...Kids, jobs, emigration, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com "Aren't you kids going to have children?" I asked one of my nieces who had come for a one-week......
India needs to impose a 2 percent tax on net wealth exceeding Rs 10 crore and a 33 percent inheritance tax to deal with the problem of rising inequality in the country, a new research paper......
Former Indian Administrative Service officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu were on Thursday appointed as election commissioners, ahead of the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls.......
The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that was linked to caste, is never raised in Indian debates and the disapproval of drink is almost universal, notes......
A wealthy Indian-origin couple and their teenage daughter were found dead in their USD 5 million mansion in the US state of Massachusetts in an apparent domestic violence incident, according to......
There are reports that the government will soon cut income taxes by about Rs 50,000 crore to boost consumption.Prime Minister Modi, I suggest that, instead, you distribute about one lakh crore......
While other backward classes had a share of 9 per cent, there were no scheduled tribe billionaires. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Caste shows, even in riches. More than 85 per cent......
The top-notch faculty at Crotonville, including Noel Tichy, Ram Charan, Vijay Govindarajan, along with GE's top leaders Jack Welch, Gary Reiner, Bill Conaty, Jeffrey Immelt and Susan Peters,......
The latest flashpoint in West Asia has derailed India’s preliminary plans to resume crude oil imports from Iran, officials said. Photograph: Raheb Homavandi/Reuters In January, officials of......
Wealth, which can broadly be a measure of assets held as opposed to income earned, is unequally distributed. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com India's richest people now have a larger......
Writer, director, actor, singer, producer, Farhan Akhtar dons many, MANY hats and makes the world, well Hindi cinema for sure, a cooler place. Three cheers to his multiple talents with Sukanya......
IMAGE: Jonathan David Martin poses with the tiger puppet at the Broadway opening night of Life Of Pi at The Schoenfeld Theatre, in New York, March 30, 2023. Photograph: Michael Loccisano/Getty......
'Rani made it very clear when she signed the film that she would shoot only during her daughter's summer vacation so as not to disturb her role as a real life mother.' IMAGE: Rani Mukerji in Mrs......