After The Oval Office Fracas, What Next For Ukraine?

The big question now is whether the unprecedented fracas in the White House could backfire on Zelenskyy since Washington has significant leverage vis-a-vis Kyiv and given Ukraine's heavy dependence......

How I Became A Coorg By Order!

'After his warm and affectionate farewell speech, the Chief of Staff of the formation asked me, "So, now you are off to Coorg to look after your coffee estates?"'For the last time, in Army uniform......

Wake-Up Call For India-US Ties

The real intention of the 'Tariff Man' (as Trump calls himself) may not even be to put the 'Tariff King' (as he describes India) on the mat with a knockout punch but to arm-twist the Indian......

Are Trump and Musk Dismantling American Democracy?

We the people are left in the wind, waiting on the whims of an unengaged president and an oligarch with a nearly bottomless wallet, observes Sree Sreenivasan. IMAGE: US President Donald J Trump......

Capex slows in FY25 but key infrastructure, power players set to benefit

Post-election capital expenditure (capex) has been weak at 2 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in M9FY25. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The FY25 revised estimates (RE) indicate 7 per cent......

'Capital is flowing back to the US'

'Even if India is attractive, FPIs currently lack the funds to invest, as money is being redirected to the US.' Kotak Institutional Equities is of the view that the markets are likely to remain......

Why Nifty tanked over 14% from its record peak

Equity benchmark indices are facing massive corrections, with the NSE Nifty declining over 14 per cent from its lifetime high hit in September last year due to several negative triggers like......

Growth jitters take a 'byte' out of TCS

Shares of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest IT services provider, continue to remain under pressure, hitting a new eight-month low of Rs 3,624.90 intraday on Tuesday......

My role is to be aggressive and bowl at the stumps: Chakravarthy

IMAGE: Varun Chakravarthy has taken 20 wickets in nine T20Is since making his comeback to the Indian team in October last year. Photograph: BCCI India spinner Varun Chakravarthy on Friday equated......

Agassi hopes to make a generational change in India...

'What I hope to do is provide a vehicle for that scale and growth in literacy and English as a second language here.' IMAGE: Tennis taught me how to navigate a very intense environment and......