'It's dull because this time the election is spread over such a long period.' IMAGE: A vendor sells flags and umbrellas printed with the symbols of different policital parties at a market in......
'In terms of sheer incompetence, this government has rivaled the Rajiv Gandhi-led government that was derisively called the 'Baba-log' government for its naïve handling of many issues,' notes......
The arrest of veteran Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe in a money laundering case rocked Maharashtra Legislature on......
Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com recalls the many ways in which he has been influenced by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. We lived in a completely isolated defence township in Ozar, Nashik. It was the 1960s and......
Rediff.com’s Uttam Ghosh describes how the scene from his window on one of Mumbai’s few double-decker buses changes as he travels from suburban Kurla to Bandra Terminus -- route no......
Aviation turbine fuel accounts for 35-40 per cent of the total operating cost of an Indian airline. The move to open up air space, which was earlier reserved for the Indian Air Force (IAF), to......
UDAN demonstrates that good policy-making can fulfill important public requirements without requiring budgetary support, says MoS for civil aviation Jayant Sinha. IMAGE: An ATR aircraft landing on......
In the third of a four-part series, Sanjay Jog/Business Standard finds that the Nashik press has stepped up printing of currency notes to around 20 million a day, from 14 million a day till......