How Urban Flooding Affects Lives

Year by year, our cities remain defeated in the face of weather conditions, costing us time, money, resources and often lives, observe Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy. IMAGE: Parked vehicles......

Government Cracks Down On FCI Racket

'The corruption charges in FCI are not the first and won't be the last.' Kindly note the image has only been published for representational purposes. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters A few weeks ago,......

Antibodies that can neutralise Omicron, other variants identified

Scientists have identified antibodies that neutralise Omicron and other variants of coronavirus by targeting areas that remain essentially unchanged as the virus mutates. Image used for......

'It's a viral pandemic with a diabetes pandemic'

''COVID-19 and diabetes have a very intricate relationship.''People with diabetes tend to get the most severe forms of COVID-19.' IMAGE: An NDRF team evacuates a COVID-19 patient during a rescue......

'The agenda is 'insurance for all by 2047''

'If you want it to grow well and serve the true needs of the economy, it needs a lot of freedom and flexibility, which comes in terms of the reform objective set by the regulator.' IMAGE: Shoppers......

'Current bull run calls for caution'

'It could tempt investors to pick stocks that are not fundamentally sound.'Ashley Coutinho listens in. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit saw some of......

With draft rules India takes first step to drone deliveries

India took the first step towards legalising drones by officially publishing draft rules for drone operations in the Official Gazette on Friday. The rules, termed The Unmanned Aircraft System......

Doctors, lawyers and academics on strike

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com I stare stupefied at headlines like these: One from last June said, 800,000......

Review: Azhar: Such a wasted chance!

Emraan Hashmi and director Tony D'Souza try hard, and their effort shows. But Raja Sen wishes he could have said the boys played well. When news of the match-fixing scandal broke, my very first......

Review: Jazbaa is a sloppy green mess

Jazbaa is a mercifully brief movie, just about two hours long, but that’s about it in terms of the good part, warns Raja Sen. In many ways, Jazbaa is the Irrfan Khan acid test.  Not that......

Review: Barfi! makes us BELIEVE

Anurag Basu's Barfi! is like finding bliss in cinema, writes Sukanya Verma.Jerry Maguire pointed it out long ago. We *do* live in a cynical world. And the worrying part is that it's not an......

Wimbledon PIX: Djokovic, Barty advance; Jabeur makes history

Images from Day 7 of the 2021 Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in London, on Monday. Djokovic rolls into quarters with Garin thrashing IMAGE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic......

I would love to be a coach, mentor or batting consultant: Sehwag

- 'What is happening is that the guys in power introduce names to the selectors and the selectors then act according to these people's whims.' - 'I was just playing my game and not thinking that I......

Sri Lanka score thrilling win

Scorecard Sri Lanka scored an amazing come-from-behind victory in the second one-day international, beating India by five runs, in Rajkot on Sunday. The victory gave the visitors a 1-0 lead in the......

'Tendulkar has lost his fighting abilities'

Readers' responses toThe naked and the dead feature: It is SPOT ON.I feel we r saying this day only because of our seniors (namely Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman).Please make no......