The unemployment rate shot up to a record 10.9 per cent in the week that ended on December 18, points out Mahesh Vyas. IMAGE: Labourers wait for work at a market on a cold morning in Delhi. Kindly......
'We still don't know how viruses that we ingest are killed inside our bodies.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Aversion to bathing reached an extreme in the UK in the 1600s. Wearing linen......
Jyoti Punwani decodes Modi's Covid Vaccine speech. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi addresses the nation a day after India crossed the 1 billion COVID-19 vaccination milestone,......
What are the most worrisome aspects of climate change for India?Can they be solved?Environment crusader Sunita Narain believes it is possible.A must read excerpt from her latest book, Conflicts Of......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers, keeping to herself nine departments, including Home, Land and Land Reforms.......
The Indian economy could remain less affected by global trade wars than other countries because the two engines of domestic growth — consumption and investment — are likely to face a......
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday lowered the inflation projection for the current fiscal to 4 per cent from 4.2 per cent earlier, taking into account good agricultural output and falling crude prices.......
Domestic rating agency ICRA on Monday said Indian companies are likely to clock 7-8 per cent revenue growth during the March quarter of the current fiscal year, led by revival in rural demand and......
The Reserve Bank on Friday projected the retail inflation at 4.2 per cent for next financial year beginning April while retaining the forecast for 2024-25 at 4.8 per cent. Illustration: Uttam......
'As the Budget has taken some measures to spur growth, similar action from the MPC may be expected.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Taking into account the moderating inflation, slowing......
'I am glad Aranyer Din Ratri is being shown at Cannes.''The film was better appreciated outside India even when released originally.' IMAGE: Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee in Aranyer Din......
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. 'I don't need......
Had he not taken his final curtain call on April 23, 1992, Satyajit Ray would still, undoubtedly, have been making movies. His films still dazzle with their technical artistry and are relevant even......
True masterpieces are so few and far-between, that when one comes upon us, awe is obvious. It's been many years since I last watched Satyajit Ray's 1968 classic Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, and thanks......
Manikdadu would have frowned. (Far be it for one of us to dare call the great Satyajit Ray just da.) A photo exhibit and screening of his Aranyer Din Ratri at a Mumbai theatre was an instance of......