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Aakar Patel: China Flourishes While India Digs Up Past

We no longer have the ambition to rival China save through words. We are happy to be fighting ourselves and digging up disputes from centuries ago as a substitute for real development, argues Aakar......

Delhi drug bust: Police says kingpin has Cong links

Delhi Police on Thursday arrested another person in connection with the city's biggest-ever drug haul with investigators finding that the main accused had alleged links with leaders of a national......

What Mahabali Won't Hear

Questions that the state had come to recognise over time but consistently delayed treating seriously because doing so requires an overhaul of perspective and lifestyle, notes Shyam G Menon. IMAGE:......

Not angry but...: BNP leader on Hasina's stay in India

'New Delhi has to make up its mind whether it wants to be a friend of the Bangladeshi people or they want to be a friend of a section of people, or one party or one leader' SPECIAL......

Beware! China, Pakistan's Bangladesh Games

Bangladesh is in turmoil, which is not good news for India, which shares a porous 4,000 km border with it. There is a danger of fundamentalism growing there, and India has to move in to reset its......

Valuations, access to capital spur fintechs' homecoming

Why are financial-technology (fintech) players moving back to India, or doing the reverse-flipping? Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The reasons are financial regulation, better access to......

'Rs 1.7 trillion may be GST average collection next FY'

'We crossed Rs 1.7 trillion in three months this financial year.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) chairman Sanjay Kumar Agarwal tells......

India tops remittances table with $125 bn inflows: World Bank report

India is expected to be the top recipient of remittances in 2023 as inflows increase 12.4 per cent to $125 billion, said a World Bank report on Tuesday. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters......

Crisis Brews In Darjeeling's Tea Gardens

In the last three years, 20 gardens have changed hands, and 90 per cent of the buyers are from non-tea background. IMAGE: A worker gathers tea leaves at the Happy Valley tea garden estate in......

Exports saw sharp fall on decline in US and UAE share

Exports to India’s key markets — the US, the United Arab Emirates, China, Singapore, Bangladesh and Germany — witnessed a sharp decline, resulting in a 12.69 per cent contraction......

The Best Political Biopic? VOTE!

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's biopic Main Atal Hoon reveals the pitfalls of making films on political figures: The maker has to be careful not to offend any followers. It often results in bland......

Charming SRK In Lutt Putt Gaya

The second glimpse from Rajkumar Hirani's keenly awaited Dunki shows us the cutesy chemistry between Shah Rukh Khan and Taapsee Pannu in the song Lutt Putt Gaya. This feel-good romantic track has......

Wimbledon: Venus, Murray get wild cards; prize money reduced

IMAGE: Venus Williams. Photograph: Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images Former champions Venus Williams and Andy Murray were named in Wimbledon's initial list of wildcards on Wednesday for this month's......

14-day quarantine in Mumbai for SL-bound Indian team

IMAGE: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan and Ishan Kishan are part of the second-string India team for their limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka next month. Photograph: BCCI India's white ball squad,......

World Cup: Three shooters test positive for COVID-19

IMAGE: The shooters are currently self-isolating in their team hotel. Photograph: Francois Nel/Getty Images Three shooters, including two from the Indian pistol men's team, have tested......

India@ Aus Open: Divij, Ankita bow out of doubles

IMAGE: Divij Sharan and his Slovakian partner Igor Zelenay went down to the German combination of Yannick Hanfmann Kevin Krawietz in the first round of the men's doubles at the Australian Open.......

English sports get $ 400 million bailout

IMAGE: Gabriel Jesus of Manchester City reacts. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images The British government announced a 300 million pounds ($397.11 million) 'winter survival package' on......

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