A maniac with a gun, a life lost in vain

Robbed of prey as people fled, Omar Perez came marching back and shot bullet after bullet into Prudhvi Raj Kandepi's head, thus ensuring that a man he had never met before, known nothing of, would......

Indian-origin teen held for plotting murder of New York cops

An Indian-origin teen has been charged with illegally purchasing a gun with a fake ID and allegedly plotting the murder of New York police officers, authorities have said. Ranbir Singh Shergill,......

'Arthur could tell Hrithik, Kajol they made him feel old...'

'...because he had interviewed their grandparents in their heyday.' P Rajendran looks back on the 11 plus years he worked with Arthur J Pais, the India Abroad and Rediff.com editor, who passed into......

Served with love: Pakistan food chain offers free meals to Indians

The owner of an American restaurant chain in Pakistan is offering free meals to any Indian visiting the country on a short-term visa, in a novel reaction to reports that a Pakistani family was......

India's growing coffee culture

Indian coffee shops market over the next four-five years will grow between 6 and 18 per cent CAGR, all due to the growing coffee culture among the youth, increasing urbanisation, rising disposable......

Top mid-cap stocks to watch out for

It is advisable to stick to mid-caps with sustainable financial metrics rather than those offering the promise of faster growth.Krishna Kant, Ram Prasad Sahu, Hamsini Karthik, Ujjval Jauhari and......

South and West are lovin' it but McDonald's faces test in North and East

McDonald’s problems couldn’t have surfaced at a worse time. Cut-throat competition, rapid expansion and a slowdown in consumer spending in the wake of demonetisation have seriously......

Meet the big gainers from Modi's demonetisation diktat

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, head of Paytm, says they'd achieve their 500-million user target by 2018, two years before the earlier aim. The past 24 hours have done for digital wallets what 10 years of......

Gogol on my mind

I don't have a pet name, pocket name, nickname, house name, daak naam. In that sense, I am no Gogol and have had to suffer from none of Gogol's name trauma. All I have had is my one and only name,......