Why Great Men Worship Light of Asia

Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V......

How can you measure democracy?

There is a vocal constituency of educated, well-to-do, articulate Indian elites who would rather go with the idea that too much democracy is a liability.That India needs a spell of benevolent......

MHA nixes list of non-Swadeshi items for CAPF canteens

Stating that action is being initiated for the 'lapse', Union home ministry officials said there were discrepancies in the list issued by the Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar (central police welfare......

Climbers recover 7 bodies near Nanda Devi peak

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police on Sunday recovered seven bodies believed to be that of foreign mountaineers who had gone missing on way to the Nanda Devi East peak in Uttarakhand last month, an......

Budget Impact: 10 Largecaps To Look Out For

10 largecaps stocks which stand to gain from the Budget. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The FY26 Union Budget marked a shift in the government stance towards consumption from its earlier......

Havells, Polycab flip the switch on high-voltage growth potential

The July-September quarter (Q2) results for 2024-25 (FY25) from the largest listed consumer electrical solutions companies, Havells India and Polycab India, followed similar trends, demonstrating......

Near-term outperformance likely to sustain for Polycab and Havells

Polycab India and Havells India are the two businesses that work in more or less in the same space and both have outperformed the market in the last 12 months. Photograph: Courtesy, Polycab......

Robust summer demand across fans, ACs to drive gains for Havells India

Electrical Consumer Durable (ECD) companies like Havells India have seen strong Q4FY24 sales and continuing seasonal demand across fans, air coolers, and room air conditioners (RAC) in addition to......

On this Day: Birth of a chess legend; India lift Asia Cup

  IMAGE: Garry Kasparov during the World Chess Championships against Vladimir Kramnik at the Riverside Studios, London, in October-November 2000. Photograph: Andrew Redington/ALLSPORT/Getty......