Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Will India CHANGE In Modi 3.0?

The climate for 'doing business' remains forbidding, taxtortion is still rife, corruption at state and district levels has increased, oil prices remain extortive with high taxation, and the......

Over 50% of rural Indians cutting down on food: Study

Over 50 per cent of households in rural India are cutting down on their food items following the COVID-19-induced lockdown, according to a study by leading civil rights bodies. IMAGE: Volunteers......

All you need to know about Bharat Ratna MS Swaminathan

Agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan's research as a plant geneticist addressed the issue of food insecurity and helped small farmers augment their income by enhancing productivity. IMAGE: In his......

Slowdown Is Neither Surprising Nor Inexplicable

'If tax-and-spend was expected to trickle down, it has failed; India's rural wages are stagnant, which has wrecked consumption growth,' points out Debashis Basu. Illustration: Dominic......

Meet 5 amazing innovators from rural India

There is no end to farmers' woes in India. Even as prices of farm products rise, the poor farmer only gets poorer with middlemen and traders making all the money. The only hope for millions of......

Walmart-owned PhonePe crosses 500 million lifetime registered users

Walmart-owned fintech firm PhonePe said it has crossed 500 million lifetime registered users on its platform. With this milestone, 1 in 3 Indians are now on PhonePe. The company said it is the......

Reliance-NVIDIA to build AI supercomputers in India

US technology company NVIDIA and billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries on Friday announced a partnership to build AI supercomputers in India. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Slum Soccer changing lives of these kids

Nagpur-based Slum Soccer is transforming the lives of slum children with the help of football, writes Geetanjali Krishna. Photograph: Kind courtesy www.slumsoccer.org Pankaj Mahajan owes his......

India's Sporting Legacy: Yes, We Can!

'I have grown up in an environment where the dominant narrative of Indian sporting achievement was -- We can't.''These achievers have fought hard, built on each other's body of work and knowledge,......