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PIX: President Murmu confers Bharat Ratna awards

President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday conferred Bharat Ratna on former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar......

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......

Time to speak up: What women want from elections

Ahead of the upcoming elections, political parties have started announcing incentives to benefit women, but what do women truly seek for genuine gender parity, asks Nivedita Mookerji.......

All you need to know about Bharat Ratna MS Swaminathan

Agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan's research as a plant geneticist addressed the issue of food insecurity and helped small farmers augment their income by enhancing productivity. IMAGE: In his......

How Can Congress Defeat Modi?

The most important lesson is that you have to build your political proposition, and sell it yourself.You can't leave it to the courts, media, NGOs and civil society and expect them to play the role......

Share of urban women with salaried jobs at 6-year low in Q2: PLFS

As more companies ask their employees to return to office after the pandemic, the share of women employed in regular salaried jobs in urban India decreased from 54 per cent in the first quarter to......

Ambani sets goals for children; cites Messi to explain leadership

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has a pan-India 5G mobile network rollout plan by 2023-end, chasing more ambitious goals in retail and making Reliance India's greenest corporate as goals for his three......

What's next for India with FASTag technology

'EV-charging is the next big opportunity after fuelling' Kindly note the image has only been published for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy Pixabay Months after announcing its......

How India Can SHOCK-PROOF Economy

Since jobs will remain scarce for the foreseeable future, an unemployment allowance should be the next big social-security initiative, suggests T N Ninan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Mukesh Ambani pitches for subsidised smatphones

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Wednesday pitched for using the USO Fund to subsidise smartphones for select groups to help penetrate the digital revolution and said India should make the rollout of......

10 Lovely Stories From Across The World

After an interruption of two years, the Berlin Film Festival returned in full force. A range of remarkable films were show, from new discoveries, return of old masters and a celebration of classic......

Is Fahadh Faasil India's Finest Actor?

As Fahadh Faasil turns 39 on August 8, Subhash K Jha looks back at his favourite films featuring the brilliant actor. Maheshinte Prathikaaram, 2016 Five years before Fahadh Faasil and......

'Women have no way to express their pain and sorrows'

'When a woman gets married, she leaves her village, her friends and family.''In her new home, she will make friends, but they can never replace those she left behind.' IMAGE: Vinamrata Rai as......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 50 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

Shyam Benegal: The Girish Karnad I Knew

'He had a continuing interest in life, people, and the society in which he lived,' remembers Shyam Benegal, who collaborated with the polyglot playwright and actor through the 1970s and remained......

Slum Soccer changing lives of these kids

Nagpur-based Slum Soccer is transforming the lives of slum children with the help of football, writes Geetanjali Krishna. Photograph: Kind courtesy www.slumsoccer.org Pankaj Mahajan owes his......

India's Sporting Legacy: Yes, We Can!

'I have grown up in an environment where the dominant narrative of Indian sporting achievement was -- We can't.''These achievers have fought hard, built on each other's body of work and knowledge,......

Want to join the WWE? Listen to The Great Khali

'Olympic wrestling is like an old Nokia phone.''WWE is like an iPhone.'The Great Khali's academy turns pro-wrestling dreams into reality, reports Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: The Great Khali with Jinder......

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