'Next 48 hours crucial': 10 dead, hundreds displaced as rain lash Maha

Rains pummelled most parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday, leaving 10 persons dead, bringing Mumbai to a near standstill, damaging properties and crops, and prompting the authorities to shift hundreds......

Gandhi Called Him 'Father Of The Nation'

On his 200th birth anniversary, Utkarsh Mishra/Rediff traces the life, thought, and legacy of Dadabhai Naoroji, the Grand Old Man of India. IMAGE: Dadabhai Naoroji. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons......

Haryana removes barricades at Shambhu border after farmers' eviction

Following the eviction of protesting farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri border points, Haryana security personnel on Thursday started removing cemented barricades, which were erected to prevent......

'India Has No Need To Support Baloch Movement'

'When so many young Baloch men and women are willingly volunteering as fighters and even suicide bombers.' IMAGE: Women supporting the Balochistan Yakjehti Committee at a protest in Karachi, March......

5 ways to reduce farm distress

'By 2020 around 34% of India's population will be in the 15-34 age group.''More than 70% of them live in rural areas.''Their energy and enthusiasm need to be tapped in order to meet their......

India will need to find jobs for additional 90 mn: Report

The McKinsey report said faster employment growth at 12 million non-farm jobs annually is needed in the post-Covid period till 2029-30, up from just four million created each year between 2012 and......

Govt outgo on stimulus package is just Rs 2.02 lakh cr

EY said out of the nearly Rs 21 lakh crore package, Rs 8.01 lakh crore is on account of liquidity enhancing measures taken by the RBI since February. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The......

Half full, half empty: 10 years of NREGA

At its peak five years ago, it was a lifeline for 5.5 crore, or one in every three rural homes The fruits of a people’s movement and the world’s largest anti-poverty public works, the......