Pilot Error Or System Failure? What Black Box Reveals

'The goal is a 360-degree reconstruction of the flight's final minutes to ensure nothing is overlooked.' IMAGE: The Air India aircraft is seen in flames after it crashed into a medical college......

AI 171 Crash: What CVR, FDR May Reveal

How cockpit voices and flight data unravel what happened during an air crash. IMAGE: A crane removes the wreckage of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, which crashed during take-off......

Pilot Cuts Raise Safety Alarms

'Who gave the Tatas the right to discontinue technically sound practices related to safety and security?' IMAGE: Part of the fuselage of the Air India Dreamliner aircraft embedded in the building......

'Such Crashes Are One-In-A-Million'

'A Mayday at 600-800 feet followed by descent to 450 feet suggests the pilot still had control.' 'Until the black box is decoded, no one -- not Air India, DGCA or ATC -- can say what truly......

'Not Time To Panic. It's Time To Buy'

'It won't be a V-shaped recovery. It'll be consolidation.''Investors might exit during that grind. It'll be painful.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   As global markets reel from......

'Investors: Stay Calm. Avoid Speculative Investment Behaviour'

'My advice: Don't mark your portfolio to market every day. Focus on survival.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Global equity markets are in a state of upheaval, and the panic is......

How To Make Money In A Bear Market

'Reduce your equity allocation, put that allocation into gold and fixed income.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   "This is going to be a long, problematic bear market... Bear markets......

'Bull Market Has Ended'

'The bull market cycle ran for five years. It's the end of that cycle.''The next cycle is a down cycle, and in that down cycle, you will see the Sensex falling from their highs of around 68,000 to......

Chhaava Review: Big Thumbs Up!

Chhaava deserves 2 stars for the historically half-baked film that it is, but 4 stars just for its attempt on making a film on Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, observes Prasanna D Zore. This is the......

'2.5 Inch Knife Removed From Saif's Spine'

Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Saif Ali Khan sustained a major injury to the thoracic spinal cord due to a knife lodged in it. A surgery was performed to remove the 2.5-inch-long knife......

Why Chhaava Has Become Controversial

Loud music, bombastic action scenes, over-the-top dialogues that don't have any ring of truth to it followed by scenes of blood-oozing bodies floating in a river definitely don't make for a magnum......

Will Vicky Do Justice To Chhava?

Ishaan P Zore doesn't think Vicky Kaushal's persona quite matches Chhatrapati Sambhaji's iconic figure. Chhatrapati Sambhaji, the son of the great Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji,......