'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Writer Amitav Ghosh spent many of those strange, mind-numbing COVID-19 days of......
United States President Donald Trump has officially accepted the re-nomination of the Republican Party as its presidential candidate for the November elections, telling his fellow Americans that at......
'For a country that has successfully maintained its democracy for more than seventy years now, this sudden storm of hate is highly surprising.''My worry is that if the debate continues like that......
A five-storey 'weak' building collapsed in northwest Delhi on Wednesday, killing four children and two women, three weeks after the 20-year-old structure was inspected by a municipal team following......
Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi, who retired only a week ago as Civil Aviation Secretary, was on Tuesday appointed as an Election Commissioner.President Pranab Mukherjee made the appointment filling a......
The 39-year-old, the fifth child of an illiterate labourer couple and only the second of their eight to be educated, now helms various ventures that bring in a turnover of between Rs 75 crore and......
The concerns surrounding drug manufacturing practices in India appear to have reached foreign shores, beyond the international regulators’ domain. Ranbaxy whistle-blower Dinesh Thakur,......
In a first, an Indian state university-- University of Pune -- which went international two years ago, may have to relocate or rework its international strategy. Following a relatively muted......
Dr Alan G Merten, President of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, since 1996, was among the business faculty at the University of Michigan in the late 1970s that interviewed and hired C......
India has just about 5,500 ITIs and 1,745 polytechnics, compared to 500,000 similar institutes in China, writes Arvind Singhal. Education is finally getting its due attention at leadership levels......
The Archies is an evergreen thought passed on from generation to generation. But Sukanya Verma wishes it had some of the comic's tee-hee humour and hyuk hyuk too. Long before there was cable TV,......
On Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 91st birth anniversary on September 30, we bring back excerpts from a Rediff interview with the brilliant filmmaker, just after the release of his last film, Jhoot Bole......
'In these competitions you have to show desire for victory' IMAGE: Cameroon’s Vincent Aboubakar, left, celebrates after scoring their team's second goal. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty......