As Prabhakaran was leaving his house, Rajiv Gandhi called his son Rahul and asked him to fetch his (Gandhi's) bulletproof jacket.He put the jacket on Prabhakaran's back and remarked with his usual......
Nitish Kumar wants to assure the BJP that he will continue to be a part of the NDA.But he also wants to secure a larger number of seats for his party in the 2025 assembly elections in Bihar.......
Indian-American Republican leader Nikky Haley has endorsed her former boss Donald Trump as the party's candidate for the presidential election, delivering the message of unity after their bitter......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that a solution to the Ukraine conflict is not possible on the battlefield and peace efforts do not succeed in the......
The climate for 'doing business' remains forbidding, taxtortion is still rife, corruption at state and district levels has increased, oil prices remain extortive with high taxation, and the......
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.' Interview with......
A peek into the life of a public-sector banker who did well professionally, but paid a price for it, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A column on what......
'For our traditional membership base, it would be an access to disruptive ideas,' FICCI President Subhrakant Panda tells Asit Mishra/Business Standard. FICCI President Subhrakant Panda.......
'The CM kept his cool, but his adviser was liberal with filthy language.'Tamal Bandyopadhyay recreates the diary of a general manager in a public sector bank, providing a glimpse of how they......
‘Gift-giving’ – from free dinners and drug samples to promotional merchandise – seems to be driving drugmakers’ marketing – a marketing prescription deeply......
'Garm Hava understands that the scorching, hate-filled, doubt-filled affair between Hindus and Muslims is our national love affair.' Sreehari Nair revisits M S Sathyu's classic film, featuring the......
'I want to do some things, like take my mum on the Orient Express to Venice.' IMAGE: Saif Ali Khan with wife Kareena Kapoor. Photograph: Kind courtesy Kareena Kapoor/Instagram As Saif Ali Khan......
'I wanted people to know that women across all ages have an exciting life.' IMAGE: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana with Divya Dutta and Sakshi Tanwar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Tahira Kashyap......
'Life had its own plans and now I have learnt to go with the flow.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Manushi Chhillar/Instagram In 2017, Manushi Chhillar surprised everyone by winning not only the Miss......
'Every actor's journey is unique.''It's beautiful but also terrifying because you have to carve your own path.''So if there's somebody to talk it through, it's nice.' IMAGE: Rasika Dugal and Mukul......
The Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony will start at 11pm IST on Friday, July 26, 2024. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the opening ceremony will not be held in a stadium.......
IMAGE: Pakistan have had a disastrous tournament thus far with just 2 wins from 6 matches and they have to win big against Bangladesh on Tuesday to keep themselves in contention for a semis spot.......
'Let me inform you that from the next ICC FTP calendar, IPL will have an official two-and-a-half month window so that all the top international cricketers can participate. We have had discussions......
'The players all appreciate -- we all appreciate -- the fact that despite the pandemic and the restrictions, because of all of this protocol that has been put in place, the IPL season is still......
IMAGE: Gundappa Viswanath with Sourav Ganguly. Photograph: BCCI The autobiography of former captain Gundappa Viswanath, one of the finest batters in the history of Indian cricket and hailed as an......