What is currently perceived as a massive, low-tech liability could become a high-value, export-oriented economic engine, points out Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff When I......
'The question for the TMC is not whether it can hold its bastions, but whether it can expand effectively into regions where the BJP already possesses a good ecosystem.' IMAGE: West Bengal Chief......
'This election was won because of Nitish Kumar's face and his policies.' IMAGE: A poster of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar displayed outside the Janata Dal-United office in Patna. Photograph:......
'Rahul Gandhi's problem is that he doesn't think big.''He looks more like an activist, while politics is like a game of chess. You attack and then defend and have a game-plan.' IMAGE: Congress......
The BJP's MoSha leadership are past masters in encouraging defections from their allies if it helped their party capture the chief minister's chair.In Bihar, they are not sure if JD-U MPs and MLAs......
The Noida International Airport (NIA), being developed as a greenfield aviation hub in Jewar, Gautam Buddh Nagar, is on track to begin operations by the end of this year. IMAGE: Noida......
India's labour landscape is undergoing one of the biggest transformation in decades. The government has consolidated 29 pre-Independence and early post-Independence labour laws -- many of them......
Overall hiring volumes grew by 17 per cent year-on-year across key consumption-linked sectors during the August-October period, driven by heightened consumer sentiment, attractive festive......
India’s computer services exports have risen 30 per cent since the advent of ChatGPT in November 2022, even as overall services exports have plateaued, World Bank’s South Asia Chief Economist......
Opening up the corner office is fine, but will the government be able to attract talent without giving a market-rate salary?, asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff In......
'It's far-fetched to say that human thinking will become subservient.' IMAGE: Aranya Sahay and Sonal Madhushankar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Aranya Sahay Grippingly narrated by writer-director......
'They are clueless about the man on the currency notes.''They have been fed with WhatsApp forwards, so either Gandhi is vilified or deified. There's nothing in between.' IMAGE: Pratik Gandhi and......
'I asked her whether she stood first. 'Yes Baba' was her reply. Her mother was crying in joy.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Anuparna Roy/Instagram Anuparna Roy, who received the Best Director award......
The Toronto International Film Festival has come a long way in the last 50 years -- from the time it was known as the Festival of Festivals to becoming the biggest film event of North America and......
'On our first day at the Kumbh Mela, there was a fire and shook our confidence.''There must have been a few crore people there.''How do we place the camera in between them?' IMAGE: A scene from......
A majority of the state units have opposed the doing away with of the dual posts when the AIFF sought their approval. IMAGE: The Supreme Court instructed the national federation, headed by Kalyan......
Images from second ODI between India and South Africa at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, Raipur, on Wednesday. IMAGE: Aiden Markram anchored South Africa's chase with......
Her younger sister, Roshni, discovered her hanging in her room and immediately alerted the family. She was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared brought dead. IMAGE: Rohini Kalam had......
'Once we had Mandira Bedi, who shot a commercial for a famous diamond brand. The entire endorsement money that she got, she gave it to the WCAI and we arranged for air tickets for India's tour of......
'When you wear that Indian jersey, you can't say no to anything.' IMAGE: Nine years after he first made his India debut, Sanju Samson finally made it count with three centuries in eight innings......