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......

MUST SEE: India looks up to THESE men

In the last three years, photographer Zakia Shakir has zigzagged across the world to train her camera on some of India's most famous men. Her mission was to capture the intimate, unusual side of......

Will perpetual Modi critics see the true picture?

'We are no longer striving for a strategic partnership. We have arrived at one.' The lion's share of the credit for this transformation goes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says Dr Vijay......

India, a nation of Unicorns?

As 8 new startups join the 2018 club, average time taken to be a $1 billion firm now stands at 5-7 years, next only to China, says a Nasscom report Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com India is......

Modi's rendezvous with 40 start-ups: What's in store?

Founders of Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm, Ola, Quikr, Zomato and Softbank are expected to participate in the event. More than 40 start-ups and investors will on Saturday come together in a 10-hour......

11,500 startups to come up in India by 2020

As many as 11,500 startups would come up in the country employing over 2,50,000 people by 2020, according to key findings of India Start-up Report 2014 of industry body Nasscom. Unveiling the......

Acquisitions on their mind, global majors scout for Indian start-ups

Acquisition of Indian software product start-ups by Facebook, Google and Yahoo! over recent months might just be the tipping point for Indian entrepreneurs. According to several sources, Walmart,......

Meet India's medallists at Birmingham CWG

Indian athletes are on a roll at the ongoing Birmingham Commonwealth Games. With 55 medals thus far, India are 5th on the list of medal winners.    Rediff.com introduces you to the......