'Grave concerns' about Trump's mental stability: Harvard doctors

Three leading professors of psychiatry from America’s prestigious universities have written to President Barack Obama, expressing their “grave concern” over his successor......

Caste Is Missing In Prohibition Debates

The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that was linked to caste, is never raised in Indian debates and the disapproval of drink is almost universal, notes......

Type 1 Diabetes On Rise In India

India on average lost 44.85 years of a lifetime due to Type 1 diabetes in 2021. *IMAGE: In India, 818,620 people were living with Type 1 diabetes -- an increase of 5.1 per cent from 2020.......

COVID Deaths: Why India, WHO Are At Loggerheads

'If deaths had been properly reported, it would have helped contain the pandemic.'Rashme Sehgal reports. IMAGE: The cremation of those who died due to COVID-19 at the Masan Ghat in Varanasi, April......

Rajat Gupta pens inside story of his rise and fall

The memoir tells the story of his meteoric rise and equally dramatic fall. The memoirs of India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, who was charged in the largest insider trading case......

13 cities in India among world's most polluted

India has the highest rate of death caused by chronic respiratory diseases anywhere in the world. Image: High air pollution cuts most Indian lives by 3 years. Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters......

When R K Krishna Kumar Spoke To Rediff

R K Krishna Kumar, one of the stalwarts of the Tata group, passed away on Sunday, January 1, 2023, evening. A close lieutenant of then Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata, he spoke to Rediff.com's......

Too much optimism on inflation targeting is misplaced

Is the recent agreement between the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India to make inflation targeting the central bank's prime focus the way to go? Rediff.com will publish a series of......

'Zika not a reason to cancel Olympics'

IMAGE: Members of Team USA, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles and Ryan Lochte during their Road to Rio Tour. Photograph: Mike Stobe/Getty Images for the USOC. The widespread Zika virus outbreak in......

Medical experts want Rio Olympics delayed or moved due to Zika

IMAGE: A municipal worker stands next to a banner that reads, "Rio Carnival 2016" before spraying insecticide to prevent the spread of Zika's vector. Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters More than......