At least 25 people were killed and 80 injured, about 32 of them seriously, while 250 people were missing following an attack by some 800 armed Naxalites in Dantewada district on Monday, police......
'He has sacrificed a lot. Always done something for others. But never asked for anything in return.'Union Minister Vijay Goel remembers Atalji. I do not remember when I met Vajpayeeji for the......
I do not remember when I met Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji for the first time. I do remember, however, thatwhen I was in school I used to walk from Roop Nagar in north Delhi to the Ramlila Maidan whenever......
Udit Raj, chairman of Indian Justice Party and president of the All India Confederation of SC/ST, hailed the United Progressive Alliance government's move to pass a constitutional amendment bill......
In an apparent bid to take a high moral ground, NDA-backed presidential candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Friday made a public declaration of his assets and liabilities, which showed that he......
Indian family-run business houses have in recent years seen ugly public spats between owners over control. Image: Shashi Ruia (left) and Ravi Ruia. Photograph: PTI Photo from the Rediff Archives......
Apollo Tyres on Thursday said it is lookingat laying off about 1,500 of its workforce. We are looking at about 15 per cent of contract and casual labours(for job cuts). We are not going to cut......
India and Russia on Monday agreed that their oil and gas companies would work together for exploration and production activities in third countries.One possible destination could be the oil-rich......
India Inc and economic think-tanks want the Budget to tax the agriculture income of large farmers for equity in the system and widening the net. There is no rationale in exempting from tax the......
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday assured a fast-track approach to the re-structuring of Industrial Training Institutes in a meeting with the industry associations.Chidambaram, who......
A former minister in the Chandrashekhar government in the early 1990s, Lokendra Singh Kalvi, 54,has a new agenda. He has now taken up the issue of the distortion of history in Ashutosh Gowarikar's......
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, president of the Indian Hockey Federation, has defended chief coach Rajinder Singh for telling captain Dhanraj Pillay and the players not to speak to the media.Gill himself......
Indian Hockey Federation president Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, as always, was composed when asked for his reaction to Indian hockey's latest debacle. In an exclusive conversation with rediff.com, he......
Indian Hockey Federation president Kanwar Pal Singh Gill clarified tonight that there was no secret agenda in not including seven senior members of the team that won the Asia Cup hockey tournament......
Young middle-order batsman Mandeep Singh scored an unbeaten 158 to guide Punjab to 329 for 5 against Uttar Pradesh in the opening day of the Group A Ranji Trophy Elite division match in Mohali on......
Mumbai's top-order fired in unison to steer their team to a commanding position against Gujarat at the end of the first day's play of their Ranji Trophy Group A Elite match in Valsad on Wednesday.......