Dr Shreekant Sambrani pays tribute to Dr M S Swaminathan, the renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who passed away in Chennai last week. IMAGE: Prime Minister......
The ultimate consequences of Rahul Gandhi's yatra may be known only in 2024, points out Sudhir Bisht. IMAGE: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kollam, Kerala, September 16,......
The Ashokan Pillar in Kolhua, Bihar, is one of India's best maintained historical sites. All Photographs: Archana Masih/Rediff.com The Ashokan Pillar with a single lion stands gloriously......
Gota has to decide if he could order elder brother Mahinda's arrest as the agent provocateur of Monday's violence.Then he has to prepare for an interim government, in which no one would now want to......
With a nationwide lockdown in place, over 90 cities, including Delhi, recorded minimal air pollution in the last few days. IMAGE: An aerial view of CSMT area during nation-wide lockdown in wake of......
'Everybody knows that any solution would upstage and expose official bungling.''That is something Mrs Sitharaman's masters will not allow.''No matter how high the cost in human misery, they will......
While Hindware is expecting sale of its air purifiers to double this year, brands like Xiaomi, Blue Star and Daikin, too, are expecting significant rise in sales. As air quality in the Capital......
Firms are offering employees flexi hours; the demand for air purifiers, masks have skyrocketed. IMAGE: Delhi residents cover their face as smog covers Delhi's skyline. Photograph: Shahbaz Khan/PTI......
'One has to file not less than 37 returns per year for every ordinary business, and that too per state.''If you are doing businesses in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, you have to file 37x3......
Bharata Natyam legends Shanta and V P Dhananjayan discover they are a national sentation after their Vodafone ads.Nikita Puri encounters a couple who believe in breaking moulds. IMAGE: Shanta and......
'This was a film, a story that had never been told before.' IMAGE: Koji Yakusho in Perfect Days. For the last four-and-a-half decades German film-maker Wim Wenders has been making compassionate......
No film gets by without an adequately popular song album. Even though there is a growing misconception about the kind of songs and music that get people interested, with a tendency to focus more on......
If you are looking for a fluffy rom-com without much pravachan, Kushi is worth a watch, recommends Divya Nair. There is a magnetic quality about love stories involving disapproving parents and......
Samantha and Vijay Deverakonda have been shooting a song for their upcoming rom-com Kushi in Turkey. While the movie is creating the right kind of buzz, the focus for now seems to be on what......
Photograph: Kind courtesy Samantha/Instagram Samantha and Vijay Deverakonda obviously believe mixing work with a lot of fun. So while shooting a song for their rom-com Kushi in Turkey, they......
'I just played more flawless. I really didn't care, honestly. I played with no care, and that increased the level of tennis that I put out there.' IMAGE: Stefanos Tsitsipas raised his level and......
'This is like nirvana in the fact we’re home with our families, we sleep in our own beds, we eat home cooked dinners and we can still work in one degree or another from home.' IMAGE:......