The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

How can India rid itself of malaria?

India has the fourth highest number of malaria cases in the world. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   Malaria, according to a CBS News report, is estimated to have killed 50 billion......

Fortune names its World's 50 Greatest Leaders

The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and other United States schools, Tim Cook, India’s Indira Jaising and Mukesh Ambani. The names mentioned above have nothing in common… until......

Indian-origin student shot dead in US during robbery attempt

An Indian-origin student was shot dead during an attempted armed robbery in the United States, becoming one of the latest victims of gun violence in the country. Another Indian was injured in the......

How did Nirav Modi pull off PNB fraud?

Theoretically, Modi, who understood corporate finance, committed no crime by raising debt to fund a growing business.In fact, he did a tidy job of it, but his operation started to see the ground......

How Indian banks are getting ready to avoid fraud, enhance security

Experts say the recent Rs 14,000-crore PNB fraud could have been avoided had there been an integration of PNB's CBS with its SWIFT system Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The banking sector is......

India Inc will find it difficult to raise loans above Rs 250 cr from PSBs

Public sector banks have decided to improve their risk-management systems Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Public sector banks (PSBs) will discourage multiple banking arrangements for......

PNB fraud: Most PSBs have kept SWIFT outside core banking

It is up to the bank management to decide which application gets to interact with the CBS The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) is just one of the processes that......

Janet incident delays Grammies

The Grammies won't be telecast live this year. Thanks to Justin Timberlake ripping off Janet Jackson's bustier at last Sunday's Super Bowl, revealing the pop singer's right breast,CBS announced......

US won't send officials to Beijing Winter Olympics

'The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC's ongoing genocide and crimes against......

Golf, sponsors ponder Woods' absence from sport

Even the prospect of a golf landscape temporarily minus Tiger Woods is not one PGA Tour officials, advertisers and sponsors care to ponder as speculation swirls around the popular athlete's private......

Newsmaker Johnson edges out Woods in 2002

Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam were the dominant figures in global golf during 2002 but it is doubtful if either has managed to generate more column inches of publicity than Augusta National......