Thousands of women from all walks of life hit the streets across West Bengal at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, protesting the horrific rape-murder of a doctor on duty at a Kolkata hospital......
On Sunday, Asma Jahangir, Pakistan’s renowned human rights lawyer, social activist and an outspoken critic of the country’s powerful military establishment, passed away in Lahore. Known......
The Bharatiya Janata Party has approached a number of big names, whom it wants to field as candidates from the state of West Bengal in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections of May 2014. The saffron......
'Such steps would be a barrier and something people do not want.' IMAGE: A Karnataka Rakshana Vedike member vandalises a signboard of a business establishment during a protest in Bengaluru to......
As more companies ask their employees to return to office after the pandemic, the share of women employed in regular salaried jobs in urban India decreased from 54 per cent in the first quarter to......
While the country's unemployment rate is falling, the quality of employment seems to have taken a hit. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The pace of formalisation slowed in the five months......
India's unemployment rose to a three-month high in March to 7.8 per cent as the country's labour markets deteriorated, according to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).......
In the jobs created in 2022, the share of those in the age group 18-25 increased to at least a five-year high of 56 per cent. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A Business Standard analysis......
Kajol, daughter Nysa Devgan and sister Tanisha Mukerji participated in the Sindoor Khela ceremony at the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja. Photograph: Panna Bandekar Kajol's Sindoor Khela......
The year started on a sad note for the Mukherjee family. Barely two months after Deb Mukherjee passed into the ages, his older brother Rono Mukherjee passed away on May 28. His prayer meeting was......
'Once I started acting, I gradually started liking it and the perks that come with it.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Indraneil Sengupta/Instagram There has been a lot of talk lately about Indraneil......
It was a rare treat to see Sharmila Tagore and her children Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan and Saba Pataudi at the premiere of her Bengali film Puratawn (The Ancient) at the ongoing MAMI Film......
After Aishwarya Rai, Sonam Kapoor and Vidya Balan, Rituparna Sengupta and Nandita Das made red carpet appearances at the Cannes Film Festival. Rituparna, whose Bengali film Alik......
IMAGE: Ayush Shetty went down fighting to higher-ranked Toma Junior Popov at the Denmark Open on Tuesday. Photograph: Ayush Shetty/Instagram Young Indian shuttler Ayush Shetty put up a spirited......
IMAGE: Sourabh Verma set up a final clash with eighth seeded Taiwanese Wang Tzu Wei. Photograph: BAI Media/Twitter A gritty Sourabh Verma entered the men's singles final after a......
IMAGE: India's Ajay Jayaram in action. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Indian shuttler Ajay Jayaram disposed off Netherland's Mark Caljouw in straight games to advance to the......
IMAGE: B Sai Praneeth suffered a first-round exit on Wednesday. Photograph: Matt Roberts/Getty Images Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth suffered a shock defeat at the hands of fellow Indian Rithvik......
IMAGE: Sourabh Verma will next face Korea's Heo Kwang Hee for a place in the men's singles final. Photograph: Sourabh Verma/Instagram Indian shuttlers Sourabh Verma and Rituparna Das......