He was colourful. He was dramatic. He was The Master of His Craft. There never will be an editor as versatile as Pritish Nandy, notes Nikhil Lakshman. IMAGE: Pritish Nandy, Editor Extraordinaire,......
At Srinagar's famed Lal Chowk, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf meets a computer engineer who drives an auto for a living and discovers that Kashmiris are more interested in finding jobs than......
'Women were the victims because it was a ladies night.''Whichever club you go to in Mumbai it has the same entry, same exit points except for very few which is very rare.' The lounges,......
With Muslim women groups protesting in favour of their demand, seeking entry into the inner sanctum of Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai, trustee of the Dargah, Rizwan Merchant on Thursday said that their......
'We often celebrate scholastic excellence while ignoring the majority of students who aren't there yet,' Pratham CEO Rukmini Banerji tells Geetanjali Krishna.'It's time we celebrated the......
The Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) Hyderabad based Lanco Group, is drawing up plans to enter the power distribution and trading sector.Lanco will in the course of the next two weeks apply formally......
Malaysia's Genting Group has entered the Indian power sector by picking up a 30 per cent stake in Lanco Kondapalli Power by buying out US company NRG Energy for $27.5 million.The total......
Global regulators imposed penalties totalling $3.4 billion on five major banks, including UBS, HSBC and Citigroup on Wednesday for failing to stop their traders from trying to manipulate foreign......
'If there is any industry that is unfit for modern corporate form it is the diamond trade.''But no one was asking the right questions.''The music was playing and so the game was on,' says S......
The Railway Budget 2009-10 presented in the Lok Sabha on Friday proposes several welfare measures for its 14 lakh (1.4 million) employees. Railways ministerMamata Banerjee announced the proposal to......
Hidden Figures tells us a genuinely inspirational story in obvious fashion, and is buoyed by the performances all around, writes Raja Sen. The year is 1961, and nervous mathematician Katherine......
The Intern is an easy, breezy office space confection that makes for a lighthearted viewing, feels Sukanya Verma. As I sat down to write about Nancy Meyers' The Intern, I thought how if I......
The film opens with a layered, self-referencing, almost-nonsensical plot about a major heist, a seemingly impossible casino boost in Las Vegas. It's a contrived, bizarrely complicated sequence of......
Let's start off with the definitions. Bheja Fry n. 1. Chopped and scrambled cow/goat-brain, served piping hot. Goes well with most kinds of breads. Not for the queasy. 2. A first-time director's......
And coming up after the break, the eight-time Filmfare Award winning actor will ask Mrs Mishra to sing.' Yawn. Ladies and gents, welcome to the silly superstar season in televisionland, with three......
IMAGE: West Ham United's Jarrod Bowen celebrates with Declan Rice on scoring their third goal against KRC Genk at London Stadium in London on Thursday. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images......
China's 'snow princess' Gu triumphs in halfpipe, bags second gold IMAGE: Gu Ailing Eileen of China in action during the Freestyle Skiing Women's Freeski Halfpipe Final Run 2 at Genting Snow Park,......
Flawless Fillon Maillet wins pursuit gold for France IMAGE: Quentin Fillon Maillet of France celebrates winning the gold medal. Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters Quentin Fillon Maillet of......
IMAGE: PAOK's Andrija Zivkovic celebrates scoring their second goal with teammates during their Champions League Third Qualifying Round at Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece on......
IMAGE: Joe Willock celebrates after scoring Arsenal's second goal during the UEFA Europa League Group B stage match against Dundalk FC at Emirates Stadium, in London, on Thursday. Photograph: Mike......