Ivanka spoke for a good 15 minutes, gracefully, looking straight at her audience, her face wreathed often in winning smiles.She is an articulate, striking, woman who charmed her audience.Vaihayasi......
2014 will be a watershed election. Much is at stake and much needs to be changed. Women need their voice to be heard and they need representation with real power, says Sunanda Vashist. It is no......
As part of a series of chats, which will help understand the significance and scope of US President Barack Obama's visit to India,noted journalistSiddharth Varadarajan interacted with rediff.com......
On the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between India and China, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna spoke of the historic ties between the two counties and pitched for a strong and......
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh addressed the Council on Foreign Relations at Washington, DC, on November 23.This is the text of his speech: 'I am truly honoured by the invitation to address such......
As the market grows young, old brands go under the knife. In 1897, a young man named Ardeshir Godrej gave up law and turned to making locks. He went on to make safes and security equipment, and......
Indian IT firm Cognizant Technologies Corporation started trading at the Nasdaq exchange in New York on March 5. The company's chief executive officer Francisco D'Souza pressed a button in the......
IIT-ian Kanchana Thamodaran is a critically acclaimed Tamil writer-activist. Born and brought up in India, she obtained an undergraduate degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of......
They have funny accents, occasionally dress in strange outfits, and some wear turbans and grow beards, yet Indians have been able to overcome stereotypes to become the U.S.'s most successful......
The pedigree is impeccable, the manners flawless, the acting forgettable. Aby Baby's Junior still has to learn a thing or three about running around trees and warbling in the rain. His intense......
Since 2012, 44 Indians have been anointed as grandmasters -- the highest achievement in chess, points out Arvind Subramanian, economist and former chief economic adviser to the government. IMAGE:......
'It is unfair to look at one decision, one ball out of 600-plus on the day and say that was the reason one team won and one team lost.' IMAGE: Ben Stokes apologises after Martin Guptill's throw......
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Neeraj Chopra gives a thumbs up after his surgery. Photograph: Neeraj Chopra/Twitter Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is......
'10,000 athletes compete at an Olympic Games, only 300 go back with a gold medal.''It takes time for an athlete to develop, you have to give the athletes a chance and time to develop.' ......
They have brought laurels for the country at the major international events like Commonwealth Games and Asian Games but the trio of para-swimmer Prashant Karmakar, archer Deepika Kumari and gymnast......