Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......

Is Sharad Pawar Buying Insurance?

Sharad Pawar reckons that the NCP has value as a united, going concern, not as a gaggle of leaders in search of followers, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Sharad Pawar, who stepped down as......

Be very afraid of the biometric regime

There are unprecedented political implications of identification based on 'biological attributes of an individual,' such as employed by Aadhaar, warns Gopal Krishna. On April 20, an order was......

Namdeo Dhasal: A poet with a panther's hunger for justice

Sudheendra Kulkarni pays tribute to friend, poet and Dalit activist Namdeo Dhasal who passed into the ages on Wednesday. I was woken up early in the morning by an sms beep on my mobile. Unusual for......

Tracing the journey of auto industry pioneer Keshub Mahindra

Keshub Mahindra, a pioneer of Indian auto industry and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd chairman emeritus, died on Wednesday morning. Mahindra, 99, breathed his last on Wednesday morning at home peacefully,......

'Idea behind SROs is not to make them more regulatory'

'One of the aspects for transparency and fair governance is to give the industry being represented the chance of lobbying with the regulator.' Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters In March, the......

ABN Amro to hike interest rates

ABN Amro may hike interest rates by 25-40 basis points by middle of 2006 and 50-70 basis points by the end of the year.This is in view of tightening global liquidity, high credit growth and......

Flood alert! Mumbai firms gear up

Two days ahead of the high tide warning, corporate houses in Mumbai are busy drawing plans to meet any possible recurrence of the July 26, 2005 deluge in the metropolis. The Bombay Chamber of......

India Juniors stretch A C Milan colts

India's under-20 team came up with a commendable display, but it was not enough to deny the AC Milan under-18 squad from scoring a 2-1 victory in the Festa 2005 Cup, organized by the Indo-Italian......