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Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

Modi's Water Man

Water is going to be a central part of the government's 2024 election campaign.And Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's work will be crucial for it. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com It's been......

Trump caught on tape asking to 'find votes' in Georgia

United States President Donald Trump, in an extraordinary one-hour phone call, told Georgia's election chief to reverse President-elect Joe Biden's win and urged him to "find" enough votes to......

Mahatma Gandhi's statue in US vandalised; envoy apologises

Unknown miscreants have vandalised the statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian embassy in the US with graffiti and spray painting, prompting the mission to register a complaint with the local......

Thousands protest across US major cities defying curfew

Americans, defying curfews in several cities including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington DC, protested, in some cases violently, against the custodial killing of African-American......

Native advertising turns money spinner for digital media

Advertising couched as editorial is working best on digital media across the world, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Almost every major news website in the world - BuzzFeed, Quartz or Hearst, for......

How America can revamp its rating agencies

Watch out! The Securities and Exchange Commission has the ratings agencies in its sites, and this time it means business. Or so an observer would be led to believe, judging from the strong words......

When top jobs stay in the family

Peter Chernin, Rupert Murdoch's closest lieutenant, last month announced he would step down from his role as president and chief operating officer of News Corp when his contract expires in June. He......

Financial crisis, legal boom

The mailboxes of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and Lehman Brothers are filling up with subpoenas demanding that the humbled institutions hand over vast stores of data, documents and electronic......

Compute your way through traffic

The Hairy Man Festival, the Austin Batfest and the U.S. Congress have two things in common: Any of them could leave you stuck in traffic, and they're all in the database at Inrix, a company that......

Oscars 2011: Winners at a Glance!

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards have been announced. There were quite a few surprises and many more expected nods. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold:Best PictureBlack SwanMike......

Djokovic shakes off hamstring issue to down Medvedev

IMAGE: Novak Djokovic celebrates winning his match against Daniil Medvedev during Day 7 of the 2023 Adelaide International at Memorial Drive in Adelaide, on Saturday. Photograph: Sarah Reed/Getty......

PIX: Teenager Fati lifts Barca to win; Inter down Udinese

IMAGE: Barcelona's Ansu Fati celebrates scoring their first goal with team-mate Lionel Messi. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters Barcelona teenager Ansu Fati scored twice to lead his side to a 2-1 win......

Aus Open PIX: Ruthless Djokovic, Serena, Zverev march forth

IMAGES from the Australian Open matches played on Tuesday. IMAGE: Novak Djokovic reacts winning a point during his first round match against Mitchell Krueger. Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images......

Bravehearts who battled injury to fight it out in the middle

Rajneesh Gupta salutes Tamim Iqbal's courage in the Asia Cup's opening game on Saturday and lists instances where cricketers braved injuries to battle it out for their teams. IMAGE: Bangladesh......

The Roger-Rafael show 'is going to be a freakin' amazing match'

IMAGE: Rafael Nadal (left) and Roger Federer hug at the net, after Nadal won their men's singles semi-final match at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tournament. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters Roger......

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