Beware The American Deep State

Do not underestimate the ingenuity of the Deep State in America to have its way. Keeping the guard down will be a catastrophic mistake on the part of the Delhi establishment.We could get hit when......

Chidambaram requests Justice Hegde to stay on

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday requested Justice N Santosh Hegde, who resigned from the post of Lokayukta of Karnataka on June 23 over the manner in which the government had treated some of......

Karnataka HC upholds govt ban on PFI with immediate effect

The high court of Karnataka has upheld the recent ban imposed on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and stated that the Centre has the power under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 to......

K'tka: Export ban has no effect on illegal mining

The ongoing probe into illegal mining in Karnataka have revealed some startling facts, including the fact that transportation of ore has gone up two fold after a ban was imposed. Karnataka......

The year in four faces

Urjit Patel, Binny Bansal, Nirav Modi and Rahul Gandhi personify the big trends that defined 2018. Well, almost... says Shailesh Dobhal. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Two thousand eighteen......

Rajat Gupta, freed from jail but confined to home

Rajat Gupta was freed from Federal Medical Centre Devens, a federal correctional facility in Ayer, Massachusetts, on January 5. Image: Rajat Gupta started serving a two-year prison term from......

Why the FRDI Bill must be JUNKED!

Why do we need a cure here for peculiarly Western diseases when we don’t have those diseases, and which the West itself is not trying to cure, asks Debashis Basu. Illustration: Uttam......

Galleon case: Roomy Khan jailed in US

An India-born woman, a former Intel executive and a key government informant in hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and former Goldman director Rajat Gupta cases, has been sentenced to one year in......

What Sridevi meant to 13-year-old me

Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains why the Bollywood legend will remain an eternal part of his life. IMAGE: Sridevi in Himmatwala. 1985. I was 13 years old. When I stepped out to play cricket one......

Akshay's Jumbo meal!

What's it about Dumbo, Horton or even Heffalumps that makes them so disarming, cute and cuddly at once? Big ears? Bouncy belly? Wide, innocent eyes? Quite contrary to their enormous size, elephants......

FIFA scandal: US law may struggle to reach all defendants

FBI agents carry boxes from the headquarters of CONCACAF after it was raided. Photograph: Joe Skipper/Getty Images US prosecutors may find it difficult to get a number of the people they have......

New Zealand vs Zimbabwe, statistical highlights

New Zealand vs Zimbabwe: Scorecard | Match report | Images - Daryl Harper was officiating in his 100th ODI. His firstODI was the NZ v SA match in the Benson & Hedges World Series at Perth on......