After cuisine, it's foreign flowers which have hit the desi market in a big way. Carnation cuttings, bright Gerberas, Poinsettias, Alstroemeria and orchids, the demand for all these is gorwing in the Indian market, according to industry experts.
This star designer who has now found an audience on foreign shores, all thanks to her minimalistic style, and worship of Indian fabrics.
'So we automatically connect.' 'I can talk to her whatever I want to and she does the same to me.' 'She inspires me and gives me strength.'
Modi hit out at the Congress for its president Mallikarjun Kharge's attempt to play down his party's poor show in the polls by describing it as "small state elections".
In 1937, a hydrogen-powered German airship flying into New Jersey caught fire and crashed, killing 35 passengers on board. It was sort of a man-made disaster as some 100 people were loaded on to a balloon filled with the most flammable material in the universe. The airship was named Hindenburg. Eight decades later, in 2017, a graduate of international business management from the University of Connecticut founded a "forensic financial research" firm to specialise in spotting wrongdoings and frauds, or what it calls man-made disasters, at companies around the globe and take market bets against them.
The country will witness a mushrooming of technology start-ups over the next five years.
Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com travels to Pullampara to discover how it became India's first digital literate village.
The garden, nestled in the foothills of the Zabarwan mountain range overlooking the world famous Dal Lake, has 1.7 million tulips this unusually hot and dry spring.
Delhi, daddy issues, drivers, domestic help, politics, patriarchy, sexuality, sexism, choices, compromises, community, religion, real estate, motherhood, marriage -- Gulmohar offers a loaded, layered understanding of familial relationships and its indirect impact on the people at the periphery, notes Sukanya Verma.
Air India and Jet Airways flew tonnes of fresh flowers to Europe in the last 10-12 days, though their uplift is much less compared to rival carriers.
Had he not taken his final curtain call on April 23, 1992, Satyajit Ray would still, undoubtedly, have been making movies.
Glowing memories in England of the 2005 Ashes triumph in a series unanimously acclaimed as the greatest ever cannot obscure an unpalatable statistic for the nation's fans.
As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events.
Here's the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to a joint session of the United States Congress, delivered on Thursday.
Three years back, an MBA in petroleum studies from Dubai or Singapore was enough for a candidate to automatically enter the higher echelons of management at an oil and gas company, considering people with such a specialised degree was a rarity in India.
Divya is left speechless... What's Farhan doing in Jeddah? Kalki takes an auto...
The actress made for a beautiful bride in these stunning wedding looks.
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We invited readers to send in their interesting summer snapshots. Here are some more responses -- and you can share yours too!
India and Pakistan may be bitter enemies over the contentious Line of Control. But Pakistan is in love sunflowers from India.
Uttam's take on AAP's landslide victory in Delhi.
Many state governments are ready with policies to promote entrepreneurs, backed by funding plans
Can't step out owing to the coronavirus scare? Don't worry, here are some beautiful images from Srinagar's Tulip Garden.
Hats off to the designers who created these masterpieces.
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan called up MLAs considered close to Vasundhara Raje to ensure their presence at Monday's assembly proceedings, party sources said amid concerns that they could instead opt for events connected with the former chief minister's 'temple yatra'.
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As good as Mammootty is playing Sundaram, we see this facet of his performance through two lenses: That of Sundaram being an offset to whatever we know about James, and that of Mammootty doing quintessentially Tamil tics, including enacting scenes from old Tamil movies like solo plays, observes Rohit Sathish Nair.
China's hopes of a first grand slam finalist were crushed by two of the greats of the women's game on Thursday but Li Na and Zheng Jie's brilliant Australian Open run marked another step in the country's inevitable rise.
With his calm guidance, Ancelotti gave Vinicius the confidence he needed to flourish.
Gauri and Nainika's collection was inspired by the time they spent in their mother's garden.
The idea of the garden, spread over 30 hectares in the foothills of snow-clad Zabarwan range, was conceived to advance the tourism season in the valley by two months.
'Rakesh's life is hard, but he knows how to find joy.' 'He doesn't think his life's value comes from money. He sees no shame in his poverty.'
Opting for a career in floral designing is ideal for those who want to explore their creativity, finds Beverly Pereira
'It would be very difficult to relegate somebody, particularly from the Premier League, if the season hasn't played out'
The historic Mughal Gardens, with its lush green stretch and colourful blossoms, will be thrown open to public from Friday for the month-long annual festival christened as 'Rashtrapati Bhavan Udyanotsav'.
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