Bharat Bandh: Rail services disrupted, roads blocked across country

Sporadic incidents of violence were reported on Monday during a Congress-led opposition sponsored 'Bharat bandh' against spiralling fuel prices that disrupted normal life mainly in Bihar, Kerala,......

US wants to monitor Air Quality; India stunned

13 out of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in India. Most shockingly, the latest Central Pollution Control Board statistics reveal that the pollution levels in Gwalior, Raipur and even......

Bandh: Oppn fuels public angst over price hike

The combined Opposition's call for a Bharat Bandh on Monday has brought most of the country to a near standstill. Rediff.com correspondents report from across the country: Mumbai: Senior BJP leader......

BJP bandh evokes mixed response

Curfew continued for the second day in Jammu on Thursday, with extra-ordinary security bandbast to prevent the eruption of further protests against the cancellation of the forest land allotment to......

Govt seeks RBI nod to launch India Post Payments bank

The IPPB, which is currently running pilot services in Raipur and Ranchi, needs a go-ahead from RBI for the software used for system integration The government will soon launch the India Post......

Humans of demonetisation

The currency ban has changed the lives of the people facilitating this move across India. 'My mother now works 12 hours a day' 'Initially, crowd management was a big challenge': Bank manager R......

When local real estate players go national

South City Projects, a consortium of some of Kolkata's largest realtors, recently bagged two projects in Dubai. One, a 1,50,000 sq ft office building inside the Dubai Investment Park, and the......

Market magic casts equity spell on small towns

The unprecedented three-year-long bull run on the stock market has triggered a spurt in demat accounts in tier-III cities like Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, Dhanbad in Bihar, Kangra in Himachal Pradesh......