Only 28.5% Youth Are Digitally Literate

Goa has the highest number of people who could 'search the Internet for information and can send or receive e-mails and can perform online banking transactions'. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has......

How Dr Manmohan Singh became India's 'reforms' man

He drew the roadmap of India's economic reform, unshackled it from the licence raj and pulled it back from the brink when even its gold reserve was pledged. IMAGE: Former Prime Minister Dr......

Where Would India Be Without Dr Singh?

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......

How Shibu Soren's close aide became BJP's asset

Popularly known as the 'Kolhan Tiger', Champai Soren's journey from a prominent Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader to a key asset for the Bharatiya Janata Party is marked by several twists and turns.......

A quiet, studious, boy none of his school teachers remember

'Ever since I heard the news, I have been trying to recollect his face. Unfortunately I have not been able to.' 'It seems he was a very quiet, studious boy.' 'I still do not know how I might have......

Congratulate Google CEO Sundar Pichai!

Join Rediff.com in congratulating Sundar on his new job and wish him all the very best here! Bringing huge cheer to Indians in the mother country and the world over is the news that Sundar Pichai......

Subroto Bagchi on the essence of success

Subroto Bagchi is best known for co-founding MindTree in 1999 where he started as the chief operating officer. Bagchi, now the vice chairman and gardener of MindTree, has written extensively in......

Fake PANs may tighten checks

The finance ministry is considering tightening validation checks for issuance of permanent account numbers to reduce chances of duplicate numbers being issued.The revenue department has already......

Pattalam satisfies only briefly

"Back to School!" screams the tagline for N Lingusamy's Pattalam (Gang) and, as expected, this Tamil movie is all about the laughter and tears, magic and despair of the wonder years in school. It's......

Happy Birthday, Arya!

Tamil actor and producer Arya turns 36. IMAGE: Arya poses for a selfie with his parents and brother Jamshad Cethirakath, better known by his stage name Arya, was born in Trikaripur, Kerala, to a......

Remembering Shammi: The Life and Times

'I sometimes fight with God and tell him, "Bahut ho gaya yaar, I should go now, call me".'Shammi, the well known character actress, passed into the ages, March 6.Rediff.com's Patcy N remembers her......

'We all are one, whichever religion we belong to'

Actor-politician Sunil Dutt touched many people's lives in his 74 years (he would have been 75 on June 6). And journalist Lata Khubchandani is one of those who remembers Mr Dutt very fondly. She......

'I would have been the king of limited overs cricket'

'I am not envious of those who are making millions. It's their era and I had my era.' IMAGE: Cricket legend Salim Durani trains budding cricketers in Jamnagar in this January 2004 photograph.......

Remembering Football Legend Tulsidas Balaram

Tulsidas Balaram, who passed into the ages last week, was a member of the Indian football team which reached the semis at the Olympics and won an Asian Games gold medal. IMAGE: Tulsidas Balaram,......

Bihar bicycle girl to attend trials but studies top priority

'We will surely send for the trials after the lockdown is lifted.' IMAGE: 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari cycled her ailing father from from Gurugram to her native village in Bihar’s Darbhanga......

Meet these chess superstars!

Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar meets up with 10-year-old Praggnanandha -- the world's youngest International Master -- and his elder sister Vaishali -- a woman International Master -- to find out more......

Dhanraj flays IHF

Fuming over India's stunning loss to China at the Doha Asian Games, hockey icon Dhanraj Pillay on Friday declared that India does not deserve to compete in the Olympics. Talking to reporters, after......