In the five years in politics Priyanka Gandhi has undeniably emerged as a thorn in the BJP flesh, notes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. It is time that this thorn is twisted a wee bit more when the elections have become far more uncertain than what it was when the Election Commission announced the poll schedule.
Scoop seems like they conclude he is but Vaihayasi Pande Daniel recommends that you watch the film to find out for yourselves.
Stories of friendship, former life and fights against the system dominate the OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
A fraudster in Britain, known as 'King Con', has claimed to have earned two million pounds by duping people, and boasted of bedding 2,500 women, just days after being released from prison.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
P V Subramanyam takes a hard look at the pros and cons of both options.
Offset home loans are available under different names. But do you know if they are beneficial to you or not? Read on.
Discover some knock-out looks from Mumbai Comic Con.
Over the past year, Amul has undergone a transformative journey, evolving from a dairy-centric entity to a comprehensive foods company. Since 2022, PepsiCo India, too, has embarked on extensive launches in the food category. Not to be left behind, ITC, which has been introducing an average of 100 fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) products across categories every year, has also launched a number of packaged food items.
Short Kut had the potential to be a genuinely funny one, and while it mostly flubs that promise up throughout, it does manage a few moments.
'He can be in one corner of the room and I will be in another corner, but I know if something were to happen to me, he would be the first person to come across because that's the connection we have.'
Once a quality stock has been bought, the next challenge is to hold on to it -- no mean feat in this age of information overload and incessant noise.
Ultimately, the choice between no-cost EMI and BNPL depends on an individual's financial situation, preferences, and ability to manage repayments responsibly.
If you have not yet filed an ITR for the 2022-2023 financial year, you can file a belated return.
Try to assess whether the broker has good knowledge of the prices prevailing in the area you are interested in, and is able to provide the pros and cons of various projects.
It also showed that a side placed 102nd in the FIFA World Rankings can thwart a team placed 77 places above them. And India did keep the mighty Aussies out for 50 minutes before a fatal error saw the Blue Tigers punished after all the good work.
rediffGURU Mohit offers advice on how you can manage your emotions and improve your personality to be more confident and positive.
'Nobody really talks about the middle of relationships or the mundane parts... (When the end comes) we think, "Wow, this is the worst time of my life. This is horrible. It's never been worse". But actually, I feel the endings are what makes us who we are.'
Investors can sell a part of the stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other securities held in their portfolios at a loss and use this loss to offset tax on the capital gains made on the sale of other securities.
'The Supreme Court has now demonstrated its capacity to right its own wrongs, and to place the rule of law above all else.'
rediffGURUS Ashwini Dasgupta, Kanchan Rai and Rajesh Nair offer important career advice.
The lives of the kids Deepa Bhatia portrays in the series are bleak, with small periods of sunshine when they get picked for an ad or serial, punctuating the longer periods of struggle, observes Deepa Gahlot.
In a bid to gain a bigger share of the customer's wallet, banks are ramping up their cross-selling initiatives.
Twice-fried plantains make a great base for any kind of topping, especially something with avocado in it.
Guneet Monga came to Mumbai at 21 and went on to carve a successful career as a film producer, winning an Oscar this year!
In recent times, more and more audit firms have challenged company managements, some going to the extent of resigning on the ground of incompatibility with what the management wanted or was doing. This, said Ajay Bhushan Pandey, chairman of the National Financial Regulatory Authority (NFRA), in a media interview, was a good sign. Now, the national accounting watchdog has turned the spotlight on audit firms themselves.
'The focus needs to shift towards the ability to collect payments, particularly in tier-3 to tier-4 areas where acceptance is still lacking.'
For more than a decade, sockpuppets - some of them being company employees - created 'puffery' around tycoon Gautam Adani, his family and the apples-to-airport group he helmed by adding non-neutral material and removing warnings from information on Wikipedia, the free internet-based encyclopedia has alleged. Adani, a first-generation entrepreneur, has lost over $70 billion in net worth and slipped to 25th rank on the world billionaire index from being Asia's richest and the world's third most wealthy businessman, in less than a month. This followed US short-seller Hindenburg Research accusing the group of accounting fraud, stock price manipulation and money laundering, allegations that the conglomerate has repeatedly denied, and threatened legal action.
"Modi has become very arrogant," the former deputy chief minister charged.
In a post on X, the Indian embassy in Israel has stated that it has been working constantly to help fellow citizens.
A young couple sharing a laugh - in the living room over a Polish joke book, on the beach, in the rain - with the tagline, "Made for each other", hung from billboards at prominent street corners from the 1960s to the 1990s. It was a campaign for one of the largest selling cigarette brands in India, Wills (Navy Cut) from the ITC stable, that resonated with a generation of smokers and non-smokers alike till the curtains came down on tobacco advertising in 2004. As we prepare to welcome 2024, ITC has metamorphosed from a tobacco giant into a conglomerate straddling multiple large-sized businesses. In the mind space of Gen Z or millennials, the company represents a gamut of branded products - from frozen food (ITC Master Chef), noodles (YiPPee!), and cookies (Sunfeast) to snacks (Bingo!) and notebooks (Classmate), and so on and so forth.
Choona is too slow, has redundant characters and needless complications, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'Planning for the transfer of assets to the next generation is an important aspect of financial and estate planning.'
'You have to fight your own battles and I fought mine.'
India has decided to temporarily relocate its embassy from the violence-hit Sudanese capital city of Khartoum to Port Sudan in view of the prevailing security situation in the African country.
Cardiac patients whose proposals for a regular health insurance plan get turned down should apply for a cardiac-specific plan.
Both partners need to compromise and work together for a successful and fulfilling marriage, advises rediffGURU Dr Ashish Sehgal.
Messi signed off for 2022 by hailing the year when he won the World Cup as one he "will never be able to forget".
It is time for the men's and women's professional tennis bodies to merge says former world number one Kim Clijsters.
Those who are returning will not be paying any fare and the government is bearing the cost of their return.
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