How India Can Overtake China

India must integrate more with East Asia by getting into regional trade arrangements, lower its tariff walls, and improve the quality of its workforce, suggests T N Ninan. Illustration: Uttam......

China's new Covid cases at record high; Beijing resorts to community lockdown

Doggedly persisting with its much-criticised zero-Covid policy, China has slipped deeper into the coronavirus quagmire as it reported a record 31,444 infections on Thursday with many of its cities,......

Prospects For India's Youth: Cloudy, With High Chance Of Thunder And Lightning

The country's demographic dividend is dissipating, with seriously adverse consequences for young India, asserts Shankar Acharya, former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.......

Modi turns 72, leads a busy day as wishes pour in

Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on Saturday and marked his birthday by addressing four events covering fields as diverse as wildlife and the launch of logistics policy, as greetings poured......

Markets: 'India Will Be In A Brighter Position'

'India's fundamentals are a lot better (than those of other emerging market economies).' 'India will suffer (witness a fall in its stock market) what I call the second order effect.''And the second......

BSE Sensex: 10 biggest single-day falls

Indian stock indices witnessed a bloodbath on the day the Lok Sabha results are being announced, where incumbent BJP performed below par and seems it may fall short of exit poll predictions and the......

Mutual funds knock RBI door for hike in foreign investment limits

Several mutual funds (MFs) have recently approached the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as they renew efforts to increase their overseas investment limit. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com In......

HDFC Bank-led FPI selloff: The fifth-highest weekly exit since 2008

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sold shares worth Rs 20,170 crore ($2.4 billion) recently. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com This marked the fifth-highest weekly outflow from overseas......

The World Cup That Cheers

In cricket, we have something that we can share with our families, neighbours and indeed, the whole country. It is colour-blind, language-neutral, truly secular and transcends all regions, from......

IPL PIX: Jadeja's all-round show powers CSK to win

Images from the IPL 2024 match between Punjab Kings and Chennai Super Kings at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Sunday. Scorecard IMAGE: Ravindra Jadeja celebrates the wicket of Ashutosh......

DC Vs LSG: Who Bowled Best? Vote!

Kuldeep Yadav's spectacular return from injury proved to be the turning point for the Delhi Capitals who defeated the Lucknow Super Giants by six wickets in an IPL 2024 match on Friday, April 12,......

PIX: NZ trounce Afghanistan to continue winning start!

IMAGE: Lockie Ferguson, right, celebrates with team-mates after taking a wicket during the World Cup match against Afghanistan in Chennai. Photographs: Black Caps/X In less than 96 hours after......

What's so special about this Messi pic?

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Sebastian Ramirez/X (formerly Twitter) High school students in Argentina pieced together a massive mural of soccer superstar Leonel Messi out of thousands of recycled......