Want To See 2,500,000 Diyas?

IMAGE: Lakhs of diyas illuminated along the banks of the Saryu river in Ayodhya as part of the Deepotsav celebrations, October 30, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo   The margins of the Saryu river......

Villages To Safeguard India's Borders

In underlining the role of border villages as custodians of India's frontiers, New Delhi is following China's example in Tibet. IMAGE: Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi presents a memento to......

How India Won Back Maldives's Trust

The avoidable stresses and strains in ties helped in one way.It showed for the entire region how a matured India handled diplomatic relations, especially with a smaller and suspicious neighbour,......

Dhaka limps back to normal, but protests yet to die down

With the metro resuming services, buses and taxis plying regularly and university students enjoying carefree evening strolls in the gardens of the historic Curzon Hall -- life seems to be returning......

'RBI should pause rate hikes'

'It will send a very strong signal that it is now our time to grow.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted the private sector to increase capital......

Control Covid for economy to recover!

Unless we control the coronavirus, we are going to struggle to get our economy and country back on track.The spectre of the virus haunts recovery, warns Naushad Forbes. Illustration: Dominic......

India throws open its ports to cruise tourism

A task force, under the chairmanship of the secretary (tourism), with the secretary (shipping) as co-chairperson, has been constituted to promote cruise tourism in the country, reports Megha......

5 stock market survival tools

Adventure enthusiasts travel for hours to get to Devprayag in north India to get the buzz of white-water rafting. Swinging up and down the 130-km stretch, they get the heart-stopping thrill of......