SHAME: 1 in 4 Indians still practice untouchability

Children sitting inside cement water pipes play on the Marina beach in Chennai. Photograph: Babu/Reuters Sixty-five years after untouchability was abolished, one in four Indians admit to......

Can Modi Beat Rajiv Gandhi's 404 MPs Record?

Modi wants the BJP to gets an additional 10% of the vote share from what it won in 2019.Plans are afoot to get new faces to replace MPs with poor chances of winning. Sources say more than 100 MPs......

2024 seat-sharing, convenor post on agenda for INDIA's Mumbai meet

Leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc are set to hold hectic parleys during a two-day conclave in Mumbai starting Thursday during which they will announce a coordination committee and a logo for the......

INDIA leaders decide to be ready for NDA 'surprises', early polls

Opposition bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Thursday decided to get into poll mode and speed up its plans to take on the National Democratic Alliance in the 2024 Lok......

What Will FM's Budget Speech Focus On?

The finance minister, in her Budget speech, should focus more on what she is directly responsible for, rather than on programmes where her role is largely supportive, notes Nitin Desai. IMAGE:......

'Can We In Our Businesses Set An Example?'

'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from......

'India can become centre of exporting fertiliser'

'The government has put in a lot of effort to provide infrastructure for the industry.' Photograph: Kind courtesy A M International AM International, which has interests in petrochemicals,......

'India can become centre of exporting fertiliser'

'The government has put in a lot of effort to provide infrastructure for the industry.' Photograph: Kind courtesy A M International AM International, which has interests in petrochemicals,......

Bollywood Bets On Sooryanvanshi Effect

vSurajeet Das Gupta reports. IMAGE: The PVR theatre in Mumbai. Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar for Rediff.com   Can Bollywood, battered for nearly two years by Covid, get back on its feet and......

Coach Flick's masterstroke gets Germany back on track

IMAGE: Germany's players celebrate after Niclas Fuellkrug scored the equaliser against Spain during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group E match at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor on Sunday. Photograph:......

Why Ferrari could leave F1 after 2020

Ferrari are the only team to have been in Formula One since the first world championship season in 1950 and also the most successful and glamorous. IMAGE: Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in action.......