Is Tourism Destroying Goa?

Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and......

Bhima Koregaon: NIA charges Stan Swamy, 7 others with waging war

The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a supplementary charge-sheet against eight people, including activists Gautam Navlakha and 82-year-old Father Stan Swamy, for their alleged......

'Chanting Ambedkar's name makes Dalit leaders cross over to BJP'

'The BJP stems from the RSS that craves, notwithstanding its myriad camouflages, to re-establish their supremacist regime.''They believe in everything that India had in its ancient 'Vedic' past,......

New lamps for old, but the genie's missing

Times without count we have bought more complex procedures in the name of simplification, says Shreekant Sambrani. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com.     I went to renew my driving......

The Big Mac Inflation Index

The ever-astute Ravi Matthai, Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1971, offered me a basic salary of Rs 1,000 per month on my return from the United States.I doubt if IIMA......

Amul sacks R S Sodhi as managing director; Jayenbhai Mehta gets interim charge

In a sudden development, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), which markets its products under the brand name 'Amul', on Monday ousted its long-serving Managing Director......

'Economy is already in recession'

'When you have both cancer and fever, you cannot have just paracetamol. You have to give paracetamol for the fever and chemotherapy for cancer.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi,......

Sachin Bansal is back as CEO, this time at a microfinance company

Bansal has picked up a majority stake in Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services, a company which runs microfinance institution Chaitanya India Fin Credit. Billionaire Sachin Bansal is......