The top 25 global technology (tech) firms, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Tencent, Samsung, Oracle, and Accenture, collectively lost over $600 billion in market capitalisation (m-cap) during the July-September quarter (third quarter, or Q3) of calendar year 2023 (CY23), reveals a recent report by GlobalData, a London-based analytics and consulting company.
'He did some great work and people remember him from so many things, but he should have got some stronger parts.'
Miss World 2024 will be crowned in India soon. Long before Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra, Yukta Mukhey and Diana Hayden, a beautiful woman from Bombay was crowned Miss World. In 1966. Reita Faria was India's first Miss World. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/ Rediff.com met the 80 year old in Dublin recently, still as elegant, still as attractive as she was all those years ago.
'Padmini and I are very different people.' 'Our acting styles are very different. She's from a different era.'
'Priyanka has done very well in Bollywood and Hollywood. But had she joined politics, it might have been a different story altogether. Given how ambitious she was, she would have made a good youth leader. She might even have launched her own party,' says Sathya Saran
'You should ask your boyfriend that,' the stranger replied. 'We've never met in person. We've been talking for two years. Met on Words with Friends on Valentine's Day two years ago when you were travelling in Bali, shooting your Instagram videos.' A sobering excerpt about love and relationships from Shenaz Treasury's lively new book, All He Left Me Was a Recipe: Lessons From My Break-Ups.
This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem Panicker.
The Table No 21 actress will connect with her rediff readers at noon.
The starlet will connect with Rediff readers on December 23, between 4 and 5 pm.
Economic growth, which we are taking for granted, slows for a completely different set of local or global factors and the Modi premium vanishes, observes Debashis Basu.
'In India, the GenAI startup ecosystem is unfolding with remarkable speed, signalling a new era of technological advancement and investment opportunities.'
Hindol Sengupta was on Rediff Chat on Wednesday to talk about things that matter -- or should matter -- to most of us as citizens, from financial scams to climate change, women's rights to parliamentary spends.
'I don't think we have ever seen such alignment of everything that we need in the banking sector.'
The girl who dared to bare is all set to take questions from you on Rediff ZaraBol.
'In my time, I didn't have that kind of guidance. 'I asked to speak to the international pageant winners before I went and nobody spoke with me. 'It doesn't take away from your title when you help others. It just brings more accolades back to our country.'
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The Hate Story actress and fielded questions from fans about her first Hindi film.
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar and Uttam Ghosh are traveling from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on the Himsagar Express to capture the essence, colours, variety, cuisines, attires, languages -- in short the spirit of our great country as it celebrates its 67th Independence Day. On Wednesday, August 13, Ganesh and Uttam will interact with readers in a Live! Chat from 10 am to 6 pm where they'll share experiences, anecdotes and photographs of their cross-country journey. Join in!
'My smile was the biggest reason that my wife got married to me,' Jay Bhanushali tells us.
Master Chef India winner Shipra Khanna gets candid on Rediff Chat.
On July 17, US Consular Chief Nicholas Manring will take questions on how to apply for a US student visa between 2 and 3 pm IST.
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What some of our leaders were up to on the weekend.
The model/actress takes questions from her Rediff readers.
The actress makes her Bollywood debut with David Dhawan's Chashme Baddoor.
What impact will the Budget have on the IT sector?
Tennis great Leander Paes says it is "humbling" to be the first Indian tennis player and the first Asian male tennis player to be nominated for the prestigious International Tennis Hall of Fame.
The tech creators, or the ones who made billions, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Hopefully, this sex chat will start many conversations, feels Namrata Thakker.
Maqbool Fida Husain, India's best known artist, passed away in London in the wee hours of Thursday. Back in November 1997, the world renowned painter, had appeared on rediff chat. In an owerflowing chat room, Husain bared his heart. We reproduce the transcript.
Telugu superstar Venkatesh talks about his films and more on the Rediff Chat.
The actress connects with her fans on Rediff chat.
Actress Sarah Jane Dias fields questions from fans on Rediff Chat.
On September 4, between 2 and 3 pm, Naveenan Ramachandran and Rajesh Balasubramanian, experts, 2IIM, Mumbai and Chennai will take questions on how to prepare for the Common Admission Test and secure admission in one of the top business schools in the country.
Telugu film director Mohankrishna Indraganti was in his element during a Rediff.com chat on Wednesday. The filmmaker who struck gold with his first film Grahanam and later on with Maya Bazaar and Ashta Chamma, chatted about his films and why making a comedy is serious work.
The actress gets candid with her fans on Rediff Chat.
About 21 per cent Indians born between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s say a potential partner not aligning politically with them is a dating red flag.
In an online chat with our users, Kalli Purie, author of Confessions of a Serial Dieter talked about how she managed to do the unthinkable.
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