Atique Ahmed is one of the most feared dons in Uttar Pradesh today.There was another don who preceded Atique and had he survived, Atique wouldn't have been around today, recalls Sudhir Bisht.......
Eminent economist Raghuram Rajan has said free speech suffered a "grievous blow" in India with the resignations of Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian from the Ashoka University and that the......
A group of young first time Bihari voters who run 10 km every day to prepare for fauji recruitment rallies, tell Rediff.com's Archana Masih they need two things: Quality education and jobs. IMAGE:......
'Only on two occasions has the RSS thrown itself completely on the side of the BJP.''In 1977 in the wake of the Emergency. And in 2014 with Modi.''Now, I've been told that this is not going to......
Can we make high speed 4G Internet available at 10 cents per GB, and make all voice calls free of cost -- that too in a large and diverse country like India? Can we make high-quality but simple......
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has asked why SEBI has not yet got to the bottom of ownership of the four Mauritius-based funds who are said to have parked 90 per cent of their $6.9 billion in......
Sounding a note of caution, former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan has said that India is "dangerously close" to the Hindu rate of growth in view of subdued private sector investment, high......
The speed at which he led the central bank in different areas -- ranging from internal reorganisation to inflation fighting, stabilising the currency, taking on rogue corporations, cleaning up bank......
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday said the central bank will have to raise interest rates to tame inflation and the hikes need not be considered by politicians and bureaucrats as some......
The Indian economy has "some bright spots and a number of very dark stains" and the government should target its spending "carefully" so that there are no huge deficits, noted economist and former......