West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Thursday said he will not be cowed down by "engineered narratives" and the "truth shall triumph" after Trinamool Congress leaders claimed that a woman working......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday termed the cancellation of over 25,000 school jobs as 'gross injustice' and alleged that it was a ploy by the Bharatiya Janata Party to stop......
No government in the past initiated the process of policy making for its next tenure even before going in for elections. Once the Model Code of Conduct is enforced by the Election Commission,......
'The Congress is trying to reinvent itself -- the caste census demand, OBC emphasis, the anti-corporate thrust, especially on Adani etc -- all this is not standard Congress strategy.' IMAGE:......
'There was a huge difference between the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2020 assembly elections in Bihar.''Between 39/1 in 2019 to almost 50-50 in late 2020, Bihar had already moved.' IMAGE: Rashtriya Janata......
The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is considering raising the monthly minimum wage ceiling from Rs 15,000 now to improve the coverage and bring millions of informal workers under its......
The new government that presents the full Budget for 2024-2025 in July should be ready to restructure the way divestment is managed and implemented, proposes A K Bhattacharya. Illustration:......
Questions will be raised over why those changes take place and whether non-economic factors are at play, says A K Bhattacharya. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com India's gross domestic......
'...which is possible through flexicap and multicap funds.''The latter has a better balance between large, mid and smallcap stocks.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The largecap space has......
Whether it was the MGNREGS or the NFSA or the Aadhaar-based DBT scheme for cash transfer, the Modi government has built on the basic architecture created by the Singh government. Policy makers in......
''My respect for Irrfan has grown 100 times now when he is no longer with us.' IMAGE: Sutapa Sikdar with Irrfan. Photograph: Kind courtesy Babil Khan/Instagram On April 29, 2020, Irrfan Khan moved......
''I received many threatening calls and letters.''A fatwa was issued against me.' IMAGE: A young Salma Agha. Photograph: Kind courtesy Salma Agha/Instagram She became a household name in 1982,......
'One told me there that she had been abused by her father when she was nine years old. The other when she was 12.' 'In all these years, they had not been able to confide about it to their mothers......
'If you are a strong-minded, opinionated woman, scars are inevitable.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Geetika Tyagi/Instagram After speaking about her new film Yes Papa, about a survivor of child......
'I never had any nakhras, never threw tantrums, so I got along with all my heroes.' IMAGE: Jeetendra and Mumtaz in Roop Tera Mastana. Jeetendra and Mumtaz were both excellent dancers, so it was......
Just as the umpire's decision is no longer final, what is disdainfully rejected is the age-old dictum that the game should be played and watched in the spirit of the game, sighs Uddalok......
IMAGE: Jharkhand's Robin Minz, 21, went for 18 times his base price of Rs 20 lakh with as many as four IPL franchises bidding to hire him. Photographs: Robin Minz/Instagram Jharkhand's......
IMAGE: The Eden Gardens crowd lent their voice to South Africa during their semifinal against Australia. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters South Africa's power-packed batting unit suffered a......
Photograph: Kind Courtesy Sunil Chhetri/Instagram By his own admission, Indian football talisman Sunil Chhetri is in the 'bonus period' of his illustrious career, but he has not set any retirement......