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Blocked, Traced, Recovered: The Journey Of India's Stolen Mobiles

October 2025 marked a key month for the Sanchar Saathi app, with more than 50,000 missing and stolen smartphones traced and returned across the country in a single month, according to statistics......

How The World Uses ChatGPT

From writing emails to solving everyday problems, ChatGPT has quietly become part of daily life for millions. Around 10 per cent of the world's population now uses the AI tool. The findings are......

Kashmir Glows in Autumn Gold

Glimpses of Kashmir's autumn, captured through the lens of Umar Ganie, reveal the Valley awash in stunning shades of red and gold, turning Srinagar into a living canvas of chinar leaves and......

The Poet Who Stood With Deprived And Despairing

'A truly original Hindi writer whose writing no other author can match.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff The death of celebrated Hindi writer and Jnanpith awardee Vinod Kumar Shukla has......

Cloudflare outage hits X, ChatGPT, Google Cloud globally

A widespread internet outage struck several global digital platforms on Tuesday, leaving millions of users unable to access services like X, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Cloud, and......

Which Country Produces The Most Milk?

Milk is produced in abundance in India, the United States, Russia and a few other countries which drove global cow milk production this year and in previous years. India's massive 211.7 million......

What India Ordered On Blinkit In 2025

India's shopping carts on Blinkit turned into quiet storytellers this year. Some choices in folks' carts made perfect sense. Others were kinda hilarious. All of them revealed how unpredictable......

8 Countries With The Most Public Holidays

Across the globe, some countries believe life deserves frequent pauses -- enough days to celebrate faith, culture, history and togetherness. Here are eight countries that officially top the list......

India Leads World In Real-Time Payments

In its June 2025 review, the International Monetary Fund spotlighted India's Unified Payments Interface as the world's most dominant retail instant-payment network, moving more transactions than......

8 Of India's Oldest Companies

Which were India's first companies that still exist today? Many trace their origins to over a century back. These venerable organisations are business entities. But they chronicle the beginnings of......

10 Brilliant Dharmendra Movies

A career longer that most lifespans, a filmography of over 300 films. The media that gave Dharmendra labels like 'He Man' and 'Garam Dharam' did him no favours. Focusing on his looks and ignoring......

Why Anushka Signed Up For Ghaati

'She only chooses roles that push her as an actor, and this was one of them.' IMAGE: Anushka Shetty in Ghaati. Anushka Shetty has been getting raves for her new film Ghaati, with our review......

Kantara: A Legend Chapter-1: Awe And Wonder

Rishab Shetty's Kantara: A Legend Chapter-1 is an ambitious, bold update of the ideas of the first film on a much bigger canvas, discovers Arjun Menon. Kantara: A Legend Chapter-1 is a film......

Vash Level 2 Review: Chills And Thrills

Though Vash Level 2 doesn't deliver an absolute knock-out experience we would expect from a horror sequel, it has got enough zing to keep the franchise hurtling forward, applauds Mayur Sanap. A......

Tehran Review: Middling Movie About Middle East Woes

Tehran's dull treatment of a dry premise never makes us feel the complexity of the ongoing Middle East crisis nor the patriotic fervour in John Abraham’s voice, notes Sukanya Verma. After......

Joshua hands Paul savage sixth round knock-out

IMAGE: Anthony Joshua celebrates his knock-out victory over Jake Paul at Kaseya Center, Miami, Florida, on Friday. Photograph: Marco Bello/Reuters Former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua......

Caravaggio And Djokovic Reshaped The Light

Both Caravaggio and Djokovic entered worlds ruled by giants, shattered conventions with defiance, and redefined greatness within the rigid lines of their craft.One with a brush, the other with a......

Historic for India! Jaismine, Minakshi crowned world champs

Double delight for India as Jaismine, Minakshi crowned world boxing champions IMAGE: Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jaismine Lamboria beat Paris Olympics silver medalist Szermeta Julia to......

Nikhat Zareen dominates, Lovlina crashes out

IMAGE: Nikhat Zareen, centre, showcased her class once again as she outpunched USA's Lozano Jennifer. Photograph: Boxing Federation/X Star boxers Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain endured......

PIX: Usyk demolishes Dubois with fifth round knock-out

Oleksandr Usyk retains WBC, WBA and WBO belts and reclaims the IBF belt he vacated last year before a rematch with Tyson Fury. IMAGE: Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk celebrates victory over Britain's......