Elections for 19 Rajya Sabha seats on Friday

Elections for 19 Rajya Sabha seats spread across eight states will be held on Friday with the contest in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan promising to be a close affair between the BJP and the......

Meet India's centenarian WWII hero

Lt Col Sumer Singh, who has fought the Germans, the Japanese, the Afghans and the Pakistanis in various battlefields, says he wants to live even longer. Lieutenant Colonel Sumer Singh (retd), a......

Rajasthan ADGP surrenders before CBI court

Absconding Additional Director General of Rajasthan Police A K Jain, wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation for his alleged role in the fake encounter death of a local liquor smuggler, on......

J&K: 4 terrorists, 1 jawan killed in gunbattle

Security personnel killed four top terrorists of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Tayiba but lost one army jawan in a day-long fierce gunbattle in the border district of Kupwara in north Kashmir on......

Sumer Juneja to head India arm of $100-billion Vision Fund

Unlike many peers in the VC space, LSE grad Juneja doesn’t have an entrepreneurial background but is said to be strong in finance skills India’s most prolific start-up investor,......

SoftBank on prowl to woo 'future stars'

Keen to back start-ups while they are half-unicorns, SoftBank plans to invest $100 million in a firm with $500-million valuation. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com OYO, FirstCry, Delhivery,......

N-deal prize for US firms? Over $100 billion!

For the past three years, eager executives from US-based producers of nuclear power plants have been making a beeline for New Delhi, meeting with Indian government officials and coming back to......