From small restaurants to mighty software companies, it is businesses, not the government, that create jobs.Yet, in a cruel irony, they have to fight extortive and brutal State power every step of......
A French court recently sentenced Mohammad Niaz Abdul Rasheed, an Indian national, to eight years in prison for criminal conspiracy. Rasheed, a resident of Trichy in Tamil Nadu, is a mechanical......
Shailesh Gandhi, convener of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, who was appointed a Central Information Commissioner in 2008, had an hour-long conversation with rediff.com......
Indian society may be more advanced than we think it is, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com As soon as I saw the title of the research paper 'How do markets......
Time-automated trading through algos can massively amplify irrationality, leading to more volatility and still more irrationality in an ever-spiralling loop, warns Debashis Basu. IMAGE: Kindly......
Due to ineffectiveness of interoperability, brokers had to compulsorily square off their clients trading position, causing significant losses to investors. The Securities and Exchange Board of......
Coffee baron V G Siddhartha, who has been missing since Monday, was in the news recently for selling his stake in IT firm Mindtree to engineering major Larsen and Toubro. At the same time, US......
A glance back at some important ups and down India Inc faced in 2018. Year End Specials Kindly click on the image below to view the relevant story. #1 How PNB scam effected consumer......
As the curtain comes down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events. Part 1: A for Alia Bhatt Part 2: Jacqueline's Con Call Part 3: Malaika-Arjun's 'M'......
IMAGE: Back in 2019, he was cheering for Kiwis from a Bengaluru pub and he’s now part of the World Cup squad. Photograph: BlackCaps/X Rachin Ravindra found the night of July 14, 2019,......
Beleaguered Lalit Modi on Monday found support from Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) owner Vijay Mallya, who credited the IPL commissioner for the cash-awash Twenty20 league's mind-boggling......
Reader Raveendra Guntur sent us this photograph. 'I had a opportunity to meet Javagal Srinath at Bangalore Airport on August 5, 2009. He travelled in the same plane as me till Dubai on his way to......
Indian drinks and aviation tycoon Vijay Mallya plans to gather his Formula One, cricket and soccer interests into one company and float it on the Mumbai stock exchange early next year. "So many......