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......
The 78-year-old Naveen is on the cusp of creating history. He must win the forthcoming assembly polls to become India's longest-serving chief minister, a record held by Sikkim's Pawan Kumar......
The Centre has taken a major step towards increasing efficiency in decision-making by empowering joint secretaries to report to secretaries directly, officials said on Wednesday. Joint secretaries......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the opposition brought the no-confidence motion against his government to test the confidence of its own alliance members in each other as the......
Debates on changing the name of India to Bharat continue to spark a crisis of identity without answering moot questions that stare us in the face.Ramesh Menon asks a few of those questions that do......
Ministers may come and ministers may go but the attitude of the RB remains the same forever, and it is this group that really calls the shots in Indian Railways, says S Pushpavanam. The rhetoric......
'China is struggling to get out of its property bubble.''Japan took 35 years to walk out of its equity bubble.''Bubbles can be difficult to forecast.' IMAGE: The bull at the Bombay Stock Exchange.......
Officials in the railway ministry have already noted that when the prime minister returned from Australia, Suresh Prabhu drove directly from the airport to Rail Bhavan in his rumpled pullover,......
Image: Railways’ finances are under strain. Photograph: Reuters Suresh Prabhu, the new railways minister, not only needs to save the railways from the clutches of......
'Indian families' needs and expectations have gone through a revolution across economic demographics.''As this latest Modi-Sitharaman Budget demonstrated, politicians have understood this change.......
Throughout its 155 minutes, every scene is doused in blaring background music and melodrama.Disappointment alone won't do, it must feel like a full blown catastrophe, observes Sukanya Verma.......
Mukkabaaz, a film in which its lead actor shines, unfortunately tries to pack in a punch too many, says Indira Kannan. Mukkabaaz, or The Brawler as it was titled for its world premiere at the......
Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources. IMAGE: A glimpse of the Chinese city of Hangzhou, the venue for the......
'They insist to compete in national cross country just a week ahead of the much important Mumbai Marathon where top runners will compete. Imagine, if your boss tells you each week, several times a......
‘In this country, cricketers, even from Bangladesh, find sponsors but not people like me, why? Are we that bad?’ ‘From Mukul Roy to current minister Suresh Prabhu. I have been......