RS MPs sing, play guitar at colleagues' farewell

Parliamentarians on Thursday showcased their talent by singing movie and patriotic songs and playing the guitar at a cultural evening to honour retiring Rajya Sabha members. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

The Curious Seeker comes to New York

'I'll keep painting as long as I'm alive,' Madhvi Parekh, one of India's most influential painters, tells P Rajendran in New York. Photograph: Kind courtesy DAG/Facebook Madhvi, a village girl......

LS passes bill to remove Cong prez as trustee of Jallianwala Bagh memorial

The Lok Sabha on Friday passed 'The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (amendment) Bill, which seeks to remove the Congress president as a trustee, amid vociferous protests from the......

CWC authorises Rahul Gandhi to forge alliances with like-minded parties

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday chaired his first meeting of the newly constituted Congress Working Committee two days after the no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha which the......

'We can be a superpower only if every Indian is happy'

In our special year-end section, Rediff.com looks at people who wrote the India story this year. Udaya Kumar made history when his design was selected from 25,000 entries as India's symbol for......

Tourism sector looks up to CW Games

Terror threat, swine flu scare and hike in air fares hit the tourism sector hard in 2009 with number of foreigners visiting the country dropping by over six per cent but the tourism ministry is now......

Package for tourism sector soon

After the stimulus package for the India Inc, government is mulling a package, including luxury tax cut for the tourism and hospitality sector. "I have written to the prime minister seeking......

Mumbai terror attacks will hit tourism sector

At a time when the tourism sector is battling slowdown, terrorist attacks in Mumbai have cast a shadow on the industry and the hoteliers are expecting large scale cancellation of bookings,......