Is The Congress Doomed?

The Congress needs to reorganise itself at the grassroots, infuse younger blood, and have more boots on the ground.Just offering freebies is not the answer anymore, argues Ramesh Menon. IMAGE: A......

Aristotle Would Have Envied Ivan

Ivan Menezes and Arvind Subramanian -- whose birthdays were separated by a month and 3 days in 1959 -- became close friends attending the economics course at St Stephen's.Ivan went on to be a......

Freebies: Nothing Called A Free Lunch

To help the country emerge as a true welfare State, political parties must put the country's interests first before strategising to win elections and short-term goals, argues Ramesh Menon.......

PM made light of people's suffering: Cong hits back

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress on Monday accused him of mocking the misery of people who lost their lives and livelihood in the COVID-19 pandemic and dismissed his......

Largecap, midcap cutoff surges over 26% in latest Amfi classification

The rally in the equity markets in the second half of 2023 has led to a sharp surge in the cutoff for stocks to qualify as largecaps and midcaps. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com On the......

90% of Nifty 500 stocks trade above 200-DMA; time to be selective: Analysts

Nearly 90 per cent of the stocks comprising the National Stock Exchange Nifty 500 Index and 49 of the 50 stocks that make up the Nifty50 are trading above their respective 200-day moving averages......

Diageo's India-born CEO Ivan Menezes passes away

Ivan Manuel Menezes, the India-born CEO of the world's biggest spirits company Diageo, died on Wednesday, days after being hospitalised for treatment of stomach ulcer. Photograph: Reuters Menezes,......

How Reliance Retail plans to become 'atmanirbhar'

A few days ago, Reliance Retail surprised the market by acquiring the Campa brand from Delhi-based Pure Drinks Ltd for Rs 22 crore. Photograph: PTI Photo A successful cola brand in the eighties,......

'Ours is called the land of Kama Sutra, but what happened?'

'Where did that go?' IMAGE: Priyanka Bose and Mohit Agarwal in Kanu Behl's Agra. Kanu Behl's first film as director, Titli, a gritty family drama, premiered at Cannes in 2014 and was released in......

PIX: India humiliated as Sri Lanka clinch series

IMAGES from the 3rd ODI played between Sri Lanka and India, in Colombo, on Wednesday. SCORECARD IMAGE: Sri Lanka won the three-match series 2-0 after the first match ended in a......

Mom and dad were literally crying: Emotional Tilak Varma

IMAGE: Tilak Varma was handed his maiden T20I call-up for the upcoming Windies tour. Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters It was in the deep hours of Wednesday night Namboori Tilak Varma shared the......

Indian swimmer conquers Sea of Galilee with World mark

Aryan Singh Dadiala started his swim at 5.18 am on Friday, when it was pitch dark and extremely cold, and finished the challenging course at 11:33 am, equalling the existing World record of the......

Nikhat Zareen boxing her way to glory one title at a time

IMAGE: Nikhat Zareen became only the second boxer after Mary Kom to win two World titles. Photograph: Kind courtesy BFI MC Mary Kom had once angrily asked, "Who Nikhat Zareen?" Having......