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'This is a loud message to national parties...'

'... that they should listen to people of the North East and find a permanent solution to tribal problems.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supremo Narendra D Modi at an election rally in Tripura.......

'Many BJP MLAs will quit the party'

'Removing Biplab Deb and replacing him with Manik Saha is a fruitless exercise that the BJP national leadership has indulged in.''It is foolish to think that people will forget what these two have......

The royal and political privileges of the Scindias

People close to the erstwhile royal family underline that Jyotiraditya Scindia is neither as accessible nor as unpretentious as his father.Sandeep Kumar reports. IMAGE: Jyotiraditya Scindia......

Coming up: 2017's 1st big royal wedding

A modern day prince and princess are getting married in Bengaluru this weekend.We look at their families and their fascinating connections to each other. Mumbai Mirror alerted us to the Big Royal......

How World War II changed India

'The origins of the model of planned economic development adopted by independent India was a direct consequence of the war.''The war provided an opportunity for groups at the margins of Indian......

A year of living and working in the shadow of Covid-19 pandemic

There is no one way to describe the 12 months that have gone by since India reported its first Covid-positive case on January 30, 2020. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A year when life......

'Recovery could be a couple of quarters away'

'There are a lot of positive things these reforms are bringing about and it is only a matter of some quarters before the growth rate picks up momentum.''Until then we need to be a little bit......

Billionaire Club: India's 100 richest business tycoons

A majority of India's billionaires gained wealth in the last one year despite the stock market decline and they continued to splurge on life's luxuries. Image: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh......

Drug firms go slow on overseas M&As

Outbound acquisitions by Indian drug companies slumped 67 per cent during the year as a global credit crunch squeezed liquidity. The less-than-anticipated results of a few big-ticket acquisitions......

Aishwarya, Jignesh Shah among young global leaders

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai, Godrej executive director Tanya Dubash, Park Hotels president Priya Paul, and Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal are among a list of 25 Indians who have been named......

'They call me King of Disco'

'Oscar has been given to A R Rahman.' 'Ringa Ringa Ringa, Choli ki peeche kya hai -- What's the difference? Exactly the same.''Also, Jai ho.''I did Ramba ho in 1985.''Rahman combined three of my......

'I am the godfather of disco'

'You make a hit, everything is fit.' IMAGE: Bappi Lahiri at home. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 1980s and......

The Kishore Kumar NO ONE Knew!

When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......

When Kishore Kumar was accompanied by an invisible boy!

Kishore Kumar gave us unforgettable songs and performances in his long career in Bollywood. The icon, who would have turned 90 on August 4, will always be remembered for his contribution to cinema.......

The real Kishore Kumar no one knew

When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......

Sachin@50: 50 Interesting Facts

Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com On Monday, April 24, 2023, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar will be 50 years old. For those of us who first saw him stride onto a cricket field aged 16 back in......

BCCI committees for 2011-12

Following are the various committees and sub-committees of the Board of Control for Cricket in India for the year 2011-12, selected at its 82nd AGM, in Mumbai, on Monday. Working Committee for......

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