters The stocks have declined up to 9 per cent on the NSE......

How We Can Create Millions Of Jobs

'Three manufacturing sectors can create jobs by the million: Apparel, food, and electronic assembly.''Let's talk to them and ask them what it would take to scale by a factor of ten,' suggests......

The Path-Breaking '70s Actor You Didn't Know

Rehana Sultan was all set to be a path-breaker.The time was right.Hindi cinema had emerged from the 1960s musicals era.But somehow, leading film-makers of the time did not believe Rehana had that......

Rashmika Has An Accident

Raashii explores London... Karisma shoots for a dance show... Nimrat makes a Ganpati... Photograph: Kind courtesy Rashmika Mandanna/Instagram Rashmika Mandanna asks, 'Hey guys, How've you been? I......

Please Send Payal's Film To The Oscars!

How wonderful it would be for all of us to watch the Oscar ceremony on March 2, 2025 and watch AWIAL win an Oscar, notes Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE: Divya Prabha kisses Director Payal Kapadia at the......

The Diary Of West Bengal Review: Senseless!!

How can a film that has a character declare that secularism is an illness be taken seriously, asks Deepa Gahlot. The condition of West Bengal as well as Bangladesh is such at the moment that a......

The Most Memorable Goodbye Turns 50

'Garm Hava understands that the scorching, hate-filled, doubt-filled affair between Hindus and Muslims is our national love affair.' Sreehari Nair revisits M S Sathyu's classic film, featuring the......

ACT Hockey Semis: India v South Korea - Who Will Prevail?

IMAGE: Team India has been in scintillating form in the Asian Champions Trophy 2024. Photograph: Hockey India / X Maintaining a clean slate, favourites India will fancy their chances when they take......

Meet the first Indian origin player in MLB!

Kumar Rocker scripts Major League Baseball history IMAGE: 24-year-old Kumar Rocker was on fire on his Major League Baseball debut on Thursday. Photographs: Kind courtesy Texas Rangers/X To say......

First time in India! Test match called off without a ball being bowled

IMAGE: This was only the eighth time in Test cricket history that a match was abandoned without a ball being bowled. Photograph:Black Caps/X The one-off Test between Afghanistan and New Zealand......

Chess Olympiad 2024: Gukesh stars as India outwit Iceland

IMAGE: Grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh outclassed H Stefansson of Iceland in the second round of the 45th Chess Olympiad. Photograph: Lennart Ootes/FIDE The Indian men's team got off to another 3-0......

'The percentage of women chess players in India is quite less'

IMAGE: Koneru Humpy said there should be more women's chess tournaments in India to encourage young players to take up the sport. Photograph: Stev Bonhage/Norway Chess/FIDE Former World Rapid......

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