The unemployment rate shot up to a record 10.9 per cent in the week that ended on December 18, points out Mahesh Vyas. IMAGE: Labourers wait for work at a market on a cold morning in Delhi. Kindly......
'We still don't know how viruses that we ingest are killed inside our bodies.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Aversion to bathing reached an extreme in the UK in the 1600s. Wearing linen......
Jyoti Punwani decodes Modi's Covid Vaccine speech. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi addresses the nation a day after India crossed the 1 billion COVID-19 vaccination milestone,......
What are the most worrisome aspects of climate change for India?Can they be solved?Environment crusader Sunita Narain believes it is possible.A must read excerpt from her latest book, Conflicts Of......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers, keeping to herself nine departments, including Home, Land and Land Reforms.......
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday retained the retail inflation projection at 4.5 per cent for fiscal 2024-25, with Governor Shaktikanta Das stressing that the central bank will have to closely monitor......
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday retained its projection for retail inflation at 4.5 per cent for the current fiscal assuming a normal monsoon, while emphasising that uncertainties related to......
The economy may grow by around 7 per cent this financial year as estimated by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), say economists with various organisations.......
'The last year's growth is a foretaste of things to come in the retail credit market.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Did you know that fintech lenders gave out Rs 29,875 crore (Rs......
Deteriorating ties between India and Canada could have a bearing on flows into the domestic capital markets. At present, Canada is the seventh largest country for foreign portfolio investor (FPI)......
Had he not taken his final curtain call on April 23, 1992, Satyajit Ray would still, undoubtedly, have been making movies. His films still dazzle with their technical artistry and are relevant even......
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. 'I don't need......
While Calcutta has transitioned to Kolkata, Satyajit Ray's detective, Feluda, has remained unchanged in the Bengali consciousness Here’s a mystery for Prodosh C Mitter to solve. How can a......
True masterpieces are so few and far-between, that when one comes upon us, awe is obvious. It's been many years since I last watched Satyajit Ray's 1968 classic Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, and thanks......
Manikdadu would have frowned. (Far be it for one of us to dare call the great Satyajit Ray just da.) A photo exhibit and screening of his Aranyer Din Ratri at a Mumbai theatre was an instance of......