'Anglo-Indians have played a significant role at the forefront, meeting every challenge to the security of the motherland.'A fascinating excerpt from Barry O'Brien's The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait......
You aren't dealing with a normal, civilised, law.The NDPS Act, in its preconditions for bail, and insistence on evidence of innocence rather than guilt, is worse than UAPA.Imagine yourself or your......
'The picture only looks worse from where Bajwa sits.''He sees a domineering India to the east, an unravelling Afghanistan and a complex Iran to the west, an overbearing China on the north and a US......
The Oxford Union Debating Society, citing unforeseen "circumstances", on Wednesday sought to postpone a scheduled virtual address by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the last moment,......
In the mid-1980s, India and the US struggled to arrive at sufficient confidence for Washington to even sell a supercomputer to India for monsoon prospecting.Now, the most sensitive military......
'An entrepreneur should always remain under pressure or he will die,' Vineet Rai tells Anjuli Bhargava.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com In 2001, when the world was in the throes of......
Retail giant Walmart has the world’s largest number of employees. Take a look at world’s 10 largest employers, according to a ranking by 24/7 Wall St. Image: Wal-Mart Stores, largest......
First electric locomotive. Photograph: Siemens Two hundred years after George Stephenson built the steam-powered Blucher, Open Knowledge pays tribute to 200 years of rail transport. ......
Facebook Inc posted strong growth in its mobile advertising business on Wednesday but rattled investors after saying that it did not plan to boost the frequency of ads shown to users. Shares of the......
Money and power being "natural bedfellows" is not necessarily true in the British business world, except for steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal who figures right on the top of a new 'Richest Power List',......
'The politics of it may be wishy-washy and the saviour at Darkest Hour's centre may well be a racist, an imperialist, and an alcoholic, but in Gary Oldman's nimble skin, smacked in layers and......
'I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue.' Stirring......
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel loses the plot somewhere in the first 15 minutes, says Nishi Tiwari. Even when John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel emerged as a......
If you're a fan of action thrillers and have hungrily devoured Stallone and Segal's crappiest films of the same genre, then you're going to love John Wick, says Paloma Sharma.If you thought that......
'It is always wonderful to discover a gem of film at an international film festival. It is even more exciting when that film is from India.' Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com lists his favourite movies at......
IMAGE: Uruguay players celebrate after defeating Brazil in Copa America quarter-finals at Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, on Saturday. Photograph: Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports/Reuters Uruguay......
Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's all-time scoring record in the NBA game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. The record is passed......
Afghanistan win in quarters Photograph: Kind courtesy Afghanistan Cricket Board/Twitter Their late arrival in the Caribbean had forced the ICC to rework the fixtures of their group matches......
IMAGE: Sachin Tendulkar. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has lauded the new policy of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) mandating daily......
IMAGE: India all-rounder Hardik Pandya celebrates taking a wicket. Photograph: BCCI India all-rounder Hardik Pandya and wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik join an International Cricket Council's......