Amit Jain tells Shyamal Majumdar about his dream to make Uber the 'safest place in the city'
The Argentinian becomes the first brand ambassador of the company in its 70-year history.
A weekend in the beautiful sleepy town of Mukteshwar is just what you need to bust your stress, says Suchismita Banerjee.
Karan Choudhury asks Uber India president Amit Jain what the company's global problems mean for its India operations.
Internet entrepreneurs are the next big thing in India.
Teams of students and coders demonstrated in 24 hours diverse programmes impacting health and livelihood issues with use of a personal identity number.
'The question now is how long the exercise in perfection he created will last once his influence isn't there any longer,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
We celebrate Bhattsaab and his greatest gems.
A round-up of our favourite photographs from the week gone by
If the Indian Railways thinks it can get away with this sassy attitude, it is because it is, in a sense, a monopolist in the business of transporting people. The distances one has to cover, say from Thane or Virar to Mumbai is impossible by road provides railways the arrogance, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
To those who feel that Dhadak doesn't measure up to Sairat, Kshamaya Daniel, 19, has one piece of advice: We're talking about wine here, not scotch.
Markets ended higher, amid firm global cues, and are on track for third straight day of gains.
Despite the language barrier, Beijing is a city where getting lost is not necessarily a bad idea
The Chinese billionaire and founder of Alibaba is said to be planning a significant investment in business to business e-tailing as well as payment services and logistics companies.
Paris is a place brimming with history, irony and a bit of discontent.
Altigreen's hybrid engine will help make cars more fuel efficient and the air we breathe cleaner.
'It was the first document he had seen that asked him about his past in such detail; it was the only interest this country (America) had shown in his origins, and it was most inconvenient. To get ahead, he had to find out where he had come from.'
'We spoke of everything but politics.' 'She was well-versed in the Eng. Lit. canon of Dickens and Austen, but had also read Oscar Wilde's famous epistolary tract from jail, De Profundis.' Sunil Sethi recalls his memorable encounters with Jayalalithaa.
Budget proposals have set four goals to transform Indian Railways.
Ola Cabs, which started out in 2010, has raised over $1 billion of funds.
Australian model Ilana Davies gets candid with Rediff.com's Tista Sengupta.
Maharashtra's beef ban has led to heated arguments on social media, but when a protest against the ban was held in Mumbai, only a few thousands turned up. Perhaps it is easier to outrage online than join an actual protest, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The US is still a place for innovation and entrepreneurship, and it is good to see Indian Americans and immigrants contributing to this in a major way, says K V Seshasayee who visited the US after four years and found the gloom had dissipated.
Rediff readers share their Cash Crisis experiences.
Reshma Qureshi's face was destroyed by acid. It did not stop her.
Even in this season of political-peeing-on-lampposts, Rahul Gandhi's statement takes the cake (with due apologies to another astute observer of poverty, the much late Mary Antoinette).
'In 2015 I watched films in so many places. I attended several film festivals around the world -- Berlin, Tribeca (New York), Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, Mumbai, Dharamsala and Goa,' says Aseem Chhabra, author of a forthcoming book on Shashi Kapoor.
Speed-job dating is becoming popular among job-seekers and employers.
Here's a glimpse at what happened around the world last week
Protests demanding Jallikattu swelled on the streets of Tamil Nadu after agitators rejected statements by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and the state braced for a shutdown on Friday.
Patients from any part of the country will soon need to travel no more than three hours for treatment of the kind available in large metros.
Satyajit Ray. Films from Italy, Iceland and Albania feature on Aseem Chhabra's list.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
"Everyone knows me because of that terrible tragedy. My memories of Mosul only bring me sadness. How can I be proud about my fame? I lost everything there," Harjit Masih told Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt over the phone.
'Our body functions in a particular system. We pass urine. We pass motions. We swallow food. We drink water. We breathe properly.' 'If there is an obstruction to any of these things -- difficulty swallowing, difficulty passing urine, passing blood in the urine, passing blood in the stools or severe pain anywhere, lasting for more than a month, or for example the skin, which covers our body, has a few moles that start increasing or bleeding... then you need to see a specialist.'
E-commerce is awash in money, raising concerns about whether this is just another unsustainable internet trend headed for a bust.
'My worst performances are in those movies in which the directors showed me how to act,' Emraan Hashmi tells Arthur J Pais/ Rediff.com in Toronto.
Two whole weeks after he landed on his feet in unfamiliar territory, Patrick Ward records what it is to be a parachute journalist in the chaos called India
Arvind Kejriwal's strategy to take the pollution bull by the horns needs to be applauded. And I am sure that all the imaginary problems and grievances will be addressed before the restrictions are actually implemented, says Sudhir Bisht.
National award winner Chaitanya Tamhane tells us the story behind his film, Court.
