MSP, hiking 50% quota, VVPAT, no Agnipath: Congress rolls out manifesto

Right to apprenticeship, legal guarantee for MSP, passing a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 per cent cap on reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs, a nation-wide caste census and scrapping of......

How much will Congress's election guarantees cost?

‘Right to apprenticeship means that anyone below the age of 25 years with a diploma or other qualifications can demand an apprenticeship with a private, a public sector company or a......

NRIs: Pop Nationalism To Identity Supremacy

Brand India's societal divisions and distortions have remained as much relevant in 'liberal' America and Europe as it still is in the structurally stratified Indian society of the 21st century,......

'We are sitting on a time bomb'

'An earthquake of a slightly higher magnitude in the Western Himalayan region is going to be catastrophic -- not just because of the fragility of the region, but because of how densely we have......

Budget: Nothing but Housekeeping

The Budget would have been the perfect vehicle to introduce some bold initiatives.That opportunity has been lost through this Budget, observes Shreekant Sambrani. Illustration: Dominic......

Budget 2021: Sharper focus on health care likely

CII has also called for tax incentives for new health care projects and import duty relief for lifesaving equipment. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The pandemic is expected to bring a......

'It is a no-brainer that there will be a very sharp rebound next year'

'The CEA suggested that could be as high as 19 per cent.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   With little over a month remaining for the 15th Finance Commission to submit its report for......

If your bank goes bust, how much money will you get?

'The new ceiling will cover around 93 per cent of all deposit accounts, up from 90 per cent earlier,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   Finally, the deposit......

Ten 2018 Films I didn't like

Why these movies didn't impress Sreehari Nair... One or many of the films on this list would have made it to another critic's list of the Best Hindi Films of 2018. But I think we are living in too......

Review: School Bus does not have much of offer

The only novelty in School Bus is the much publicised casting of Kunchakko Boban as the cop investigating the case of the missing child, writes Paresh Palicha. There is a section of people who......