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Bengaluru Faces Urban Breakdown

Bengaluru is at a critical juncture, where its economic model, reliant on attracting and retaining skilled professionals, is directly threatened by a measurable decline in urban quality of life,......

How a Trump order shook Harvard's international students

A fire truck pulling outside; a friend urgently knocking at the door, and red & white lights of an emergency response vehicle. IMAGE: A view of the Business School campus of Harvard University in......

Trump slaps 26% reciprocal tariffs on India, 34% on China

US President Donald Trump announced a 26 per cent “discounted reciprocal tariff” on India, half of the 52 per cent levies imposed by India on American goods, as he described India as......

Trump's H-1B Policy Will Affect Desis

Indian Americans contribute approximately 5% to 6% -- roughly $300 billion -- in federal tax revenues annually. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com US President-elect Donald Trump recently......

How Dr Singh Changed Finance Minister's Role

'Suddenly we had a new comprehension of affairs, which reminded that the luxury of politics floated atop a foundation by economics.''Along with this, finance ministers became crucial in molding the......

India Has 73 Unicorns; RMGs Knocked Out

RMG firms Dream11, Games24x7, Gameskraft and MPL lost unicorn status after the gaming ban while fintech players led 11 new unicorns added in 2025. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff At least four......

Dixon Tech plans Rs 1K-cr facility near Chennai; to create 5K jobs

Electronics manufacturing services firm Dixon Technologies is setting up a Rs 1,000-crore facility near Chennai and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday.......

JSW breaks ground for 1,600 Mw power plant in West Bengal

The $24 billion JSW Group on Monday kicked off a 1,600 megawatt (Mw) power plant at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal — a project that had been waiting in the wings for......

Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs Bite Into Apple's India Growth Plans

Apple's ambitious strategy to expand iPhone exports, shift more production from China to India at a faster pace, and grow its domestic market hits a Trump-sized roadblock. Photograph: Kind......

India's ambitious chip dream all set to be real

Two full-fledged semiconductor fabrication plants are going to come up in India very soon entailing multi-billion dollar investment besides several chip assembly and packaging units, Minister of......

2025's Big Hits So Far

The first half of 2025 gave us a handful of good movies. How did the box office fare? Well, the second half of the year looks much better than the first! A look at the hits so far. ......

This Film, Not War 2, Rules Box Office!

IMAGE: Kiara Advani and Hrithik Roshan in War 2. Mahavatar Narsimha has broken several records and is rewriting history at the box office as it emerges as big a blockbuster as 1975's Jai Santoshi......

Hindi Cinema's New Mogul

'We don't make films for profit and that's exactly why profit follows.' IMAGE: Shraddha Kapoor in Stree 2. The hit-machine. That is the moniker for Dinesh Vijan's Maddock Films. In a market where......

Review: Sachin A Billion Dreams: When God speaks to us in PR-speak

'2 hours and 20 minutes later, I walked out of Sachin: A Billion Dreams learning not one additional thing about Tendulkar: Not one factoid, not one statistic.' 'Maybe it's convenient filmmaking,......

'Corruption Is No Longer A Bad Word'

'When India opened its doors to the world, moving away from an agrarian to a market economy, everything, whether life or love, was commodified.' IMAGE: Nana Patekar and Rekha in Yatra. In the......

Will India's Olympic dreams depend on cricket?

Hailing cricket's inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president's post frontrunner Sebastian Coe says the move will open up new markets, which will be......

From Yoga to Bollywood, T20 is America's next obsession

IMAGE: General view of India fans in the stands before the match. Photograph: Ash Allen/Reuters Indian-American businessman Sanjay Govil is convinced Twenty20 cricket can be the next big cultural......

JioStar to Earn 6,000 Cr from IPL

With 90% of the inventories sold out, JioStar expects to ring in more than a 58% increase over last year's IPL, when it clocked Rs 3,900 crore. IMAGE: Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL 2024.......

'Media and technology like a helmet in your cricket bag'

IMAGE: Ravi Shastri with Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill. Photograph: BCCI 'Media and technology are like helmets in a cricket kit,' former India captain and coach Ravi Shastri said on Friday,......

'Virat has dealt with hopes, dreams of a billion people, deserves every accolade'

IMAGE: Hailing Virat Kohli’s stellar career, Brendon McCullum said the star Indian batter deserves every accolade he gets. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters Former New Zealand skipper and......