Rediff on the Net - ‘Most Popular Website Of The Year’
Mumbai, August 30, 1998

Rediff On The Net (www.rediff.com), India’s leading on-line service swept the India Internet Awards ‘98, the first ever awards for cyber-excellence in India held by The Economic Times and Microland, by picking up two prestigious awards. Rediff was voted as the ‘Most Popular Website Of The Year’ and as the ‘Best Designed Website Of The Year’ at a glittering ceremony held in New Delhi on Wednesday 27, 1998.

The prestigious awards were judged by stalwarts in the computer industry like Sabeer Bhatia (Founder & CEO, Hotmail), Mellanie Hills (President, Knowledgies), Crystal Waters (Internet Author & Web Consultant), Saurabh Srivastava (President, NASSCOM), R Gopalakrishnan (Vice Chairman, Hindustan Lever), Pradeep Kar (Chairman & MD, Microland), Arun Arora (CEO, The Economic Times) and Ram N Aggarwal (President, Wipro Peripherals).

Commenting on being adjudged as the most popular and best designed website of the year, Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman, Rediff On The Net, said, "Rediff has always aimed to provide a world class on-line experience to its users and we are grateful that we are being appreciated for this. These awards have strengthened our resolve to make our service more useful and interactive ".

Rediff recently with the launch of its full range of services became India’s first comprehensive on-line service, which includes India’s first Electronic Commerce-which gives Indian consumers the opportunity to shop from their desktops and pay online using credit cards, Rediff Personal Homepages-a free and easy to use homepage creation service, that allows one to make their personal homepages without any technical assistance and RediffMail, a free e-mail service, which once created by users, can be read, written and accessed from any PC.

Rediff on the Net is the most visited India-oriented online service world-wide with monthly hits in excess of 50 million and more than 650,000 visitors every month. Its news service is updated round the clock and its on-line chats feature politicians, film stars and sports personalities amongst others.

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