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Bihar polls: Campaign ends for final phase, voting on Tuesday

The campaign ended on Sunday evening for the second and final phase of the high-stakes assembly elections in Bihar, bringing to a close a nearly month-long fierce battle of words and nerves among......

Will Cash Transfer Win Bihar For Modi?

If women voters are mobilised in big numbers to the voting booths on November 6 and 11 by the Nitish Kumar-led NDA, then it will be quite difficult for the Tejashwi Yadav-led Mahagathbandhan to......

Why BJP, Nitish Need Each Other

Left to its machinations, the BJP would have loved to cut Nitish down to size, but it can't afford to do so as the JD-U is in alliance with the BJP at the Centre, and cannot form a government on......

How Zohran Mamdani Went From 1% To Frontrunner

What an achievement it will be if a young Gujarati-Punjabi man is able to give the most powerful nation in the world a new direction, asserts Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic......

Dream On... Viksit Bharat

Can change happen? Not unless the changemakers themselves want it since they benefit the most from the status quo, notes Biswajit Dasgupta. Kindly note the image has been published only for......

Running for top spot, Asics eyes Nike and Adidas turf in India

It has charted an ambitious target. Japanese premium sports goods giant Asics — which sells 75 per cent of its shoes in the country at over Rs 12,000 a pair — wants to be the No. 1 running shoe......

New Tata EVs will run 500 km on single charge

As battery prices drop, early customers of Tata Motors, which was the first mover in the passenger EV market, could feel let down. IMAGE: Tata Curvv EV. All photographs: Kind courtesy......

How Swift Changed Maruti's Thinking

Swift Dzire has clocked 2.5 million in sales, and you might, in a non-too-distant future, see headlines that the DZire has done 3 million as well, observes Suveen Sinha. IMAGE: Maruti Suzuki's 4th......

How Sensex Has Changed Over Years

A quarter of the stocks have been replaced since 2019, marking the evolution of India's economy. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The ancient Greeks argued a paradox: If the Ship of Theseus......

'When I Go To A Hotel, I Check Under The Bed'

'A Lufthansa crew member reached a hotel in the middle of night and slept.''The next morning, something fell and she bent to pick it up.''She saw a dead body under the bed!' Photograph: Kind......

For F1, what happened in Vegas does not stay in Vegas

IMAGE: McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri's disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix blew the F1 title race wide open. Photograph: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images/Reuters Contrary to......

McLaren's Norris and Piastri disqualified from Las Vegas GP

IMAGE: The two McLaren drivers were ruled out for excessive skid plank wear hours after the race had ended and the podium champagne been sprayed. Photograph: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images/Reuters......

Key moments of the 2025 Formula One season

IMAGE: McLaren's Lando Norris reacts after finishing third place at the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix on Sunday. Photograph: Amr Alfiky/Reuters Lando Norris won his first Formula One championship at......

Virat Kohli Is Still Scoring Big

Whether in cricket or business, Kohli continues to play the long game. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff Virat Kohli might have announced his retirement from Test cricket, but he remains very......

Ferrari's Hamilton and Leclerc disqualified from Chinese GP

IMAGE: Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari was reported to stewards for excessive skid wear during the Chinese Grand Prix. Photograph: Alex Plavevski/Reuters Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis......