"We do not want all children to become ninjas," a senior lawyer told the Supreme Court on Thursday, taking a cue from Chief Justice H L Dattu's reference to his grandson looking like a ninja by wearing a mask to avoid high levels of pollution in Delhi.
Asserting that India has full potential to emerge as a global hub for electric vehicles by 2025, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday asked automobile manufacturers to reduce cost and forego profit initially to capture market and fuel growth. Once the market picks up there will not be any looking back, Road Transport and Highways and MSMEs Minister Gadkari said, promising all support to manufacturers in the initiative aimed at cutting India's huge import costs of crude and arresting pollution. The minister said he is scheduled to make an hour-long presentation on EVs before the Chief Justice of India post-Diwali.
'Even today, I am like a kid in a candy land -- I look at my airplane with as much excitement as an eight year old.'
'He couldn't hold himself from chanting 'Siyavar Ramchandra ki Jai'.'
According to SAFAR, both stubble burning in surrounding states of Delhi and firecrackers are causing deterioration of air quality in the national capital.
Economic growth has slipped to a six-year low of 5 per cent for the June quarter and is expected to turn in lower than that in the September quarter. Lack of consumption is seen as one of the key factors pulling down growth.
In the past two years, Xiaomi has expanded its chain of offline stores across formats - 6,000 Mi Preferred Partner stores and 75 Mi Homes on a franchise-based model, besides exclusive small-format Mi Stores added last year to penetrate Tier-II, -III and -IV cities and towns.
For the real estate sector, Diwali was the worst period after the global recession struck in 2008-09.
Adapting to the new hybrid normal of remote and office work, cautiously optimistic corporate are looking to hire more people and provide better appraisals in the new year as they step out of the pandemic-ravaged 2020. The coronavirus pandemic emerged as the biggest inflection point for the Indian job landscape. For the corporates, work-from-home and remote workers became the new normal and for the professionals, online learning and digital skills took centrestage.
Start-ups such as Max Wholesale, Jumbotail and ShopKirana are helping them place orders, maintain inventory, optimise delivery routes and make payments, all digitally.
Around 10 to 15 meteors per hour are expected to be seen on November 20 (as earth will encounter dust trails of 1400 AD passage of the parent comet 55P/Tempel Tuttle), as per the International Meteor Organisation (IMO).
A look at the pictures.
In rural Bengal, people still believed that widows were simply biding their time on earth after their lord and master had departed from it, says Geetanjali Krishna.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the new release schedule for actress next year.
Here's what is keeping Bollywood's superstars busy.
A look at the glamorous pictures.
In the song titled Dil tu hi bata, the actress dons many outfits and intricate hairdos.
Pulling up the Delhi government, a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad asked why it waited till the court intervened to take steps such as reducing the number of people attending weddings to 50 to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
Sitharaman said economic slowdown seems to have bottomed out and the coming festive season will help the economy start looking up.
With Navratri round the corner, we look at some of the songs in Hindi films celebrating the festive season.
Rediff.com brings you some of the highlights from the sporting events held last week...
The Dabbang girl of Bollywood had us the moment she appeared on the catwalk.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The actor will play a defence officer in yet another landmark film in his career.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
SRK's seriously slick superhero film means business!
A look at the party pictures.
The optimism stems from benign fuel prices, adequate and well distributed rainfall and the recent measures announced by the government to boost liquidity at banks and NBFCs.
Kareena Kapoor dazzles on the newest Cosmopolitan cover in a golden sequinned dress.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the upcoming films and their release dates.
'It will be a repeated folly to ever think that China will not attack us.'
LG G2 looks somewhat like Samsung's Galaxy S4 but for all the features its loaded with, does it deserve its pricing?
The BSE Sensex rose on Wednesday to mark a record close as telecom firms such as Bharti Airtel surged on better-than-expected operating performance, while continued strong foreign flows also boosted sentiment.
'We flew all missions in the first part of the war at low levels; that is at 300 to 500 feet above the ground.' 'These sorties were no doubt stressful since the pilots and crew had to look out for birds and obstructions as well as enemy gunfire.'
Some of the jokes soar, some nosedive. But to the housefull theatre that laughed at every single bit, it's stuff Diwali releases are made of, writes Sukanya Verma.
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