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The Dangerous Ploy of Poll Freebies

The culture of freebies burdens coming generations with the huge bill for the flagrant abuse of power by preceding governments, points out Virendra Kapoor. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Coming soon: BBC News in Indian languages

The BBC is all set to produce daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi (in addition to the existing Hindi, Tamil and Urdu), Jim Egan, CEO, BBC Global News, tells Vanita......

'I want to give media back to India'

Times Now, the English news channel Arnab Goswami headed until recently, had an average daily reach of 1.7 million people.That may be a fraction of the 48 million Aaj Tak reached every day in 2016,......

Large dams lead to global warming too

Latest scientific estimates show that large dams in India are responsible for about a fifth of the India's total global warming impact. The estimates also reveal that Indian dams are the largest......

Bush, Kerry vote, and pray

President George W Bush cast his vote, at 8.30 EDT, at a fire station in Crawford, Texas, and is now en route to Washington, DC, where he will now mark time, monitoring the results as they begin......

BIG headache awaits banks this September

'We do not know when we will get to the business-as-usual mode.''Many borrowers may not be able to pay up.''The incidence of cheque bouncing has doubled or even trebled, some lenders say,' says......

Alpha Zero and the future of artificial intelligence

Prime Minister Modi inaugurates the Wadhwani Centre for Artificial Intelligence at IIT-Bombay today.'One problem with machine learning is that extensive human inputs are required.''This is both an......

Can Apple Pay repeat its US success story in India?

iPhone, which accounts for just 3% of sales in India's 100 million-plus annual smartphone market, plans to partner an existing player. Apple has become the latest global technology behemoth to......

Soon, your movie watching experience could be cheaper

And the reason has everything to do with box office collections, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. IMAGE: Mumbai's Aurora theatre looks festive during the release of Rajinikanth's Kabali. Photograph:......

E-comm biggies to offer fewer discounts this Diwali, here are reasons

While e-commerce players were in the initial days eyeing higher traffic through deep discounts, they have now started to think about profit margins for long-term growth. E-commerce has not just......

Love your music? Read this about Spotify

About 18 months after its entry in India, a Spotify listener spent an average of 97 minutes on the app, almost ten times more than any other streaming music brand, reports Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.......

Warner Bros eyes India, and Rajnikant!

To a casual eye, Warner Bros' foray into film production in Indiamay look like a small step. After all, this is the studio that makes the Harry Potter movies -- each of those blockbusters......

WC preview: Finally, England and Croatia have chance to banish semi blues

IMAGE: England's Danny Welbeck holds off Gary Cahill during a training session. Photograph: Alex Morton/Getty Images Two nations who have been waiting years to put right the bitter memories of......

Prem Panicker: If I was Dhoni, I'd bowl first at the MCG vs Bangladesh

The best eight teams in World Cup 2015 are ready to face off for the cricketing world’s top honours. Who will scale the summit on March 29 at the MCG? - Predict your FOUR World Cup......

The rich and the successful

The Economic Timesrecently calculated the moolah-run rate (MRR) for batsmen and the moolah-scalp rate (MSR) for bowlers playing in the DLF IPL. So if Ricky Ponting's pay cheque is $114286 (4/14 of......

Prem's post

I am disappointed. Very.When the final tally came in, turns out you guys sent a total of 567 emails during the course of the fourth ODI at Ahmedabad.That is less than the number of balls bowled in......

Creating Champions

Reckon India does not have what it takes to produce a Wimbledon winner, an Olympic champion?The Brandenton, Florida-based IMG Academies, arguably the best-known multi-sport training facility in the......

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