Strolling down the street

… and I learn more about economic trends than from books, observes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Last Friday, tired of a week of a dozen online video......

Indian-origin techie killed in shootout between rival Mexican gangs

A 29-year-old California-based Indian-origin woman techie, who travelled to Mexico to celebrate her birthday, was one of the two foreign tourists killed in a shootout between two drug gangs in the......

Virus Made Us Love the Internet Again

The wave of enthusiasm for digital technology had faded as we'd grown more and more worried about what smartphones and social media were doing to society and to us as individuals.Now that......

The Man in the Middle of the Twitter Storm

When the Delhi police served him a notice in May for a case involving tagging some political leaders' tweets as carrying manipulated media, a spirited Maheshwari said he was employed by Twitter......

Shark Tank India: Rs 416 Mn For Start-Ups

'It doesn't matter where you come from. If you strongly believe in your idea and we see potential in scaling it up, there are people to back it up.' IMAGE: Shark Tank India aired the first of 30......

Card tokenisation deadline extended by 6 months till Jun-end

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday extended the card-on-file (CoF) tokenisation deadline by six months to June 30, 2022, in view of various representations received from industry bodies.......

'Preserve Capital In 2022'

'For someone who wants to invest for the future or his family, diversification is necessary.''Diversify across asset classes -- equities, gold, real estate, fixed income, commodities, and even......

Netflix cuts subscription rates in India

Content streaming platform Netflix on Tuesday said it is slashing its monthly subscription rates by up to 60 per cent in India, as it looks to woo viewers amid growing competition in the OTT space......

Is this Bollywood's 'COOLEST' Movie?

A shooting schedule of Zoya Akhtar's Archies -- the film is likely to get a Hindi title soon -- in Ooty has been wrapped up, and the film, according to one of its actors, has turned out to be the......

OTT This Week: Killers. JLo. Spooks...

Detectives, superheroes, biopics, documentaries, it's all there on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma offers some suggestions: SpiderheadWhere to watch? NetflixLanguage: English A short story by George......

Another Honour For The Amazing Julie Andrews

Many of us in India have watched Sound Of Music many times and loved its story and music, so it is wonderful to see its star Julie Andrews honoured at the American Film Institute with its Life......

'You need violence and gore to shake things up'

'I always feel that to shake up human beings, you have to go a little extreme.' IMAGE: Anil Kapoor, Mukti Mohan and Director Raj Singh Chaudhary on the sets of Thar. Raj Singh Chaudhary, who......