After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
Questions that the state had come to recognise over time but consistently delayed treating seriously because doing so requires an overhaul of perspective and lifestyle, notes Shyam G Menon. IMAGE:......
A family outing turned tragic when a woman and two girls drowned at a waterfall close to Bhushi Dam in Pune's Lonavala area on Sunday. Two children in the 4-9 age group remain missing. A......
'The culture of mankind has been spread by the travel gene which pushes one in five people to have the curiosity to move to unknown destinations.' IMAGE: Commander Hugh and Mrs Colleen Gantzer......
The highest day temperature so far this summer in Churu was 50.8 degrees on June 1, beating the 49.8 degree record set in 1993, according to the weather department. IMAGE: A camel stands on......
Most farmers depend on rainwater for farming; depleting groundwater has exacerbated the matters. Image: Monsoon 2015 marks a period when India suffered back-to-back droughts, a phenomenon which......
Anantha Padmanabhan is offering deep discounts and giving freebies to attract customers to his gold bangle festival in southern India, but he is still struggling to sell in a region where monsoon......
Fourteen years after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government lost its reign in Delhi due to its perceived inability to control onion prices, the fear of a repeat looms large with the......
When foreigners say Bangalore is India's version of Silicon Valley, the high-tech office park called Electronics City is what they're often thinking of. But however much Californians might hate......
Ashutosh Gowarikar, whose Lagaan began its Oscar-nomination journey at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) seven years ago premieres his What's Your Raashee? there next month. The film......
William Shakespeare wasn't the source for Vishal Bhardwaj's Kaminey but the Bard whose Othello inspired Bharadwaj's hit Omkara and whose Macbeth became Maqbool was very much looking over the......
Priyanka Chopra’s Mary Kom will get a red carpet premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September. But Salman Khan, co-producer of the Canadian English-language......
Indian Stunner,' the headline in the New York Post reads, followed by a glowing review for Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's bestseller The Namesake. Giving the film three and half stars......