'People are quite productive while they work from home.' 'The sooner we accept the new normal, the better it is.'
'During the pandemic, thousands of IT employees have lost their jobs.' 'Many of those who still have their jobs fear that they will lost it any moment.'
Nisha Gupta and Guddi Thapliyal set up Geek Monkey with an investment of Rs 1.5 lakh. Today it's worth Rs 2 crores.
Nadar, renamed Maharaja Dhiraaj Raja Ram, was presented before the local media in Allahabad on Sunday evening.
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
Yet another achievement is added to PeeCee's growing list.
'Both are mature enough to realise that a break will not benefit either of them and both will be losers'
'I am an auto driver, and I am doing my best.'
The candidate is from the DMK's ruling family, and the sky is the limit -- for both expenses and expectations.
As the election campaign for the 16th Lok Sabha drew to a close on Saturday, May 10, Varanasi looked like a city undergoing an exodus. According to the Election Commission guidelines, those engaged in campaign activities -- if they were not voters in the constituency, irrespective of their party or candidate affiliation -- would have to leave the city after canvassing ended. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com takes stock as the whirlwind campaign in Varanasi ended.
Over time, as more mutations occur, the vaccine may need to be altered.
'You have to get past the phobia that Math is difficult.' 'The brain is exercising when you do arithmetic.'
P Chidambaram declined to contest the Lok Sabha election, but Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar runs into the finance minister who is working hard to ensure an unlikely victory for his son Karti in Sivaganga, which Chidambaram has represented since 1984.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com recalls how Kanyakumari MP H Vasanthakumar, the first parliamentarin to die of Covid-related complications, would address his constituents by their names, making it a point to ask after their work and family.
'The party is going through hard times. One doesn't back off when your party needs you the most. Tough people never withdraw from the race,' movie star Nagma, the Congress candidate from Meerut, UP, tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa left no one in doubt about having an eye on New Delhi, at her election meeting in Tuticorin on Saturday, reports A Ganesh Nadar.
Mukesh Ambani drops from 18th in 2012 to 35th position.
'I do spew poison against Modi and his communalism. I am deeply depressed that India is on the edge of reaching where Germany was in January 1937 when Hitler came to power through a democratic election,' Mani Shankar Aiyar tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar.
'Our clients need business. For business you need workers and so we decided to help'
The date had been fixed, as was the venue. But what this young couple from Dehradun didn't plan for was the lockdown that prevented them from going back home to get married. Not to worry, the Pune police went out of their way to arrange for a venue, pandit, even for someone to do the kanyadan.
One needs patience to watch Once Again, feels A Ganesh Nadar.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com tracks the train from Jolarpettai carrying its precious cargo.
'Business will be 20% of what it was before the lockdown.'
'Nobody will think like him. It was a treat for us to listen to him. He was meticulous in his argument. We got trained by listening to him,' says senior criminal lawyer R Shanmugasundaram, who had known Ram Jethmalani for almost 40 years.
A man who was ready to die for the country in his youth waits for his government to recognise his sacrifice and pay him his due in his old age.
These institutes, while expensive, are a viable alternative to studying abroad.
Chants of "Modi, Modi" are heard as he makes his way through the jostling crowd, showered by rose petals. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com captures the mood at 11, Ashoka Road.
S Bhagyalakshmi, an AIDS counsellor, has been "living with the HIV virus for 20 years now." She is an inspiring example of how AIDS should not stop anyone from living a fulfilling life.
'People thought the cyclone would miss their area as a short while before it struck, the sun was shining.' 'Some people had not evacuated, but stayed at home. They died when the walls collapsed.'
Ten billionaires including Mukesh Ambani, Sunil Mittal are in the world's richest list.
Formal announcement of venture into new segment on Thursday; group's entry timely, given the demand, say experts
According to SOP, those testing positive will be isolated in a separate unit of an institutional facility.
'It shows that they cannot manage the situation with the forces in their hand.'
A Ganesh Nadar marvels at the grandiose state conference of the DMK, held in Tiruchirappalli over the weekend
In Rameswaram, virtually every building and wall has a banner dedicated to him.
'The government allowed private hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients, so it should pay.'
'Where are the 1.3 billion people?' 'I am overwhelmed when I saw my country, my country had come to a standstill.'
Children between the ages of 10 and 14 continue to be brought to Garden City from villages in north India after their parents are paid a nominal amount and promised a job, shelter and work in Karnataka.
For former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, the RTI Act remains a powerful ally, finds A Ganesh Nadar
'The last four years was not Dravidian rule, it was BJP rule by proxy.'
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