Why Great Men Worship Light of Asia

Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V......

How can you measure democracy?

There is a vocal constituency of educated, well-to-do, articulate Indian elites who would rather go with the idea that too much democracy is a liability.That India needs a spell of benevolent......

MHA nixes list of non-Swadeshi items for CAPF canteens

Stating that action is being initiated for the 'lapse', Union home ministry officials said there were discrepancies in the list issued by the Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar (central police welfare......

Climbers recover 7 bodies near Nanda Devi peak

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police on Sunday recovered seven bodies believed to be that of foreign mountaineers who had gone missing on way to the Nanda Devi East peak in Uttarakhand last month, an......

Q1FY24 results: Revenue growth of early birds at a 10-quarter low

The Q1FY24 earnings season has started on a dismal note for corporate India. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The early-bird companies’ revenue growth has been at a 10-quarter low,......

More than skin-deep: Nifty Next 50 complexion to get a shade of difference

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) Nifty Next 50 Index could undergo large-scale changes if the proposed tweaks to its computation methodology get implemented. Photograph: Francis......

FMEG: Most brokerages positive on cable & wires business

With raw material prices rising sequentially in Q4 FY23, margins of fast moving electrical goods (FMEG) companies could witness pressure as they refrain from hiking prices and demand remains soft.......

15 more firms selected under PLI scheme for white goods

As many as 15 companies, including Adani Copper Tubes, LG Electronics and Wipro Enterprises, with committed investment of Rs 1,368 crore, have been selected as beneficiaries under the PLI scheme......

'Actors these days don't have unique voices like Amitabh'

'Dubbing for Rajiv Gandhi was very challenging.' 'Amitabh Bachchan told me, "I don't appreciate other people doing my voice".' Midway through Rediff.com's interview with Patcy N, Chetan Sashital......

On this Day: Birth of a chess legend; India lift Asia Cup

  IMAGE: Garry Kasparov during the World Chess Championships against Vladimir Kramnik at the Riverside Studios, London, in October-November 2000. Photograph: Andrew Redington/ALLSPORT/Getty......