What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister......
'Alongside economic growth and the Asian century, stress has become an Asian caravan.''But stress doesn't arrive in one's country as invitation to taste exhaustion. It comes dressed as a......
Go-getter, ambitious, dynamic, workaholic are some of the adjectives that officials who worked closely with B V R Subrahmanyam use to describe him. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The......
In a momentous achievement for India's space programme, the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar south pole on Wednesday sparked jubilant reactions from around the world, including the......
IMAGE: Newly appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman takes charge at South Block, in New Delhi, on Friday. Photograph: Manvender Vashist/PTI Photo Breaching another largely male......
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.' Interview with......
India has asked the United States and the European Union to focus on the interests of poorer countries in global trade talks or risk seeing the current round of negotiations being a "suicide......
The finance minister is ready to present a second financial package. The Centre has ruled out a mega stimulus and will rely on targeted, incremental packages. Industry is clamouring for a bailout,......
KVIC is keen to build an international footprint and is hopeful about signing up B2B agreements with at least 40 countries, to which end it has even registered a GI (geographical indicator) tag in......
Had he not been a student, admirer and follower of Amartya Sen, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan feels it might have been a Padma Bhushan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The year was 1971.......
'What can I do for my India except make films that showcase its greatness to the world?' IMAGE: Mahima Chaudry sings I Love My India in Pardes. As India enters its 75th year of Independence on......
'I was in love and so I got married very early. Love makes you do crazy things. If I had not married then, my life would have been different.' 'Today, I see women balancing their careers......
'Most of the time I did not have anything to do in a film, even though I was in it throughout.'Saurabh Shukla, one of our finest character actors, shines yet again in his new film Jolly LLB 2. Did......
IMAGE: Vantika Agrawal helped India achieve its biggest glory in team chess by winning the first-ever Olympiad gold in Budapest recently. Photographs: FIDE/Michal Walusza Chess Olympiad......
IMAGE: Abhinav Bindra is optimistic about a strong performance by the Indian shooting contingent at the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for later July this year. Photograph: Abhinav Bindra/Instagram......