Better economic conditionsM, easy availability of jobs and plain carelessness are some of the top reasons of overstaying in India, says Vicky Nanjappa
It's official! Bangalore is now Bengaluru, Mangalore is Mangaluru and Mysore is Mysuru from Saturday as Karnataka turned 68.
India expects to remain unscathed this time, mainly because it is in a sweet spot as the world's third largest oil consumer, after the US and China, says Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
Two Kannada films-- Paramashiva and Pandya that have remained in the cans for at least two years are releasing today.
India's Iran imports rise to 276,800 bpd vs 195,600 bpd in 2013.
Opposition parties are holding nation-wide protests against the currency ban on Monday as part of the Jan Aakrosh Diwas to agitate against demonetisation.
Raking up the snoopgate scandal allegedly involving Narendra Modi, the Congress on Monday wondered if women of the country would like to have a person like Modi in their households, who is known for his "anti-women attitude".
Indian athletes will begin their campaign in the World Championships in Beijing, on Sunday.
The move will help Jet Airways strengthen its subsidiary JetLite's performance.
'There were areas where the JD-S put up weak candidates against the Congress to benefit the BJP.'
The Sensex ended down 134 points at 28,559 and the Nifty ended 35 points lower at 8,554
A dossier on the Indian Mujahideen, which was prepared following its resurrection post the Batla House encounter, had termed the outfit as a "start to finish jihad factory."
'Gauri was a woman of great integrity and few people know how modestly she lived, generously sharing the little she had.' 'Her only asset was the home her mother built.' 'But she had even bigger riches -- her capacious heart,' remembers former husband and close friend, Chidanand Rajghatta.
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State oil refiners, who are the biggest buyers of US dollars, agreed to implement the RBI order with immediate effect, sources with direct knowledge of the development said.
Karnataka youngster K L Rahul on his elation at being selected for the upcoming Test series against Australia and how he worked on his technique to improve his batting skills.
Ester Noronha who has worked in Telugu films talks about making her Kannada debut.
The agreement says UB Group and Adventz will have the right of first refusal over each other's shares.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra offers advice.
Heavy rains on Tuesday pounded several parts of Tamil Nadu with most areas of Chennai witnessing water logging severely disrupting train and bus services.
After getting Indian Oil Corporation, the nation's largest oil firm, to drop four independent directors and Engineers India Ltd to boot out two, it is now seeking to sack former Power Secretary P Uma Shankar, chartered accountant S Ravi and former BPCL Chairman R K Singh from the board of ONGC.
Taking the Bharatiya Janata Party and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi head on, the Communist Party of India-Marxist on Monday said their claims about riot-free Gujarat and development there were "big lies" based on "complete untruth".
Mallya has denied that he had fled India and said he would comply with laws.
Deepak Fertiliser's promoter might offer to buy Saroj Poddar's stake.
US, China and Japan have no quotas for women and have had the lowest increase in female directors.
In the backdrop of arrest of Yasin Bhatkal, alleged founder of Indian Mujahideen, condemned convict in German Bakery blast case, Himayat Baig has approached the Bombay high court seeking reinvestigation into his case by a neutral agency or a court-appointed Special Investigation Team.
Mallya has lived on the edge for long enough to know that his extradition from UK is not a given, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
The Survey shows fiscal consolidation despite slowdown in growth.
Cover inadequate for even one refinery.
In a blistering attack on Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi on Monday dubbed the Gujarat model propagated by Modi as a 'toffee model', saying it has only benefited one industrialist in the state, ignoring the interests of farmers and the poor.
Patcy N shares her mom Amey Fernandes' Pork Roast recipe.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
India has been eyeing deeper energy ties with Iran and has already lined up $20 billion as investment in oil and gas as well as in petrochemical and fertiliser sectors there.
Rediff readers share their Cash Crisis experiences.
The party may announce Somen Mitra as the Lok Sabha candidate from North Kolkata whose name is set to be decided upon following intra-party elections to choose contenders -- a move initiated by the Congress vice-president to ensure transparency in ticket-distribution system. Renu Mittal reports.
S&P upgraded India's credit outlook to 'stable' from 'negative' earlier.
The year 2015 has seen eight accidents because of derailments.
Sebi asked to reconsider open offer nod as KFA was identified as wilful defaulter.
Setting up the Darabhanga module was perhaps the easiest job the Indian Mujahideen ever pulled off. With politics, appeasement and a safe hiding ground on offer, the agencies are finding this terror module the toughest one to crack.
In the past four months, launches of luxury and super luxury cars have sped ahead of non-luxury ones.
While going back to the old bill is only a face saver, there is little in the bill that will excite industry or the markets, says Shishir Asthana.
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