A woman, whose husband went missing from aircraft carrier INS Viraat around ten years ago, has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the Navy declaring her husband a 'deserter'. According to petitioner Pratibha Raghuram, she was evicted from her house in Navy Nagar in Mumbai in December 1998, barely one month after her husband Raghuram went missing from INS Viraat, which was docked in Goa.
The present legislative framework on betting and gambling in India is sketchy, at best.
Hong Kong on Wednesday initiated a process to attract Indian companies to list on its stock exchange, saying ample liquidity in that market will help local companies raise resources. A delegation led by Hong Kong financial secretary John C Tsang discussed with a dozen Indian companies, most of them big corporate houses, the possibility of listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE).
Sanjay Khan goes back in time with memories of the Mysore fire tragedy.
Housing Development Finance Corporation has posted a 22.08 per cent rise in its second quarter net profit at Rs 248.13 crore (Rs 2.48 billion) as against Rs 203.24 crore (Rs 2.03 billion) in July-September 2003.
... 'is long lives are generally the norm today,' says Rahul Jacob.
Media Firm Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (ZEEL) sold its sports channel Ten Sports to Sony Pictures Networks for a US$ 385-million (about Rs 2,579 crore) in an all cash deal.
Why Aaditya Thackeray's decision to plunge into electoral politics is significant.
'The larger number of patients, who are being affected by COVID-19, are essentially people who have a history of heart disease to begin with, and then experience a more severe form of the infection with COVID-19, because of the existing risk factor.'
'It's an experience of a lifetime. It's the first time I acted in a South Indian film where I was treated as an equal by an actor.'
'The Indian and Israeli rabbis were singing a small departure song for brave little Moshe, who had spent many, likely, heartbreaking but bittersweet hours at this home of his babyhood, looking at the drawings his mother had made for him, that were still up in his room.'
Chauhan, in his petition filed through lawyer Farhana Shah, claimed that the IG (prisons) had cancelled the remission granted to him 'without applying his mind and with a malafide intention'.
Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd said on Tuesday it will acquire US-based Chubb Global Financial Services Corporation's 26 per cent stake in their joint insurance venture.
If Manto, the film, falls short of being a masterpiece it's because Nandita Das could not quite crack the Manto code: She couldn't quite see the wholeness of her subject with the same eyes that Manto saw his people. This imperfection in the film, in a way, becomes the greatest tribute to Manto, feels Sreehari Nair.
Mallya understood, astutely, that the Dhingras were very keen to acquire Berger Paints. He upped his asking price. The figure Vijay asked for was found to be much more than what Kuldip and Gurbachan had anticipated. A fascinating excerpt from Sonu Bhasin's Unstoppable: Kuldip Singh Dhingra And The Rise Of Berger Paints.
'If Shivakumar and Deve Gowda play the match well, this government will complete five years.'
From sports to history, Rediff reader Sabyasachi Dutta shares a selection of books for you to add to your reading list in 2020.
With the Maharashtra government doling out pieces of the lush green Aarey forest to various utilities, the tribals living in it for generations are feeling increasingly insecure. Hepzi Anthony reports.
The ban comes after Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir too stopped the sale of meat.
The company had reported a net loss of Rs 650.78 crore (Rs 6.5 billion) in the same period a year-ago, Kingfisher Airlines said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The apex court was irked when Sebi claimed that the group had allegedly obstructed the process by writing a letter to the Pune police raising the issue of law and order at the prime property.
DLF, India's largest real estate developer by market cap, on Monday said it has sold 49 per cent stake in some of its residential projects to private equity investors for a total consideration of Rs 1,675 crore (Rs 16.75 billion).
'Both Nehru and Patel were thorough gentlemen and whatever their differences never disrespected each other.' 'Neither Modi nor Rahul Gandhi has much in them to claim such legacies.' 'They are symptomatic of the sad days that have befallen the nation midwifed and contemplated by Nehru and Patel,' says Mohan Guruswamy.
'I didn't want to be the bottom-most in the food chain of a commercial film.' 'I'd rather do something experimental and learn and hope that this translates into somebody noticing me.'
The US-based Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is planning to pick up 5 per cent stake in the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Providing no immediate reprieve for dance bar owners in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to continue with the ban on the renewal of licences.
In the university category, IISc stood first, followed by JNU and BHU.
India, with m-cap of about $1.6 trillion, is ahead of Switzerland.