Swathes of northern and eastern India remained in the grip of a punishingly long heatwave on Wednesday, increasing heat stroke casualties and prompting the Centre to issue advisory to hospitals to......
I have a bit of a personal dilemma: I have a soft corner for Shashi Tharoor, but I do like Rajeev Chandrasekhar's pitch, confesses Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Dr Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Lok......
Roads were closed, subway services were disrupted and basements were overwhelmed in the New York City area after “dangerous and life-threatening” torrential rain surged across the......
A lady in a white salwar suit leads the chants of people holding both Indian and US flags.Rediff.com US Contributor Abhijit J Masih reports from the White House. IMAGE: Eera and Mike wait for a......
‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......
India’s e-commerce giants, led by Flipkart, Amazon, and Meesho, are making a strategic push into Tier-II and —III cities and rural regions, where demand for online shopping is surging......
Job postings declined on an annual basis in September but witnessed a marginal uptick compared to August this year, a report said on Tuesday. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com There was a......
India’s cities are bursting at the seams because poor people are migrating to them in search of work and finding a place to live only in slums, old and new, says Subir Roy. IMAGE: The......
Image: Five-month old African elephant calf Tuluba and its mother Numbi eat some snow in their enclosure at Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna. Photograph: Reuters Vienna is the......
Image: Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu with Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha Photograph, courtesy: PIB The Railway Budget presented on Thursday in......
The second season of City Of Dreams has more pulp, hardly any juice, feels Sreehari Nair. Season 1 of Nagesh Kukunoor's City of Dreams, for all its pulpiness, aspired to paint an epic vision of......
Sukanya Verma shares her exciting filmi week with us. I am in Delhi these days. Delhi, most months, is not an easy city to live in but in May it's just impossible. When not cursing the unbearable......
Love is a universal phenomenon experienced in every nook and corner of the world. Sadly, Hindi movies are often so preoccupied depicting the dating scene in urban scenarios they ignore the beauty......
For families thatare not into Paranormal Activity 2 or Saw 3D, the holiday season will start this Friday with DreamWorks Megamind which is expected to lead the box office across North America. The......
Just about a month ago, my closest friend and I took the Metro from Delhi's Connaught Place, the offically acknowledged center of New Delhi, to the arteries and valves of the unpredictably......
- 'Brazil isn't all about lack of planning, overpricing and with no commitment to dates and times. There is a part of Brazil that operates properly.' Image: Aerial view of Christ the Redeemer,......
To assist Chappell and Frazer, the RCA has roped in five local coaches, all ex-Ranji Trophy players who have since passed the Level 2 coaching exams conducted by the board: Sharad Joshi,......