Bharat Ratna recipients' tally touches 53, maximum awardees in 2024

The decision to award Bharat Ratna to former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh and green revolution pioneer MS Swaminathan has taken the number of recipients of the country's......

Chhattisgarh: Cong reposes faith in old timers

The Congress has pinned its hopes on many of the old-timers and also included some new faces in its first list of candidates announced for the upcoming Chhattisgarh assembly polls, with Chief......

Modi, Shah, BJP CMs to attend Bhupendra Patel's swearing-in on Monday

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Bhupendra Patel will take oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term in Gandhinagar on Monday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and......

Bhupendra Patel elected as Gujarat CM for 2nd term

Bhupendra Patel will continue as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term with the newly-elected MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) electing him as leader of the legislative......

India Inc awaits demand uptick to go on capex spree

Chief executive officers (CEOs) across sectors have expressed intentions to expand capacities, expecting the government’s target to invest a record Rs 11.11 trillion on infrastructure......

'Banks will continue infrastructure projects financing'

'Banks make money because they take the right credit calls. So they need to focus on risk mitigation rather than risk avoidance.' Kindly note the image has been published only for representational......

'Private capex will depend on demand and supply situation'

'The private sector will look to the Budget to check whether there are any headwinds or tailwinds.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com R Shankar Raman, the chief financial officer and......

Rs 8.45 trn & rising: Orders flood major capital goods firms

India’s leading capital goods and engineering firms are in the midst of one of their busiest seasons, with the combined orderbook surging past Rs 8 trillion in value. Photograph: Dan......

Bollywood is ga-ga over Pankaj Tripathi

Continuing our series: Actors We Love.Interview: Patcy N/Rediff.comVideo and Production: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com IMAGE: Pankaj Tripathi in Newton. Pankaj Tripathi seems to be finally getting......

'I want to be the best actor there is'

'It's all that pain that makes you the artist you are.' Akshay Oberoi is riding the success wave, and enjoying every second of it. It is, after all, extremely hard earned. The actor, who recently......

'Bollywood filmmakers portray Kashmiris as violent people'

The Toronto International Film Festival, which starts today, will have an Indian touch to it. Besides Kiran Rao's Dhobhi Ghaat, Kashmiri filmmaker Aamir Bashir's Harud (Autumn) will have a world......

Aamir Khan's TOP 55 SONGS!

What more can one say about Aamir Khan?  He's the A to Z of awesomeness whose perfectionist ways, enormous talent and eye for successful scripts has made him a darling of cinephiles for over......

Vijay Hazare: Rahul hits ton; Chhattisgarh stun Mumbai

KL Rahul slammed a quickfire 131 off 122 balls to help Karnataka beat Kerala by 60 runs. A roundup of the matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy One-Day tournament, on Saturday. IMAGE: KL Rahul......

Tests in mind, Chahal picked for SA 'A' four-day matches

IMAGE: Yuzvendra Chahal. Photograph: Adnan Abid /Reuters With an aim to prepare him for the Test format, leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal was, on Monday, named in the India A team for the two four-day......

Ranji Trophy: Mumbai record three points vs Railways

Former skipper Aditya Tare scored his eighth first-class hundred on an inconsequential final day of their Ranji Trophy group A encounter against Railways here on Sunday. Having ensured three points......

Ranji Roundup: Mukund's century help TN; Mumbai bundle out Chhattisgarh

Mukund's century, stand with Indrajith help TN to 215 for 3 A patient century by Test discard Abhinav Mukund and his 155-run partnership with captain Baba Indrajith (86) helped Tamil Nadu......

Ranji roundup: Ashwin made to work hard on Day 1

A roundup of Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy matches on Thursday. IMAGE: The India Test spinner had one wicket to show in 21 overs during Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy Group B match against Madhya Pradesh.......