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Nuclear Or Conventional Submarines: What Should India Pick?

The status of the current submarine force level is alarming and we need to address the threat perceptions expeditiously.Critical decisions pertaining to national security cannot be delayed any......

And Indrani snorted in laughter...

When a trial for a murder is going on -- with no end in sight -- more than ten years after the crime took place, it will not feel like the murder happened yesterday.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel returns......

A spoilsport in a time of genocide remembrance

'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.''There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the......

Sheena Bora Trial: The Shrink Testifies

As he was giving evidence, Dr Matcheswalla peremptorily summoned the CBI representative over to the witness box and whispered something.Indrani Mukerjea's advocate Sudeep Pasbola immediately cut......

Sheena Bora Trial: What's Peter's crime?

The 25 odd witnesses that so far had given testimony had not come up with anything incriminating against Peter or the way Shivade characterised it -- "not even a whisper."Vaihayasi Pande Daniel......

Strong FPI flows, buoyant retail sentiment to keep bulls snorting

Indices across Indian equity markets have edged towards new record highs before undergoing a small correction in the past few sessions. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters The National Stock......

YUMMY! Stunning images of chocolate shops and factories

Chocolate is among the most popular and widely consumed substances in today's world. According to Trasparency Market Research, the primary growth driver of the global chocolate market is the......

'Wish prices were kept low for the common man'

For Ashok Upadhyay, a taxi driver from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, who makes his living in Mumbai, there are concerns more pressing than the Budget. Namely, he says, prices for even basic......

Solve this case, win Rs 25,000!

Rediff Business presents the TCS Smart Manager Case Contest # 31 along with The Smart Manager, India's first world class management magazine! So don your thinking caps, test your analytical skills......

The world's best-paid models

A thin waistline can add up to a thick wallet. At least it has for the world's supermodels. These beautiful women have catwalked their way into the big time--and the big bucks. In fact, the five......

Revenge Of The Nepo Kid

Sikandar Kher's Nishikant Adhikari is a solitary poet by the corner, trying to remind us that the honest plans of honest people don't always come to respectable ends, observes Sreehari Nair.......

Bloody Brothers Review

Bloody Brothers is watchable, especially in the scenes of its two lead actors trying to work out something from the puny material given to them.Jaideep Ahlawat, who suggests roiling energy and......

Vicky Kaushal's Top 5 Performances

Vicky Kaushal is a portrait of controlled portrayals that bring out the vulnerable, vital and vile sides to every character's personality. In a career of eight years, the actor -- who turned 33 on......

Can Bollywood make a film as smart as this one?

Sreehari Nair reviews Ayyappanum Koshiyum. IMAGE: Prithviraj as Koshi Kurian in Ayyappanum Koshiyum. Sachy's Ayyappanum Koshiyum starts off as a Man versus Man story and, very slowly,......

Elton John's Me is what a memoir should be

The long-awaited book is frank, funny, self-lacerating and full of gossip-worthy anecdotes. What else could we ask of the Rocketman?, asks Roshneesh K'Maneck. IMAGE: Elton John in his trademark......

Nadal's grand ambitions thwarted in Australia again

'Tennis isn't a sport that is fair. I have what I deserved in my career, and over here in Australia I had chances, but I was not able to convert it.' IMAGE: Rafael Nadal has now lost in the......

Showman Gayle still swaggers in universe of his own

Chris Gayle overtook Sir Vivian Richards as leading run-scorer in England and West Indies ODIs. ‘Come in number 45, your time is up’ must be one of the most unwelcome cries in cricket......

Children of another dangal

'Dangal gives people the impression that Geeta and Babita Phogat's rise to fame as wrestlers is a one-off phenomenon.''Many young wrestlers in Haryana are capable of reaching the same heights as......

South Africa's World T20-bound spinner Phangiso suspended over illegal action

South Africa left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso will miss the first two Twenty20 Internationals against Australia this week after his action was found to be illegal by the International Cricket......

South Africa spinner Phangiso reported for suspect action

IMAGE: New Zealand's Kane Williamson gets his bat over the crease before South Africa's Aaron Phangiso (L) can run him out during their T20 International cricket match in Durban, August 14, 2015.......

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