Will Thiruvanathapuram Elect Tharoor A 4th Time?

24 hours before campaigning ends in Thiruvanathapuram, Archana Masih/Rediff.com discovers Shashi Tharoor and his BJP rival Rajeev Chandrasekhar are busy getting their message across to voters.......

Why BJP Is Focusing On These Seats

Some have been cherry-picked to assert the BJP's supremacy over its allies or, significantly, its leaders who charted an independent course in the recent past. IMAGE: Rekha Patra, the Bharatiya......

Meet The Youngest Dalit Lady Candidate

'If people don't see you, they might be hesitant, but once they see you, they are confident that this is the person they will vote for,' says political debutant Shambhavi Choudhury, 25, alumnus of......

Will NOTA See A Further Decline In 2024?

NOTA dropped from 1.08% in 2014 to 1.06% in 2019. IMAGE: Women constables dressed in traditional attire perform Nukkad Natak outside the Junagarh Fort in Bikaner, April 12, 2024 to spread voting......

e-Shram may open door to govt benefits for workers

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led central government will use the unorganised workers database — e-Shram portal — to provide the benefits of various government programmes to the......

India moved fewer people to non-agri jobs than most neighbouring nations

India has managed to move a smaller share of its working-age population away from farm-related work than many of its neighbours. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri......

Officials Prepare For Modi 3.0

Government departments have been tasked with identifying major goals, which will include annual targets from the financial year 2024-2025 to 2028-2029. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leader......

Ola Electric sees momentum continuing after record March

Led by Ola Electric, which registered an industry record of 53,186 vehicles in March, electric two-wheeler (e2W) penetration hit a record at 8.91 per cent — the highest ever for a month......

Taapsee's First Appearance After Shaadi

Producer Anand Pandit hosted a grand wedding reception for his daughter Aishwarya and her groom, Sahil, in Mumbai, and invited the who's who of Bollywood. Here's a look at the women who dazzled in......

'Four women in their 60s followed me...'

'One told me there that she had been abused by her father when she was nine years old. The other when she was 12.' 'In all these years, they had not been able to confide about it to their mothers......

'You've To Choose Your Battles Carefully'

'If you are a strong-minded, opinionated woman, scars are inevitable.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Geetika Tyagi/Instagram After speaking about her new film Yes Papa, about a survivor of child......

Review: This Dukaan Delivers Only Baloney!

Its callous perspective and comical treatment of a sensitive matter makes a complete hash of things, asserts Sukanya Verma. A group of heavily pregnant women holding big matkss next to their bare......

Olympic quotas far fetched after trap shooters disappoint

IMAGE: India's trap shooters Zoravar Sandhu and Prithviraj Tondaiman put on a disappointing show at the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship for Shotgun in Doha on Monday. Photograph:......

'Future is here': Vishy lauds Gukesh

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Michal Walusza for FIDE/X Indian teenager D Gukesh (17) has become the youngest player ever to challenge for the World Chess Championship title. He clinched victory in......

Candidates: Gukesh outwits Alireza, takes sole lead

Gukesh has 8.5 points out of a possible 13. He is a half point ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. IMAGE: India's 17-year-old Grandmaster D Gukesh is on the cusp of......

Vinesh, Reetika, Anshu secure Paris Olympics quotas

IMAGE: Vinesh Phogat secured her third straight Olympic quota, having featured in Rio Games (2016) and in Tokyo (2020) earlier. Photograph: Vinesh Phogat/Instagram Making a strong comeback to......

Can Gukesh maintain lead in Candidates' Chess?

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Michal Walusza for FIDE/X Teenaged Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh will have his task cut out against Firouzja Alireza of France in the penultimate round of the Candidates'......