Communal Violence: IT Hub Gurugram Bunkers Down

As its backyard remains embroiled in tension, Gurugram is exercising caution. IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel deployed at Badshahpur in Gurugram, August 2, 2023, after Monday's clash between......

'Leave or...': Migrants live in fear amid Haryana violence

Scared by the violence, auto-rickshaw driver Rehmat Ali is thinking of going back home to West Bengal. IMAGE: Migrants wait at a bus stop in violence-hit Nuh district. Photograph: ANI Photo......

Khalistan Tiger Force chief shot dead outside gurdwara in Canada

Canada-based chief of banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) Hardeep Singh Nijjar, one of India's most-wanted terrorists who carried a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, was shot dead outside a......

SPOTTED! Xi Jinping Out Of China At Last!

After the outbreak of the pandemic in the country he has ruled with an iron hand in recent years, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist party of China, has mostly stayed put in Beijing.......

Why are foreign banks marching out of retail banking?

Foreign banks set the template in consumer banking in its infancy, but have almost vacated this booming space. Raghu Mohan reports. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com On March 8, Axis Bank......

Is Gurugram going the Kolkata way?

Militant labour policies compounded a poor security environment for capital in West Bengal and encouraged the business community to relocate. constraining the private sector’s right to hire......

How F C Kohli and TCS conquered the world

Shivanand Kanavi salutes the visionary IT leader F C Kohli who passed into the ages recently. IMAGE: Faqir Chand Kohli. All photographs: Kind courtesy Shivanand Kanavi   Part 1: The......

India's 20-21 GDP growth to slow down to 4.8%: UN report

India's GDP growth for the current fiscal is expected to slow down to 4.8 per cent, a UN report has said, warning that the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to result in significant adverse economic......

Mohalla Assi Review: All sound, no fury

'Philosophy, politics and practicality cross paths in Mohalla Assi's ambitious premise.''Except it is directed in such an unwieldy fashion that instead of rich satire, what emerges is a lumbering......

Review: Gurgaon is supremely entertaining

Director Shanker Raman, with an appetite for noir and a natural temperament for fast-cutting, takes you so swiftly and so deeply inside Gurgaon's anomie that you may mistake his vision of the city......

When Kamal Haasan took Rajesh Khanna for a film...

Kamal Haasan's shares his memories of the superstar on Rajesh Khanna's 74th birth anniversary on December 29. Not many know that Rajesh Khanna shared a good rapport with Kamal Haasan and that they......

'Karan Johar said he was blown away by our performance'

'We have been getting e-mails for assignments and events. People from random islands, like Seychelles, called us to perform for India's independence day. It's crazy to see how the internet affects......

When Yash met Mahi

IMAGE: Yashasvi Jaiswal greets Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Photograph: BCCI/IPL   Two cricketers with modest origins met for the first time a couple of days ago. One raised in Ranchi, who worked as......

Premier League champs Liverpool end 30-year wait

IMAGE: Liverpool fans celebrate outside Anfield Stadium after their team won the Premier League title following Chelsea's win over Manchester City on Thursday. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images......

Remember these sporting moments?

As we sit at home and miss live action, the wondrous phenomenon of sport has delivered so many past glories that we will probably never run out of things to see, recalls Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE:......

PICS: Manchester United beat AC Milan on penalties

IMAGE: Manchester United's David De Gea and Juan Mata celebrate after victory over A C Milan in the International Champions Cup match at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Photograph: John......

PIX: England erupts with joy as team reaches World Cup semis

IMAGE: England fans celebrate while watching England take on Sweden in the World Cup quarter finals.Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images It might not have triggered the earthquake sensors, but the......