Modi's 'redistribution' charge against Cong gets Pitroda's booster

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday seized on Congress leader Sam Pitroda's remarks on inheritance tax to step up the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's blistering attack on the issue of 'wealth......

BJP Invites World Parties To Witness Festival Of Democracy

IMAGE: An electoral officer demonstrates the functioning of an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) during a training programme for women polling......

'Rajiv Gandhi's legacy is quite inspirational'

'Some of his decisions were not so good, but his intentions were always guided by a deep national interest.' IMAGE: Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated 30 years ago today, May 21, 1991, during a......

'Modi won't accept defeat for himself'

'Modi has kept some loopholes in case they lose, saying it was not his election.''The fight will be Modi of 2014 vs Modi of 2019.''The BJP has realised that keeping the temple issue alive is more......

'We won't succeed until we computerise nada files'

In perhaps the most spirited speeches in the last three days, Dr Sam Pitroda talked about the challenges of innovation and its need. Rediff.com's Abhishek Mande sits in and takes notes.The last......

Pitroda stresses on knowledge infrastructure

Sam Pitroda, advisor toPrime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information, infrastructure and innovations, has emphasised on building infrastructure for knowledge to have an inclusive growth in......

'Cooperative education must for India, China, US'

If India, China and the United States are to prosper in a globalised economy, a joint, cooperative transformation of their higher education systems was imperative, believes B M Naik, former......

'You have to break all the rules'

The first of a series of excerpts from Nandan Nilekani's book Imagining India: A nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity,' was how one intimidated journalist chose to describe a......