Ratnesh Sada, JD-U's answer to Manjhi, may be sworn in on Friday

Janata Dal-United MLA Ratnesh Sada, whom the party seeks to project as its Dalit face, is likely to be inducted into the Nitish Kumar cabinet on Friday, highly placed sources said in Patna on......

Is India ready for Pak superiority in drone warfare?

While Pakistan enjoys rough parity with India in legacy weapon systems, it is beginning to enjoy superiority in drone warfare, thanks to the RPVs supplied by China, explains Ajai Shukla. IMAGE:......

Is That MGR?!

Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran Menon aka MGR was the first movie star to become a chief minister in India. After him came N T Rama Rao in Andhra Pradesh and then his movie protege and political heir......

Winter washout: Why was Modi so stubborn?

'Modi has lost a great opportunity to show himself to be a leader, mentor and path-setter, capable of rising above narrow party interests,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant. In an......

DLF Aman sale vaults it to Asia list for top hotel deals

DLF, India's largest real estate company, joined the Asian big league in hotel deals after it sold Aman Resorts at around Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion) to the latter's founder, Adrian Zecha,......

Neeraj Chopra: Next Brand Superstar

The man with the golden arm could surpass some, if not all, top cricketers -- the demigods who stand well above athletes from other disciplines in India, reports Ritwik Sharma. IMAGE: Neeraj......

Hiring gets AI power, but scope is limited for some

56 per cent of the companies said they’d automated their processes, while 72 per cent felt technology could be leveraged to digitise employee records. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Want to buy physical gold? Pick a digital platform for your investment

While players like Paytm, MobiKwik, and PhonePe allow you to buy gold for Re 1, Amazon Pay has kept the minimum amount at Rs 5. Digital gold is essentially an avenue for investing in physical gold.......

Psst! Wanna buy an Oscar?

You win an Academy Award. You make a speech, walk off the stage with your statue, bring it home, and you put it on the mantle. Very cool. But what if someday you wanted to--or worse, needed......

Meet the first Indian woman to be elected as IOC member

Nita Ambani, an Indian businesswoman and owner of the Mumbai Indians Indian Premier League franchise, was among eight new members elected to the International Olympic Committee on Thursday on the......

PKL can give the IPL a run for its money

'At a time when sports leagues are often smothered by the allure of spurious glamour, it is easy to forget what makes them so exciting in the first place: The sport itself.''At its core, the PKL......