Donald Trump: From convicted felon to 2nd term Prez

From the time he left office after his loss in the 2020 presidential election to his nomination as the Republican candidate in the 2024 race, Trump continued to dominate the American news cycle and......

Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Time To Shut Down Coaching Classes?

The coaching-tuition-profiteering model built on the back of a broken education system is a scandal and an abomination, and must go, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel......

How Dropped Candidates Keep Busy

Cricket climate change to medical practice, dropped candidates have their non-political life sorted. IMAGE: Gautam Gambhir, the former Kolkata Knight Riders skipper, is back as the team's mentor.......

Bulking up: Mutual fund managers favour select banks and auto stocks

HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank remained among the top mutual fund (MF) buys for the second consecutive month in September. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com MFs deployed a net of......

What Star Rating Does Your AC Have?

Since 2008, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency is running a star rating programme, under which electric equipment are rated according to their efficiency. This in turn helps the consumers save......

Stake sales by promoters, private equity investors 2.2 times of 2022

Stake sales by promoters and private equity/venture capital (PE/VC) investors this year are already exceeding twice those of last year. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com So far this calendar......

Serving small entrepreneurs: A 5-star business idea

Five Star Business Finance is in the business of providing loans to MSME entrepreneurs. Gireesh Babu finds out more about the company that plans to grow to 3,000 crore by 2020.......

Interested in stocks? Watch Scam 1992!

The insatiable greed for money and power is too large, too repugnant to thwart.And no one epitomised that better than Harshad Mehta, notes Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: Pratik Gandhi is stunning as Harshad......

Should Deepika do this role? VOTE!

Ever since Liane Moriarty’s bestseller, Big Little Lies, made its television debut on HBO, the world is going gaga over its leading ladies and their powerhouse performances.  ......

Shah Rukh in trouble! I-T dept attaches Alibag farmhouse

The star allegedly applied to purchase the agricultural land for farming but constructed a farmhouse there for personal use instead. IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan with Farah Khan at his farmhouse in......

Which actress earns more than SRK, Aamir, Amitabh?

No, it's not Anushka Sharma! The Forbes Celebrity India 2018 list of the highest earning celebrities is out, and it's got so many surprises! For starters, the list has a lady in the top five for......

Beckham to announce franchise decision in Miami

Former England soccer captain David Beckham and Major League Soccer will announce on Wednesday that he is exercising his option to become the owner of a team in Miami, sources close to the......

Beckham plans to make Miami team a global soccer franchise

Former England football captain David Beckham announced on Wednesday that he is exercising his option to become the owner of a Major League Soccer team in Miami. "This is a dream," the......