While WHO efforts have dramatically reduced leprosy, India still accounts for more than half of the world’s new cases each year. Dr Jonathan Reisman, who spent four months in Kolkata......
Three teenage college friends of Chechen-origin Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tried to save him although they knew that he was involved in the terrorist attack, with two of them......
The annual pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine of Amarnath was flagged off from winter capital Jammuon Mondaymorning.The yatra is being initially allowed via the north Kashmir Baltel route as......
Elections in Karnataka this year will have a visible change compared to the earlier elections.The Election Commission has decided to do away with the earlier procedure where an ink blotch is......
Leading FMCG firm Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) on Thursday announced the separation of the position of chairman of the Board and the CEO & managing director, and has appointed Nitin Paranjpe as a......
The investigation against HUL was initiated on the basis of an anonymous complaint. It alleged ‘profiteering’ of around Rs 535 crore between November 15, 2017, and February 28, 2018.......
The two battle it out in the controversial but lucrative fairness cream market, spark a fresh bout of aggression in the war between the brands Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Hindustan......
TV channels have never hesitated to wage war when it comes to grabbing eyeballs. But this one seems unprecedented. The four major Hindi general entertainment channels -- STAR Plus, Sony, Colors and......
Harsh C Mariwala, the chairman of Mumbai-based consumer goods company Marico, has change on his mind.For decades, he had been focussed on niche categories.His strategy was to launch differentiated......
Model turned actress Kirti Kulhari's debut was as the girl next door in Khichdi The Movie. Quite different from her next movie, Shaitan, where she has a rather daring kissing scene with female......
Somewhere, there must have lurked a good idea. Perhaps on paper, there was indeed a certain something to these four briefly-interlinked stories about Indians heading, for varied reasons, to......
One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday.Rediff.com salutes the legend. IMAGE: Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Photograph: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......
IMAGE: India's Viswanathan Anand suffered a loss against American Wesley So in the fourth round of the Norway Chess tournament. Photograph: Norway Chess/Twitter India's legend Viswanathan Anand's......
Where will the line be drawn if external substances are used to shine ball, asks Aakash Chopra. Saliva and sweat are components that cannot be entirely done away with, insist a few distinguished......
Ball-tampering is not just confined to the highest-level, it is a deep-rooted phenomenon in domestic cricket IMAGE: Bottle openers, zippers of trousers, lip balm, hair gel, or in Cameron......
Factbox on major ball-tampering incidents in cricket after in the wake of the ongoing probe into the Australian team for attempting to alter the state of the ball during the third day of the third......