Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Villages To Safeguard India's Borders

In underlining the role of border villages as custodians of India's frontiers, New Delhi is following China's example in Tibet. IMAGE: Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi presents a memento to......

Bilateral engagement can restore peace at India-China border: Modi

Asserting that stable and peaceful relations between India and China are important for the entire region and the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed hope that through positive and......

What Reforms Can We Expect, Modiji?

Assuming we still have a Modi-led majority government after May 2024, there is no guarantee that reforms will move at anything more than a snail's pace, though we must be thankful even for that,......

Net neutrality and the privacy debate

Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The average citizen who looks at the Internet as......

'By 2025, we will be corruption free'

'I feel now we have a leader who is non-corruptible.''But he needs time as corruption is deep-rooted in our society, and people have no shame about being corrupt.''It will take at least 7 years to......

'You can't stand on a podium and preach to India'

'India is no longer the India of the '70s and the '80s.''It's a large country with the fastest growing economy.''In working with India, you just can't go and humiliate the nation publicly.' USIBC......

As the dragon whimpers, India stands to gain

Internet, tech, infra, realty in India might gain India’s services sector, including Internet business, retail, real estate, telecom and information technology, is unlikely to be directly......

Singapore in the driving seat as it negotiates new F1 deal

'This is one of the top ranked Grand Prix ... and one of the markets that the key sponsors of F1 are most interested in.' Singapore race is one of the most popular, taking place at night on a......

Silence on match-fixing probe puts Singapore at risk

Singapore is working with European authorities investigating the fixing of football matches on a global scale but its silence on any action being taken against local suspects risks damaging the......