'Vaccine shortage can't be blamed on Adar Poonawalla'

'It was unfair to expect him to continue to keep on supplying vaccines without being given a firm commitment or a financial grant of any sort.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi is......

T V R Shenoy: Farewell to a very special friend

Mr T V R Shenoy, who contributed columns to Rediff.com from its birth, passed into the ages on Tuesday evening.As we grieve and mourn his passing, Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar bids adieu to an......

Can you deliver, Mr Kejriwal?

A week after taking office, Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers have ambitious promises to keep. Rashme Sehgal discusses the challenge that confront the Delhi chief minister. The eyes of 20 million......

Reforms won't be easy or painless!

'Let us also not expect that there will be a clean break with the past much though the new government might like to think about it. In a functional democracy that is neither feasible nor desirable.......

Charges of Favour to Reliance General Insurance: CBI probing former Irda chairman

Penalty for unapproved policy changes allegedly reduced from Rs 17,500 crore to Rs 20 lakh The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started a preliminary enquiry into allegations that the......

Charges of Favour to Reliance General Insurance: CBI probing former Irda chairman

Penalty for unapproved policy changes allegedly reduced from Rs 17,500 crore to Rs 20 lakh The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started a preliminary enquiry into allegations that the......

How crony capitalism is killing the Indian economy

One way to end cronyism in the allocation of natural resources is to move to transparent auctions, like it has happened in spectrum. In his 2012 book, Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma said that any......

'Today, brands live for quarters'

At the release of his autobiography, “If you can dream. . .” in Ahmedabad, veteran adman and founder of Ahmedabad-based Mudra advertising agency and Mudra Institute of Communications, A......

'I hope I don't repeat my old mistakes'

'I have an absolutely professional relationship, nothing personal, with Amitabh Bachchan.''I am the only person in the industry whom he never calls for home parties or festivals.''Unless we have......

Composer Aadesh Shrivastava dies of cancer

Bollywood singer-composer Aadesh Shrivastava, who was battling a relapsed cancer, passed away post midnight in Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Mumbai. He was 51. Shrivastava had been......

The Oldest Characters These Actors Have Played

Hrithik Roshan was just 32 when he played a grandfather-to-be in Krrish! Actors are often accused of not embracing their age. But there are occasions when they have essayed a character much......

'2007 had perhaps the best work of my life'

In an extensive and uncensored interview, Shah Rukh Khan talks to NDTV 24x7's Managing Editor Sonia Singh about politics, his fab abs, the recent smoking controversy, and his dreams.......