India indebted to Manmohan Singh for liberalisation: Gadkari

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said the country is indebted to former prime minister Manmohan Singh for the economic reforms. India needs a liberal economic policy with the intention to......

Media must be vigilant, point out govt's shortcomings: Manmohan Singh

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the media needs to remain vigilant and flag shortcomings of the government with a view to improve the effectiveness of governance. IMAGE: TIOL......

How Kharge Can Change Indian Politics

A new Congress leader may make an electoral impact by his very presence.Congress voters who had moved away from the party, after being influenced by the BJP's 'family rule' campaign, can now return......

Gadkari's Congress Googly To Modi

Is anyone in the BJP listening -- to what Nitin Gadkari had to say, but possibly left unsaid? asks N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supremo and Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas......

Modi needs to listen to our economists

We have a government with an extremely weak economic team advising a PM who hardly pays attention to their thoughts, says Jayanta Roy. Photograph: Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   I......

Do you know what Modi's AMs are, and what they do?

'The AMs are a different beast and reflect the political play within the government.' 'Prime Minister Modi does not need to assuage any interest group to take the final call on any decision that......

The Budget as Budgets should be

'We need to put aside our anxieties about the Budget for now and possibly for long, and carry on as best as we can,' advises Shreekant Sambrani.Illustrations: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The Big News......

The man who proposed the ban on Rs 500, 1,000 notes

The War on Big Notes 'By demonetising higher denominations of currency notes, we have taken out the vehicle for corruption.'But the motive is still there.' In 2000, Anil Bokil, chairperson of......

Bol Radha Bol producer Nitin Manmohan dies

Photograph: Kind courtesy Nitin Manmohan/Instagram Film Producer Nitin Manmohan, known for movies such as Bol Radha Bol and Laadla, passed away on Thursday at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani......

Bollywood's Whiskey Moments

'Khel risky tha whiskey ne kiya beda paar': Sharaabi 'Iski uski kaun kiski yaaran da imaan whiskey': 2 States 'Aaj botlan khullan do. Daaru shaaru ghullan do. Whiskey da peg laga ke, saari duniya......

PIX: Neil's day out with wife, daughter

Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit hosted a wedding reception for his daughter Shaarika and son-in-law Tapas in Mumbai over the weekend. The president of the Indian Film & Television Directors’......

When Bollywood made EVIL So Much FUN!

Every story needs a hero and a villain. But sometimes one antagonist is just not enough. Take Director Sujeeth's hugely hyped Saaho for instance. Releasing in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, the Prabhas......