Despite its loud, celebrity-driven campaigns asking citizens to vote, the Election Commission has failed to ensure that eligible voters don't disappear from the electoral rolls. Illustration:......
Rival governments in Tamil Nadu expend the most on social welfare schemes, especially targeting women and youth and children, but that money comes only by selling more liquor. There is always the......
A nun at the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy Mission in Mysuru has alleged that she was assaulted and molested in connivance with some superiors of her religious congregation for exposing 'illegal......
India's water future remains very bleak.The monsoon season, which once extended to 4 months, is now down to less than 30 days of heavy rain.Rashme Sehgal reports. IMAGE: River streams in......
The BJP seems wanting to return to a 'Tamil Hindutva' agenda for elections in Tamil Nadu, explains N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi prostrates before the Sengol before its......
Provisions in the Central GST Act say reduction in GST rates or the benefit of ITC must be passed on to consumers. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The National Anti-Profiteering......
Powerlooms and a lack of policy have pushed heritage art towards extinction, say Shreya Jai and Subhayan Chakraborty. IMAGE: The weavers from Varanasi say they are struggling to......
IMAGE: The Pepsi ad, which has now been pulled, attracted deserved uproar with people variously dubbing it "tone-deaf", "racist" and "simplistic". How India became a high-priority......
What can you gift a man who commands a Rs 25 lakh crore empire (Rs 25 trillion), employs 37 crore (370 million) people, and is sitting on foreign exchange reserves worth $118 billion?In short, what......
Is the increase in the prices of petroleum products justified? Here's what H L Zutshi, former chairman of HPCL, and Ram Naik, former petroleum minister, have to say about it.H L ZutshiFormer......
'I remember how my grandmother was scared for me when I joined the industry because she was aware of the hurdles and pitfalls.''It's a harsh place.''When the going is good, it's great, but you......
June has arrived and it's time for Bollywood's Bhai to take centrestage. Yes, Salman's mega Eid release, Bharat, is on its way to the theatres. In the mix of masala flicks that will......
Take this fun poll! 'It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great,' is how Tom Hanks explains the value of endurance in sports to the......
Offbeat films are the latest fad in Bollywood.Granted, the audience is bored of conventional love stories and there is an overwhelming need for new ideas. But experimenting for the sake of it can......
'There are 10 people (around them) -- the PR person, the media person, the managers, the fitness person, the security...''We were never pampered. If we said something wrong, we would get......
IMAGE: PV Sindhu argues with the umpire after being handed a point penalty. Photograph: Twitter Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu was left in tears after an "unfair" call by the umpires midway......
For someone whose consistency was an issue some years ago, Mayank Agarwal has now scored two double hundreds in his last four Test appearances. And he wants to make every opportunity count.......
Cancelling the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday would only "empower extremists", the country's Crown Prince told reporters on Friday, following pro-democracy protesters' calls to mark the......
Gaurav Ghei was the lone Indian to ensure action over the weekend while his four compatriot in the fray crashed out at the midway stage of the BMW Asian Open golf tournament in Shanghai on Friday.......
In his prime, he used to not only block opposition raids but also dribble past the rival defence with elan and rarely missed the target; but negotiating the bureaucratic maze is altogether a......