Doctors Strike Opens Fissures In Bengal

'The Bengali middle class, who never fully embraced Mamata Banerjee's policies, are now expressing their deep-seated frustration by spilling out on to the streets.' IMAGE: A torch rally from......

How year's most extravagant wedding was made secure

Entry based on a QR code messaged on personal mobile phones, colour-coded paper wristbands for access to different zones, and a medical response preparedness reserved for heads of state helped......

'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

Waiting In The Wings: The Creator Economy

...current industry models will soon fade out, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   "Sir, can I have a word with you," asked the man in security-guard uniform at......

Buy mid, small-caps selectively, say analysts

After a sharp outperformance in the mid-and small-cap segments in the first half of calendar year 2023 (H1-CY23), analysts are now turning cautious on these two market segments and suggest......

Media & entertainment space gets new PE fund

In what is amongst the first focused fund in the space, India Media Entertainment Fund (IMEF) is raising Rs 500 crore, which will provide both equity as well as instruments like non-convertible......

Founder of Tik-Tok's parent company steps down

Chinese tech unicorn ByteDance co-founder billionaire Zhang Yiming on Thursday announced that he will step down as CEO, in a surprise move that signalled a major leadership shake-up at the nine......

Bharti Airtel rejigs corporate structure to sharpen focus on digital

Bharti Airtel on Wednesday announced a new corporate structure to sharpen the company's focus on rapidly unfolding digital opportunities while enabling it to unlock value. The move comes at a time......

'Not many actors can lip sync to my songs'

Singer and composer Kailash Kher is on the road, performing across America with his band Kailasa. He spoke at length to Arthur J Pais about his meteoric rise in the Indian music industry in less......

'Till yesterday, you were glowing in your exalted place like a queen'

'The very fact that she survived her migration to Bollywood, where many young lives have been sacrificed or abandoned to the streets, bears testimony to her grit, determination and good fortune,'......

Bundesliga to lure soccer-starved global TV audiences

'With the Bundesliga as the only league to be broadcast on TV, I expect we will have an audience of a billion' IMAGE: Highlights this weekend include league leaders Bayern away at Union Berlin on......

Boxing school in Rio slum shows sport's power before Olympics

IMAGE: Jessica , 9, poses for a photograph in an alley, also known as "viela", in the Mare favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2, 2016. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters. Beneath a street lamp in......

Sports Shorts: Force India complete 2019 grid with Stroll

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday IMAGE: Williams' Lance Stroll. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Force India completed Formula One's 2019 driver line-up on Friday......

Singapore in the driving seat as it negotiates new F1 deal

'This is one of the top ranked Grand Prix ... and one of the markets that the key sponsors of F1 are most interested in.' Singapore race is one of the most popular, taking place at night on a......