'My one recommendation would be to first quell the violence and then encourage dialogue and build the trust among the different communities.' 'This is not easy but necessary, for violence cannot be......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the Quad is not against anyone, but for a rules-based international order and respect for sovereignty, in a veiled reference to China. IMAGE: Prime......
‘Voting also involves communal factors, caste factors and so on, but increasingly, the caste factor is making less and less sense to the Indian voter,’ says journalist and author Manu......
'It's better to part ways on a happy note than staying together nursing hard feelings.' IMAGE: Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray greets his supporters after being sworn in as Maharashtra chief......
'In China there is capital punishment for heritage theft. That is how they treat criminals, unlike us.''Here we treat them like it's a house-breaking theft.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra......
Despite the government crackdown on Web sites advertising escort services, the Internet leaves enough wiggle room for debauchery to thrive, reports Dhruv Munjal.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
The blockchain, the public ledger that tracks every bitcoin transaction, is changing commerce as we know it, says Devangshu Datta. Photograph: George Frey/Getty Images Columbus famously found a......
'Unlike money stashed abroad, domestic black money is not idle' 'Black money that is stashed abroad is around $1.5 trillion' R Vaidyanathan (bottom, left) has been a professor of finance and......
Despite what the World Bank and IMF trained gnomes in North Block, South Block and Yojana Bhavan say, the numbers of the poor is rising alarmingly, says Mohan Guruswamy.A year ago, at about this......