Dhankar terms coaching centre culture as gas chamber

The Delhi incident in which three civil services aspirants died resonated in Parliament on Monday with Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar dubbing the culture of coaching centres as a "gas......

Puri Jagannath temple's Ratna Bhandar reopened after 46 years

Ratna Bhandar, the revered treasury of the 12th-century Jagannath temple in Puri, was reopened on Sunday after 46 years for an inventory of valuables and the repair of its structure, officials......

Why Modi Needs To Make Peace With The Opposition

Modi's inability to make peace with a renewed Opposition will only embolden his coalition partners and it is just a matter of time before they begin asking probing questions besides politely......

Modi's Rahul-Sized Headache

For the first time, Modi is eyeball to eyeball with his bete noire, sitting a few feet across him. Given the last 10 years, a confrontation between them was unavoidable, inevitable, points out......

US Targets India's Russian Oil Source

Urals and Sokol accounted for every 4 out of 5 barrels of Russian supplies to India last year. Kindly note the image has only been published for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind......

HDFC Bank-led FPI selloff: The fifth-highest weekly exit since 2008

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sold shares worth Rs 20,170 crore ($2.4 billion) recently. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com This marked the fifth-highest weekly outflow from overseas......

Offshore syndication of loans at 15-yr high, zooms to $21 bn in '23

Funds raised by India Inc. through offshore loan syndication hit a 15-year high in 2023 with companies and banks raising $21.4 billion, the highest since 2007. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......

Sebi likely to relax new disclosure norms around rumour verification

Legal experts said that as such disclosures will have a bearing on stock prices there is a need for tweaks in regulations addressing fraudulent trade practices. Khushboo Tiwari in Mumbai.......