'For every gang, the financier is the kingpin'

'In a gang, the person who controls the finances is the most important key person.''Cut the finances of a gang and it will vanish.' IMAGE: Gangster Vikas Dubey after his arrest in Ujjain, July 9,......

Soaking up the monsoon spirit

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Army looks to hide its jawans better

For Indian soldiers their uniform has always been a troubling partner.The camouflage they wear while taking on terrorists or patrolling troubled borders doesn't let them breath properly. Also, the......

Digging Vadragate: The friends in law

Had DLF not given Vadra the Rs 50 crore advance, he would not have had the money to go on a land-buying spreeIn Bikaner, where Robert Vadra is said to have bought close to 800 acres between 2009......

Who Thinks For The Small Investor?

A quaint Indian idea called face value is putting high-performing companies out of the reach of retail investors, observes Debashis Basu. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Just one......

Lever, Nirma end 16-year-old row

After a bitter battle for 16 years, India's largest fast-moving consumer goods company, Hindustan Unilever, and its arch rival Nirma have reached an out-of-court settlement over the latter using a......

AV Birla Group eyes Lafarge's S-Africa biz

After West Asia and Bangladesh, it may well be the fast growing South African market that the $35 billion Aditya Birla Group will enter to globalise its cement operations further. According to......

Why Ambani brothers are locking horns again

The latest Ambani-sibling fight has now become a political battle. The fight for gas supplies between Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd and Anil's Reliance Natural Resources Ltd has also put......

'Don't make the industry a soft target'

'I have never had a foul experience in the industry.''There are rotten apples everywhere, in your family, relatives, friends circle, colleagues...''It's very vulnerable because of the glamour, but......

An irresistible Blue Umbrella

Nothing can make you smile like a fable. The setting is as idyllic as can be. A small village up in Himachal Pradesh, one of those Malgudi-type worlds where everyone knows everyone else, where......

'Schools should introduce sex education'

Yet another star kid takes the Bollywood plunge.   Sheena Shahabadi, daughter of veteran actress Sadhana Singh and producer Rajkumar Shahabadi, will be seen opposite Ruslaan Mumtaaz [son of......

Jab We Met's Tum Se Hi, unplugged!

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World's footballing family bids farewell to Bobby Robson

Bobby Robson was described as a "footballing colossus" as some of the sport's greatest names attended a memorial service for the former England manager on Monday. More than 1,000 people,......