'We had prepared tapioca and crabs for him, and he enjoyed the Kerala cuisine thoroughly.' IMAGE: Pope Leo XIV waves at the end of an audience with representatives of the media at the Vatican, May......
As an IAS officer in Kerala, Gyanesh Kumar -- who the Congress described as Amit Shah's 'right hand man' -- had a good working equation with the state's Congress and Left leaders. IMAGE: Chief......
Two days after a young dairy farmer suffered a devastating loss, with as many as 13 of his 20 cows dying from suspected food poisoning, offers of new cows and financial assistance poured in from......
Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com travels to Pullampara to discover how it became India's first digital literate village. IMAGE: Panchayat Digi-Pullampara team Vice President Aswathy, President P V......
The first visit by Dai Bingguo, Executive Vice Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the Chinese Premier, to Kerala's backwaters to talk peacedid notproduce a lasting solution to the vexed......
Onion and potato production is expected to be down in the 2023-24 crop year, while the tomato output could be marginally higher, the Department of Agriculture’s first advance estimates of......
India's largest commodity bourse, the Multi Commodity Exchangeand the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand have signed a memorandum of understandingto explore areas of cooperation that would......
The Swiss food major had exited the water category in India several years ago. Maggi noodles is not the only product for which Nestlé India has faced queries. Food Safety and......
"I have got GE to change a little bit, and I have changed myself. The two have converged." Over lunch with Jyoti Mukul, Banmali Agrawala, president and CEO, GE South Asia, discusses how GE is......
Somewhere in the back of my mind, Lijo Jose Pellissery's women have begun to stand for the women in my family, each of them with such an intensely vital sense of personality that she withstands all......
KPAC Lalitha's specialty was evoking on screen people that the audience felt they knew intimately, and evoking them through telling details that tore down the boundary between the audience and the......
Shivajee Chandrabhushan is just one film old -- but even immigration officials at Mumbai airport are beginning to recognise him. 'Oh yeah, which festival are you going to now?' they ask him, says......
If you think the film is gutsy, you are simply being blind to the truth that the whole men-are-worthless slant is saleable right now, argues Sreehari Nair. The Great Indian Kitchen begins as a......
'Mahesh Bhavana is a young man who is beaten up in the town's marketplace and who consequently pledges that he won't wear his slippers again, till he avenges the beating.' 'But Mahesh can't get his......