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Thousands of H-1B visa interviews deferred for social media review

Pre-scheduled interviews of thousands of H-1B visa applicants slated for later this month in India have been abruptly postponed by several months apparently to scrutinise their social media posts......

Goa nightclub fire: Owners denied interim relief

Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, owners of Goa's Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub that caught fire killing at least 25 people, on Wednesday failed to get interim relief from a Delhi court which fixed their......

Nehru, Indira did vote chori, says Shah; Oppn walks out

In a stinging attack at the Opposition over its criticism of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said they worried because they can no......

Pune land deal: HC asks if cops are protecting Parth Pawar

The Bombay high court on Wednesday questioned whether the police were protecting Parth Pawar, son of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, by not naming him in a land deal FIR, and investigating only......

Can democracy be safe if infiltrators decide PM: Shah defends SIR

Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused the opposition of spreading falsehoods on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and launched a strong defence of the exercise, asking whether democracy can......

US court reverses $1 bn damages against Byju

A US bankruptcy court has reversed a $1 billion damages ruling against Byju Raveendran, according to a statement from the founders of Think and Learn Pvt Ltd - the parent firm of ed-tech platform......

GST 2.0 boosts petrol-diesel car sales over EVs

While GST on ICE vehicles was brought down significantly, for electric cars it remained at 5 per cent. Photograph: Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters The goods and services tax (GST) reforms clearly tilted......

Sensex down 275 points on fag-end selling

Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty declined for the third straight day on Wednesday to close at a nearly month's low, dragged by a last-hour selloff in consumer durables, private banks and IT......

Loan growth, profitability seen improving for public sector banks

The Indian banking sector could be due for a rise in profitability after several quarters of net interest margin (NIM) compression. Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters The Q2FY26 results suggest NIMs......

When Satya Met Modi...

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella met Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second time this year. Satya's visit was focused on India's AI roadmap, backed by a $17.5 billion commitment for......

Dev Anand Wanted To Make Hare Rama Hare Krishna Sequel

IMAGE: Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman in Hare Rama Hare Krishna Photograph: Rediff Archives Dev Anand had many dreams when death snatched him away from us. One of his biggest dreams was to do a......

JioHotStar Is Investing 4K Cr In South!

The platform has seen a growth of 70% in watch time for South content, which is more than the national average.The South has outperformed the rest of India in subscription depth, retention and......

Music In 2 Minutes: The Husnlal Bhagatram Story

Music director duos are a unique Bollywood feature, and many have become iconic. In this special series, Dinesh Raheja explores prominent music duos, and their dynamics. Also Read:The......

Does Tamannaah Look Like Jayashree? VOTE

IMAGE: Tamannaah Bhatia. Photograph: Kind courtesy Camera Take Films/Instagram Tamannaah Bhatia is set to portray actress Jayashree in the upcoming biopic on legendary filmmaker V Shantaram,......

'I Didn't Want To Do Bigg Boss, But...'

IMAGE: Mohanlal, Nagarjuna and Vijay Sethupathi. Photograph: Rajul Hegde for Rediff JioStar's SouthUnbound event served as the launchpad for several new original projects on the streaming......

'I don't love...' Mandhana reveals what motivates her

'As a kid, the madness for batting was always there. No one understood it, but in my mind, I always wanted to be called a world champion.' IMAGE: Smriti Mandhana will be back to competitive......

Brave fightback! India claim Junior Hockey World Cup bronze

IMAGE: After going 0-2 down, India fought back to beat Argentina and finish on the podium at the FIH Men's Junior World Cup, in Chennai, on Wednesday. Photograph: Hockey India India produced a......

Has Technical Tweak Hampered Gill's T20 Game?

'A stance like that always helps to play shots square off the wicket, especially the horizontal bat shot like pull and Gill is as good a puller as one would find in world cricket.' IMAGE:......

Arshdeep or Kuldeep? India forced into tough call

IMAGE: Arshdeep Singh makes his case yet again. Photograph: BCCI/X India’s latest selection call has reopened an old debate -- how do you fit both Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav into a side......

Why Jitesh is suddenly ahead of Samson for T20 WC

'If Sanju is not in top three and if the keeper is batting in the middle order you rather play a specialist, a lower order batter than a top order batter' IMAGE: Jitesh Sharma is expected to start......