Will AAP's broom sweep out BJP, Congress in Karnataka?

Over 100,000 members have joined the party’s state unit, says Praveen Bose The Aam Aadmi Party is stretching itself to register people keen on taking up membership of the party in the states,......

Scientists versus govt: The procedural gap widens

Most senior scientists have complained of repeated questioning by the expenditure department, bureaucratic delays in clearances, more focus on procedure than on result and the lack of an......

Minute errors can lead to failure of Mars mission: ISRO chief

With the Indian Space Research Organisation set to launch the Mars Mission on November 5, Chairman K Radhakrishnan, in an interview with Praveen Bose, talks about the complexities, the challenges......

Morning Wrap: And this was NEWS as well

Here is Rediff.com's selection of some stories from Thursday that you may not have read in the morning newspaper. * If records at a fair price shop in Farukhabad are to be believed, Deepika......

Warning bells ring over B'lore as BPO destination

Warning bells are ringing on Bangalore's future as a leading BPO destination. It is not a full-blown crisis yet but the portents are disturbing, according to a cross section of industry, human......

South Indian NRI docs head home

An increasingly large number of non-resident Indian doctors is returning home to south India, giving a third leg to the reverse brain drain phenomenon that mostly involved software engineers and......

Tax dept will continue sending letters to non-filers: FinMin

Encouraged by the ‘results’, Finance Ministry said it will continue to send letters to assesses who do not file income tax return."We have been sending letters. "We are getting results.......

What to gift your boss on New Year

Shahrukh Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Abhishek Bachchan shouldn't be the only ones who get to endorse and keep all the cool gadgets in the market this year. Check out which gadgets corporate heads are......

Poorna Review: Goes for mountains, settles for mole-hills

There is no escaping Rahul Bose's compassion. He wears it like a name tag in Poorna, feels Sreehari Nair. In a video which has Rahul Bose talking about Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, his hands assume......

"I climbed Mount Everest to prove that women can do anything'

'Before I climbed Everest, nobody knew me. But after that, people come to meet me. It's an exciting life!' Meet the real and the reel Poorna girls! IMAGE: Rahul Bose, Aditi Inamdar and Poorna......

'I have never done films to feed my stomach'

'I do films because I want to feel proud of myself as an actor.''Why should I sign nonsense? IMAGE: Rahul Bose. Photograph: Kind courtesy Rahul Bose/Twitter Rahul Bose has made one of the toughest......

The 10 WORST Films of 2017

Sreehari Nair wasn't impressed with Rangoon at all.But find out which film tops his list! There's no glory in having on this list a Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laddoo Deewana or a Ranchi Diaries. These......

Sports Shorts: Sharath ends decade long title drought

IMAGE: Achanta Sharath Kamal recovered well to outclass top seeded Marcos Freitas of Portugal. Photograph: Achanta Sharath Kamal/Twitter Ace Indian paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal ended his decade......

Ranji: Dinda, Bose ensure full points for Bengal

An inspirational catch at first slip by Anushtup Majumdar off Ranadeb Bose's bowling enabled Bengal earn three points against Delhi by virtue of 14-run first innings lead in a Group A Super League......

Mushtaq Ali: Punjab qualify, Karnataka in QF hunt

IMAGE: Jharkhand's Ishan Kishan bats during their match against Hyderabad on Monday. Photograph: BCCI Domestic/Twitter Mandeep Singh led from the front with an unbeaten 99 to help Punjab trounce......

Indian athletes grab two medals in Asian Indoor

Indian athletes won a silver and a bronze to wind up an otherwise disappointing show in the track and field events of the third Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi on Monday. The Indian women's 4X400m......

Seniors rested for Challenger Trophy

The experienced trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly will not play in this year's NKP Salve Challenger Trophy tournament, the BCCI announced on Friday. Most of the members of......