'But extremely difficult, expensive and time consuming to rebuild it.'
'Since the NDA took office in 2014, and aggressively since 2019, the Union government seems hell bent on centralising all power and resources, only to fail spectacularly.'
Keshav Prasad Maurya's election from Sirathu in Kaushambi will be among the keenly watched contests in UP. If he and the BJP win, will he be luckier this time?
A rejuvenated India shorn of Virat Kohli turned the tables on Australia to claim the second Test in Melbourne with a rousing eight-wicket victory within four days and breathe life into the series.
Despite near-term headwinds of rising input costs and the possibility of lower demand for products as Covid dented rural & urban India, and impacts both production & consumption, analysts remain bullish on stocks of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies and expect the index to relatively outperform its peers in the second half of fiscal 2021-22 (FY22). In the past one year, prices of key commodities such as groundnut oil, mustard oil, Vanaspati, soya oil, sunflower oil and palm oil have shot up in the range of 20 per cent to 60 per cent, data show. The FMCG sector macros in this backdrop, according to analysts, have further deteriorated because of weakness in consumer demand and likely margin pressure due to elevated crude oil, palm oil and global food prices.
Images from Day 2 of the fourth Test between England and India, at The Oval, on Friday.
Ajit Gandhi explains how healthy habits adopted during the pandemic can help us lead a healthier and environment. friendly lifestyle.
'His last journey was like putting out the lamps one by one in a temple at night.' 'It was like the soul slowly walking away from the body; it was so pure and peaceful...'
Who can resist good food? Not us for sure! In this series, we bring you the best of celebrity foodgasm moments. Prepare to drool :)
'Ranveer Singh is very lively on the sets. You don't feel the pressure when he's there.'
Will Pucovski rode his luck, but his 62 was the best return for an Australian opener in the series so far and helped his side into a strong position at the end of Day 1 of the third Test against India at the SCG.
Images from Day 3 of the second Test between Australia and India, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on Monday.
'My relationship with the Pataudi family was to help me to survive in 1971.'
The perfect routine already exists. It is the one designed by nature and is called the Circadian Rhythm. If we are able to align to this routine, according to the Circadian Rhythm, it will help restore, regain, and reset our health in a huge way.
'I was born a lower middle-class person, am one today and will die as one,' Billboard's International Power Player Devraj Sanyal tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
'I realised what a great leader he was by the way he took decisions to undertake the most-risky of missions.'
Rediff reader Shilpa Parasrampuria, 43, from Mumbai reveals how she lost 12 kilos in six months.
As the industrial era wanes, the network era looms, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Memories of a simple, yet amazing childhood, long lost, but never forgotten.' Vijay Menon takes us back to a time when overnight train journeys were the most exciting events of our lives.
'And because she was very close to Indira Gandhi, she was close to me.' 'Sonia is a wonderful person'
The Western powers appear to regard Delhi as the most logical destination in the region in these extraordinary times -- as a counterpoint to the ascendance of political Islam and a rising red star over Afghanistan, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'I see a lot of potential in new singers.' 'But the thing is, there is a lot of hard work.'
'Not a single bullet was fired, but we were warning the enemy not to continue with their antics!' IAF Veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe finds out how the Light Combat Helicopter, which will be inducted into the IAF on October 3, was designed, developed and flown.
Images from Day 2 of the third Test between England and India, at Headingley, Leeds, on Thursday.
Modi: Journey of a Common Man is blatant propaganda, feels Utkarsh Mishra.
'He must have had a gala time playing that part.' 'When I got a chance to do that in Toofaan, I absolutely relished it.'
From the winking girl to the dancing amputee, these people won over the Internet and our collective hearts.
Want to excel in your career? Don't know how to get to the top? Bipasha Basu shares some tricks and tips.
Rediff readers tell us what their mothers mean to them.
With International Women's Day around the corner, the actor shares tips for the modern woman.
At least 13 people, including the prime accused, have been arrested so far for allegedly lynching an All Assam Students' Union leader in Jorhat city, while the outfit on Tuesday vowed not to keep quiet until the culprits were given 'exemplary punishment.'
'As an actor he was surrounded in stardom, but as a politician he is humble'
Images from Day 4 in the first Test between India and New Zealand, at Green Park in Kanpur, on Sunday.
Laxmi Sorte and Kaustav Ghosh, who travelled across 29 Indian states and five Union territories in 101 days, recommend a list of lesser known places in India to add to your travel bucket list.
Nine members of a family were among the deceased in the first incident which took place around 11.15 pm on Wednesday, when Mumbai experienced heavy rains throughout the day, at the New Collector Compound on Abdul Hamid Road in the Malwani area of suburban Malad, the officials said.
'She seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet after telling different people different things.'
Thappad aspires to be Arth-worthy. Unfortunately, it doesn't make the cut, feels Rediff reader Sumeet Nadkarni.
The Indian IT services sector is scrambling to retain talent since digitisation-led transformation has increased the demand for a digitally skilled workforce. As a result, the pull for jobs for tech professionals is also coming from non-IT sectors, leading to higher attrition among IT companies. The average number of tech jobs from non-IT sectors has seen a 41 per cent uptick in March-May'21 versus March-May'19, according to data from Naukri.com.
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma answers your health queries.
India cricket captain Virat Kohli's wife and Bollywood actor Anuskha Sharma reacted strongly to former wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer's claims that the national selectors were getting her 'cups of tea' during the World Cup in UK earlier this year.
