'We Are Lucky To Have Modi'

'We don't have to go abroad for anything.''Anyone who thinks we have a lot to learn from the US needs to have his head examined.''We are in a new era.' IMAGE: President Droupadi Murmu and Prime......

These Scientists Shaped India

I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims.We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing......

'They don't see sunlight for years'

'Is it not deplorable that even after 75 years of Independence, there are people in our society who have been denied freedom?' IMAGE: The rescued people. All photographs: Kind courtesy Mahaboob......

3rd minister quits Yogi cabinet, 10th MLA to leave BJP in UP

OBC leader Dharam Singh Saini on Thursday became the third minister to resign from the Uttar Pradesh cabinet this week, giving yet another jolt to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the run-up to......

PSU banks had worst time in Dr Singh-Rajan tenure: FM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the Indian public sector banks had the "worst phase" under the combination of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former RBI governor Raghuram......

Modi now has the world's finest economic team: Bhagwati

The days of anti-reform, anti-growth advisers that undermined our economy in the UPA-II years will now be strictly behind us: Bhagwati Globally acclaimed economist Jagdish Bhagwati hailed the......

Remembering Ashok Mitra

Dr Mitra called the Pandara Road crowd a 'cheerful collective of young dreamers,' united in its 'love and pride for the newly Independent India,' despite 'sharp disparities in background,......

'Not a shining India, but there is a feel-good factor'

'Life will not improve overnight; it will happen in a gradual manner.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com With the Indian rupee sliding against the US dollar, it has become one of Asia's worst......

Indian Paralympics team felicitated by High Commissioner

The 33-member Indian team which participated in the ongoing Paralympic Games was felicitated by the country's High Commissioner to the UK -- Dr Jaimini Bhagwati -- at the India House in London.......