As Kolkata goes to polls under a heavy security cover, Indrani Roy Mitra analyses the dissent within the CPI-M and the 'alternative' of Trinamool.
The former finance minister's only child was arrested at Chennai airport.
In an interview, Ravi Venkatesan, chairman Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd, spoke to rediff.comabout Gates, his insatiable curiosity and indomitable courage to take risks.
Even while the entire world is grappling with a downturn, we are maintaining a solid growth rate of 6 to 7 per cent. That's simply commendable.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid rich tribute to veteran actress Suchitra Sen.
Corruption is an endemic part of the system, so why should Satyam be subject to higher ethical standards by auditors, bankers, etc. than some other company?
A promising young actor suffering from depression has had his life laid bare for the grubby public to paw through. An ordinary family has been pitched into the middle of a nightmare of an investigation and arrested for no reason discernible at present. And a young actress has had her reputation, and probably career, destroyed so that TRP ratings can soar, notes Sherna Gandhy.
Pasbola had a number of queries about the nails of the corpse found at Gagode Khurd. Did it have nails? Nails, in a case of strangulation, are key because they often have particles and skin beneath them to show the victim had been grasping something as s/he was strangled.
The journey of getting used to a new way of life -- without domestic help, without the necessity of dressing up to step out and just staying cooped up indoors -- has been out of the ordinary, equal parts good, bad and ugly.
Nasscom chairman Ganesh Natarajan on Bill Gates' legacy.
INX Media, the company set up by Indrani Mukherjea, wife of ex-Star Group CEO Peter Mukherjea, has roped in three top advertisers -- Vodafone, Reliance Industries and Future Group -- for their Hindi entertainment channel 9X. Each of these advertisers are believed to be paying Rs 35-40 crore (Rs 350-400 million) for a three-year contract. The television broadcaster has formed Club INX, which will include corporates keen to advertise on the channel.
In his petition, Karti contended that the July 18 circular had been issued arbitrarily and without jurisdiction by the Foreigner Regional Registration Officer and The Bureau of Immigration under the Union home ministry at the behest of different agencies to prevent him from travelling abroad.
In an e-mail interview with Senior Associate Editor (features) Indrani Roy Mitra, OnTrac's director Ravi Venkatesam throws light on his company's modus operandi, people it trains and also on the future of the Indian BPO industry.
Indrani Mukerjea is the founder and the newly-appointed CEO of INX Media. She also heads INX News. The youngest woman to head a media group in the world, Indrani Mukerjea spoke to Sayantani Kar on INX's bouquet of channels that will be launched in the next one-and-a-half years.
Rediff.com's Indrani Roy tracks the developments in West Bengal where 17 Lok Sabha seats are polling in the last phase.
Find out who, according to you, was India Fashion Week's top model.
An interview with former IIT-ian and corporate head honcho Nabankur Gupta.
A small investor should have a mixed basket of equity and debt.
Excerpts of an interview with Sashi Krishnan, CEO, DBS Chola MF.
Foreign funds are picking up just under half of the equity in INX Media
The actor ties the knot with the daughter of a Chennai-based businessman.
An interview with Mathew Eipe, executive director & president (chemicals), Godrej.
Sources told Rediff.com that the terrorist captured alive provided information about the absconding terrorists.
He was being treated for liver cancer.
Madhur Jaffrey talks about her early years, and more.
Now recognised as a mature actress, Konkona talks about her upcoming projects.
The actress cum activist talks about Sania Mirza, films and more.
Designers and models weign in on their preferences.
'We should let the dust settle and see how the political equation unfolds in Assam'
The software had, perhaps unknown to Dr Tripathi, tracked the changes he had made. The 'morph track' feature of the software provided a trail of what had been done and also indicated that the doctor had, it seemed, opted to morph Sheena's face with the provided skull, much in the same manner that Fantamorph can turn a woman into a cheetah.
Chidambaram, 74, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on August 21 and is lodged in Tihar jail under judicial custody in the corruption case.
Right from the word go, Bijoya Sawain's focus was on teaching students good manners and behaviour, the difference between right and wrong, the value of cleanliness, integrity, honesty and so on.
This has come at a time when Maria is personally heading investigations in the Sheena Bora murder.
'Could the Khar police and the CBI have tinkered with the driver's call data records?' 'And did their fiddling with the information not make it that they were tampering with the lives of people that were in the balance as a result of this case?'
Election officials said 40 per cent votes were cast for the 93 seats in Bihar and 25 per cent for the 28 in Jharkhand till late afternoon.\n
He said the plea pertained to his liberty, which was 'illegally curtailed'.
As many as 40 pro-Telangana students were on Tuesday taken into preventive custody in different parts of the city even as tension prevailed on the Osmania University campus with the protesting students indulging in stone throwing on security forces.
An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit Myanmar, tremors of which shook the northeast, several parts of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and even Delhi and NCR on Wednesday.
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