Her great grandfather began sugar co-operatives in Maharashtra.Her grandfather was an eight time MP.Her uncle is currently leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra assembly.Her cousin joined the......
'As China rises and India grows to reclaim their earlier positions on the world stage as two of the largest economies and most important countries, there will indeed be some contention between......
IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday. Photograph: @MEAPhotogallery/Flickr Prime Minister......
The International Yoga Day celebrations in West Bengal were a low-key affair on Thursday with neither Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee nor any of her ministers participating in any yoga session......
'The policy is to consolidate farming into the hands of a few and to take away the food security of the country.''Once food is in the hands of 15 chosen corporate houses, you will get food, but at......
On the occasion of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s two-day visit, Indian exporters are looking for a big boost in export of agricultural commodities, especially the ones that have been......
'India is there to stay as it has always been a consumer.''Its consumption has been huge, mainly due to demographics.' Photograph: Mahipal Soni/Rediff.com Global sugar markets are facing an......
The Tata empire turns 150 this year.R Gopalakrishnan, former director, Tata Sons Ltd, imagines a conversation among the group's founder Jamsetji, his son Dorabji, his successor, Nowroji Saklatwala,......
'A sustainable growth rate of 8 per cent is evidently some distance away,' says T N Ninan.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh Annual reports on countries, done by the World Bank and International Monetary......
'In the final analysis, all Budgets everywhere are like the schemes hatched by A A Milne's lovable Winnie-the-Pooh.''They may be well-intended, but often go awry.''Although Pooh and his friends......
Last September on the eve of the release of Gurmeet Ram Rahim's MSG: The Warrior Lion Heart, Rediff.com's Patcy N and Afsar Dayatar attended a huge concert in Sirsa, Haryana, to promote the......
'Which movie has been about love between castes?''In Ek Duje Ke Liye, the divide was between a non-vegetarian north Indian family and a vegetarian south Indian one; in Amitabh Bachchan's films,......
Afterthe International Film Festival of India came to a close in Goa, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh claimed that the Congress had conspired to keep Amitabh Bachchan away from IFFI, thereby......
Sri Lanka off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has passed himself fit to participate in the fundraising match for tsunami victims between an ICC World XI and an Asian XI in Melbourne on Monday.Also......
Texan pest controller Maurice "Termite" Watkins went to Iraq a year ago to kill bugs. Now, he is preparing Iraq's national boxing team for the Olympic Games.It did not take long before word got......