Kerala focuses on cleaning, rehabilitation amid epidemic threat

Floods in Kerala pose a great challenge to the state health authorities as they struggle to check a possible outbreak of epidemics, a problem associated with the deluge, official sources said......

Football match to build bridges with African students

Irmon, a Zimbabwean student studying business administration at a private university in Greater Noida, loves Indian food and music but feels tired of being addressed as an “African......

11 Indian lensmen in top photo award race

Eleven Indian photographers have been named on the shortlist of the world’s biggest photography competition, the Sony World Photography Awards 2015.The award, which recognises the world's......

Students left in lurch as UGC, Delhi university spar over FYUP

The fight over FYUP is between a highly controversial decision taken during the United Progressive Alliance rule and how the National Democratic Alliance government perceives it and how it is......

An uphill climb for XM-Sirius merger

In February, when Sirius Satellite Radio Chief Executive Mel Karmazin announced plans to merge his company with rival XM Satellite Radio, he pegged the chances of winning deal approval from......

Mukesh Ambani on his childhood, youth

If Dhirubhai Ambani was a larger-than-life patriarch and Anil was the public face of Reliance, Mukesh Ambani was an enigma. Those who knew him well credited him with leading Reliance's......

To allow caste to overwrite merit is shameful

The caste system is dead. Long live the caste system. V P Singh might be smiling now, but the curses of thousands, nay millions, of Indians denied access to higher education because of this goddamn......

DD, the bad loser

So they are at it again; DD (Doordarshan), a bad loser, using the might of the entire Indian executive to squash a small guy from Dubai who was smart enough to strike a television deal that came......

Why Abhishek Bachchan will never act in an adult comedy

And why comedy is a serious, serious business. Abhishek Bachchan, in conversation with Jahnavi Patel/Rediff.com. “If anybody asks me boring questions, you all will be escorted out of the......

Chak De's Sandia in a chat

She was the one who uttered the ironic 'difference between a Tamil and Telugu is same as between a Punjabi and Bihari," inthe film Chak De! India. In real life too, Sandia Furtado, who played......

Sreesanth escaped due to vacuum of law: Former Delhi CP Neeraj Kumar

"The judge said special cell has done excellent work...taken great pains to expose this racket, but in absence or vacuum of law, I am not in a position to hold anyone of them guilty and sentence......

Cricket in Olympics: Multi-billion dollar broadcast market, BCCI's push and ICC pitch perfect presentation

IMAGE: Cricket’s inclusion in the 2028 LA Olympics was an outcome of a ‘pitch perfect’ presentation alongside several major contributing factors. Photograph: Adnan......

India's young players must focus on singles, says Paes-Bhupathi

'We have not had a quarter-finalist in a Grand Slam of the singles since Ramesh Krishnan.' IMAGE: Leander Paes said the overall growth of tennis in India had shown improvement but it would take......

FIFA opens disciplinary proceedings against Uruguay

IMAGE: Uruguay's Luis Suarez reacts after a missed chance. Photograph: Francois Nel/Getty Images FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez, Diego Godin,......

AIFF Polls: Kalyan ahead of Bhutia as football body set to get its first 'Player President'

Photograph: Kalyan Chaubey/Twitter Winds of change were blowing over the All India Football Federation on the eve of its polls as the sports body braced up to elect a former player as its......