You went too soon, Manohar Parrikar

Nitin A Gokhale, Co-founder, BharatShakti.in and long-time Rediff.com contributor, remembers a most unusual politician. Photograph: Reuters Our first conversation began with a misunderstanding. In......

Jio's plan to make India '2G-mukt' will hit Vodafone Idea hard

Jio is planning to win over 350 million 2G feature phone users by launching a smartphone at a fraction of the current cost. Mukesh Ambani’s plan to make India ‘2G-mukt’ will hit......

How Kerala floods will impact India Inc

'Kerala isn’t as dependent on agriculture like Bihar or Odisha or even other southern states.''Economic losses would not be too intense, unlike other states.''The floods could, at best,......

It makes sense to invest in gold now

Gold looks cheap compared to the stock markets that are highly overbought at the moment.Puneet Wadhwa reports. Gold prices have outperformed the markets -- S&P 500 -- thus far in this century......

RBI rate cut: Why it's good news for investors

Higher rural incomes, pay commission benefits, and lower interest rates are key positives: Analysts The markets might have been unimpressed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s rate cut of......