Biden names longtime aide as White House chief of staff

United States President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the appointment of Ron Klain, his longtime aide, as White House Chief of Staff. IMAGE: Ron Klain and President-elect Joe Biden.......

Students protest cop thrashing; Delhi top cop preaches on Twitter

Agitated over the alleged assault on student protesters by police, students from various universities across Delhi on Tuesday staged a protest outside police headquarters in New Delhi blocking the......

Trump picks Jeff Sessions for AG, Pompeo for CIA chief

United States President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced key Cabinet picks with the influential post of National Security Adviser going to his trusted military adviser Lt Gen Michael......

Indian-American may become judge in US Supreme Court

Sri Srinivasan (winner of the India Abroad Person of the Year 2013) could become the first Indian-American to be on the bench of the US Supreme Court after conservative icon Justice Antonin......

Hinduja squabble: Lessons for business khandaans

'India is home to the third-largest number of family-owned businesses in the world.' 'While everyone pays lip service to succession planning being entrenched in the functional DNA of family-owned......

Doctors, lawyers and academics on strike

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com I stare stupefied at headlines like these: One from last June said, 800,000......

Economics Nobel for India-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, M Kremer

The trio introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty IMAGE: The portraits of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kreme, who......

Mumbai's Ponda on US revenue service council

Mumbai-born, Tampa Bay, Florida-raised Ameek Ashok Ponda, a tax partner of the Boston-based Sullivan & Worcester LLP law firm and a member of its management committee, has been appointed to the......

Guilty Minds Review

Guilty Minds has too much going on to wolf down it all in one big binge watch session, notes Sukanya Verma. A pair of yin and yang Delhi lawyers clash and collaborate to seek justice for their......

The Oscar winner who picked Irrfan Khan

16 years after The Warrior, Asif Kapadia and Irrfan Khan will team up once again for the cinematic adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke.Monali Sarkar reports. Asif Kapadia takes us through the......

How Facebook came to be

Aseem Chabbra review The Social Network.An American friend told me this story. Another friend of his came home one night, drunk after a lot of hard partying, and started viewing profiles of blond......

Desi films all set to rock New York

With two directors -- Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta -- whose films have been nominated for Oscars, and with the veteran actress Shabana Azmi and the relatively younger Preity Zinta joining the......

Readers on whether Ganguly should play

Vikram Shah: Can someone from your organisation lead a discussion on the validity of this penalty, please?Let us not talk about Saurav's form as a batsman as that is not the issue here.Do the rules......