9000 people evacuated in Punjab due to rain, 8 die; Haryana reports 7 deaths

Rain in Haryana and Punjab abated after three days of onslaught even as several parts still remained flooded and the death toll due to rain-related incident mounted to 15. IMAGE: The State......

From desert to hills, rain spares little in north India

The rain ebbed in some places in north India and pelted down in others on Tuesday, with at least seven more people dead and hundreds stranded as raging waters gushed through villages, towns and......

More to Nehru's Absence from Azadi Poster Than Ideological Conflict

Public intellectuals who frame the ideological antipathy between the RSS & Co and Jawaharlal Nehru in the light of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and Hindu Raj alone, miss the point by a yard,......

World leaders congratulate Biden-Harris for their victory

World leaders from across the political spectrum congratulated Joe Biden who became the president-elect of the United States, and Kamala Harris who made history as the first female to serve as the......

Who will bell the Ponzi schemes?

A system of multiple regulations operating in silos has created grey areas that foster illegal money raisingA group of people from the chit fund sector wrote a Right to Information application......

Disney homes in on developers

For seven-year-old Bhavana, it was a dream come true. Her father had just explained that he was buying a house in a ‘Disney’ land, where she could live, play, study and swim along with......

Experts share their view on the Budget

It is surprising to see that there is no direct focus being given to the IT industry in the budget this year.World over, this decade is defined as a decade of information technology driven......

Foreign banks warm up to small towns

Two years back, when Sandeep Tayde (name changed on request) visited Jalgaon to meet prospective customers for his employer, a foreign bank, people looked at him with suspicion. "They had never......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 25 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

'I still regret saying no to Raj Kapoor for Satyam Shivam Sundaram'

Veteran actor Vidya Sinha passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Thursday at the age of 71. We reproduce a fascinating interview of Sinha that she gave to Rediff.com's Patcy N in January 2015. 'I......

How Bollywood's superhero films fare at the box office

Ranbir Kapoor fans had been waiting for his Brahmastra to release later this year. With Director Ayan Mukherjee announcing that the film's VFX would take a lot more time than expected, the wait may......

Review: 2.0 forgets to have fun

'2.0 ends up looking like a downgraded version of a promising idea,' notes Sukanya Verma. For a movie that constantly weighs in the pros and cons of technology, it's a pity how inept 2.0's own......