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Backstage for the Trump visit

What goes behind the scenes for an American President's visit?Archana Masih/Rediff.com finds out. IMAGE: Members of the Gujarat police's bomb disposal squad scan a plant, February 18, 2020, along......

How foreign media covered India's Moon-landing bid

IMAGE: ISRO employees in tense mood after the Vikram module of Chandrayaan-2 lost the communication during landing on lunar surface at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC),......

Sai's Take: A waveless election in UP?

The interesting bit about the Azamgarh poll finding on India TV was the whopping percentage of Muslims backing the SP-BSP alliance, which sort of negates Mayawati’s appeal to the community to......

Was Ravana the world's first aviator?

'Even among scientists and technology mavens -- typically communities that tend to view the world through the lens of logos or reason and not mythos, there is a shiny-eyed enthusiasm for the......

The elusive search for truth in media

Is it likely that one of these days, a demand may rise that only truthful endorsement should be made in the media and that if it is discovered that she or he in real life does not use that brand,......

Chinese makers make up for shortfall at Auto Expo

The number of participating automakers has fallen from 50 in 2018 to 30 this year. The count of exhibitors, including technology companies, has come down from 119 to 112. And showstopper luxury and......

Sachin Bansal's firm buys IT consulting firm MavenHive

The two parties did not share the deal size but said MavenHive's two founders and 40-odd team members have joined the Bansal-owned firm. MavenHive was started by Bhavin Javia and Anandha Krishnan......

Influencing the influencer

'An influencer is expected to have upwards of 100,000 followers across various social media platforms of YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc,' points out brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran,......

Post FM's lifeline, markets to see best Monday so far in 2019?

Market experts on why the bulls will be on the rampage first thing on Monday after the scrapping of enhanced surcharge on FPIs and other measures to ease the systemic liquidity squeeze and boost......

The real secret about Indian start-ups

US start-ups crash and burn frequently, so why the concern about start-up losses in India? The principal reason, says Kanika Datta, is that Indian start-ups clone ideas from the US. Flipkart, Ola,......

2016: The year Hollywood gave Bollywood a scare

Movies like Jungle Book, Conjuring 2 helped Hollywood capture its biggest share of the Indian box office this year. Hollywood expects to build on this in 2017 with films like Thor: Ragnarok,......

Avatar eyes $ 1 billion mark

With a handful of movies appealing to a variety of tastes, Hollywood had a record-breaking Christmas weekend led by James Cameron's sci-fi fable Avatar, which grossed an awesome $200 million plus......

Lunching with Manish Malhotra

He's styled some of the most gorgeous women on screen, and after his work with IPL's Kolkata Knight Riders, is experimenting with track pants as evening-wear.It was day-night one-day cricket that......

Saina ready for Chinese challenge at World C'ship

After winning three successive international tournaments, badminton maven Saina Nehwal is confident of conquering next month's World Championship in Paris. "Considering the way I am playing and the......

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