Bommai's election-year budget targets temples, women and youth

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in poll-bound Karnataka on Friday sought to woo farmers, women and younger generation with a slew of welfare measures in its last budget in the current term, also......

First Manmohan Singh scholars to join Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is all set to welcome the first three outstanding Indian students who have been awarded scholarships named after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who graduated from the......

Indian docs win; UK govt agrees to withdraw clause

Indian doctors have won a significant legal battle in the high court of Justice as the British government agreed to withdraw a "discriminatory clause", which would have excluded them from the job......

The blunder of the Pandit

Fifty years ago, India's first prime minister passed into the ages. On his death anniversary, May 27, Lieutenant General Eric A Vas (retd) commenced rediff.com's series to......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

Coffee, politics, and markets

It was perhaps just a decade ago when there were twin concerns of the Indian electorate, and the international investor: government misgovernance and corporate misbehaviour. Today, there is only......

Brevity is the key to good ads

Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Union Budget for 2007-08 in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.Has he made life easier for those related to the advertising industry? What does it mean for the......

'India's growth may go on for 25 years'

Kundapur Vaman Kamath, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Bank Limited, has been primarily responsible for the bank's phenomenal growth through the introduction of new systems,......