'Shivakumar is not a traitor like Jyotiraditya Scindia'

'Shivakumar is an andhbhakt of Congress ideology and principles.' IMAGE: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with D K Shivakumar, left, and Siddaramaiah, New Delhi, May 17 2023. Photograph: ANI......

Is Sharad Pawar Buying Insurance?

Sharad Pawar reckons that the NCP has value as a united, going concern, not as a gaggle of leaders in search of followers, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Sharad Pawar, who stepped down as......

Will General Munir Take On Imran Khan?

If General Asim Munir, Pakistan's new army chief, wants to help defuse the current polarised atmosphere and shepherd civilian politicians towards negotiations on an acceptable date for elections,......

Veteran Ami Bera makes it as 5th Indian American elected to US Congress

A record five Indian-American lawmakers from the ruling Democrat Party, including Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal and Ami Bera have been elected to the US House of Representatives,......

India may pip US as largest GitHub base soon: Nadella

India is expected to overtake the US as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer Satya Nadella said during his address to 1,100 developers......

Tata Motors drives past Maruti as most-valued auto firm

Tata Motors surpassed Maruti Suzuki (India) (MSIL) to become the most-valuable automobile company, in terms of market capitalisation (mcap), after a gap of seven years. Photograph: Mike......

India overtakes Hong Kong as world's fourth-largest stock market

Indian stock indices traded sharply higher on Tuesday at the opening bell and were just shy of their all-time highs. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Benchmark indices--Sensex and Nifty--were......

Ambani pips Adani to become richest Indian on Hurun list

Mukesh Ambani has raced ahead of Gautam Adani to become the richest Indian on a list of wealthiest people in the country. Photograph: PTI Photo from the Rediff Archives The 66-year-old chairman......

Injured or not, Dhoni 'just carries on and does his thing'

'I'm sure there's some niggles. He just has that ability to ignore what it is and do what needs to be done. We're more concerned about his injuries. When I say we, I mean the public (which) is more......

Deepika bags two golds on international return

  IMAGE: Deepika Kumari defeated Simranjeet Kaur 6-2 to pocket the recurve women's title at the Asia Cup Leg 1 in Baghdad on Sunday. Photograph: World Archery/X Former world number one archer......

Stokes defends 'Bazball' despite crushing defeat

IMAGE: England skipper Ben Stokes defended their approach despite falling to one of their biggest defeats. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters One of England's heaviest Test defeats could not shake Ben......

U-19 Final: India's young turks aim for World Cup glory

  IMAGE: India captain Uday Saharan's batting style resembles the 1980s and 90s' top-order accumulators. Photograph: ICC/X Few careers will get wings to soar while some will fade into oblivion......

Ranji Round-up: UP hold nerves to pip Mumbai; Delhi register first win

IMAGE: UP eked out a two-wicket win over Mumbai. Photograph: BCCI Domestic/X The efforts of Aryan Juyal (76) and Karan Sharma (67) stood out as Uttar Pradesh held nerves to beat 41-times champions......