India sees new single-day spike as Unlock 1 to begin next week

The nationwide tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 2.17 lakh on Thursday with a record number of over 9,000 new cases getting detected and several states reporting their highest one-day......

India's first 'books village'

Bhilar, a strawberry farming hub in Maharashtra, has been transformed into India's first 'books village', discovers Ranjita Ganesan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com It is the fifth visit to......

'India must stop further roll out of Aadhaar'

The protection of individual security and privacy is critical to building safe online systems, say Mitchell Baker and Ankit Gadgil. Imagine your government required you to consent to ubiquitous......

President's address to the Parliament

Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......

Space tech firms urge PM to expedite approvals, fine tune rules

Space technology entrepreneurs, including Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, on Monday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expedite regulatory approvals, provide his personal......

What Brought Economy to Its Knees

A combination of demonetisation, a poorly and hurriedly implemented GST, and more recently the "botched up" lockdown of the economy to control the spread of Covid has brought the economy to its......

RERA: Only 22% happy with grievance redressal system

Around 70 per cent of consumers are aware of realty law RERA and five out of six homebuyers seek grievances redressal through this legislations, according to a survey by Omidyar Network India and......

Cash Crisis: Aaj ki Taaza Khabar

At ATMs, as a step to avoid getting Rs 2,000 notes, people are withdrawing Rs 1,900 in Rs 100 notes and then putting another request for the balance Rs 600, so that they remain within the limit of......

Players can return home but must serve quarantine: Hockey India SOP

'Homesick' players can go back to their natives but will have to serve a 14-day mandatory quarantine period before rejoining camp, according to the Hockey India Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)......