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'In quest for moksha': Foreigners take dip in Sangam

Among a sea of humanity that took the holy dip in the Sangam in their quest for 'moksha' on Monday was a large number of overseas visitors, soaking in the spiritual fervour at the world's largest......

'Modi has no baggage like Rahul does'

'When the Congress is put against someone like Narendra Modi, they do not have anything new to offer to the people of India.' IMAGE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters......

Anyone who kills cows is deemed to rot in hell: Allahabad HC

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has expressed hope that the Centre will take an appropriate decision to ban cow slaughter and declare it as a 'protected national animal'.......

PHOTOS: Rare rocks for Lord Ram idol reach Ayodhya

Special rocks from which the idol of Lord Ram will be carved out and placed in the sanctum sanctorum of the Ram Temple have arrived from Nepal, a senior functionary of the temple trust in Ayodhya......

Will Pakistan Be Less Of A Nuisance?

With a narrow industrial base and dysfunctional politics, and a counter-productive national security agenda, Pakistan could well remain an 'international migraine', observes T N Ninan. IMAGE: A......

What looms for Greece after referendum

Euro zone policymakers have openly spoken out in favour of a 'yes' vote Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's plan to hold a referendum on Sunday on creditors' demands for austerity has prompted a......

Jobs, cash and other Indian headaches

Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com If there is one thing that deep-thinking observers agree about the recently......

Pinarayi and Gadkari link up on development

'Curiously, Pinarayi's approach, stressing the imperatives of development, is robustly backed by Nitin Gadkari.''I stand next only to Gadkari, one of the few outstanding ministers in the Modi......

The man who saved billions from starvation

Image: Norman Borlaug rescued India from a severe food crisis. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters The work of Norman Borlaug, who helped save billions from starvation, is worth recalling, especially......

The case for an Indian sovereign wealth fund

If an Indian SWF raised the return on the RBI's reserves by a percentage point, India's growth rate would go up by 0.2 per cent The Indian government is once again considering whether it should......

The Official Timekeeper Of Beating Hearts

If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our......

The Indian film that received a standing ovation in Venice

'The nicest thing is that it is not my film.''People bring their own stories and life histories to the film.' Shubhashish Bhutiani, 25, recently took his first feature film Mukti Bhawan (Hotel......

302 films in 365 days!

Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 302 films in 365 days on airplanes, on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Google, Hulu, DVDs and even on YouTube. As a journalist I often write about films. I see many,......

A sham called Shanghai

In a movie supposedly realistic, Dibakar Banerjee cannot handle politics except as a joke, with a party named 'India Bane Pardes' in Shanghai.We in India have been blessed by a film culture that......

Youngistaan review: I wouldn't vote for It

Youngistaan neither says something new nor does it reinforce time-tested wisdom in a way that you actually want to pay attention to it, feels Paloma Sharma. The civilisation is ancient, the......

Football Focus: 'Messi needs Barca and Barca needs Messi'

IMAGE: Former Barca great Xavi urged Barca to hand a new contract to Lionel Messi, whose current deal expires next year. Photograph: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images Former Barcelona great Xavi......

Underachievers England face Slovenia in must-win tie

England's World Cup campaign is in tatters with crisis meetings, furious fans, misfiring strikers and splits in the camp and a win against Slovenia on Wednesday is their only hope of salvation. In......

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