Modi's Bengal strike rate: Less than 50%

The BJP's star campaigner could not help even half the number of candidates for whom he campaigned in his aggressive 'Didi-o-Didi' style in Bengal, reveals Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf. IMAGE:......

2006: An eventful year for W Bengal

Singur, the site of the Tata Motors car project, was in the political limelight in 2006 as the issue of farmland acquisition snowballed into a major controversy in West Bengal where the ruling Left......

Fire in Dunlop office

Afour-storied building of Dunlop India Limited housing its district sales office and godown at Mirza Ghalib Street in Kolkata was completely destroyed this morning in a massive fire.Nobody was......

Pawan Ruia throws hat into the ring to buy out Air India

Ruia, a chartered accountant whose business ranged from sugar to textiles and heavy engineering to tyres, refused to comment on queries about his interest in Air India. Illustration: Dominic......

The fall of the turnaround tycoon

Industrialist Pawan Ruia's (think Dunlop and Jessop) arrest this month for cheating and criminal breach of trust marked a new low, but the tide had been turning against him for a while now. Ishita......

The story of Ajit Isaac's entrepreneurial success

Ajit Isaac started as a management trainee at Godrej and then worked with the Essar group briefly before he caught the entrepreneurial bug. Ajit Isaac knows how to standout in India’s......

Has Dunlop left its best days behind?

Dunlop's journey from dominance to dereliction is a reflection of India's business history over the past 40 years. Image: Dunlop tyre. Photograph: Alexander Kaiser/Wikimedia Commons Dunlop is......

Sports Shorts: Sindhu, Saina in Asia badminton quarter-finals

IMAGE: P V Sindhu needed just 33 minutes to get the better of Indonesia's Choirunnisa. Photograph: Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images Ace Indian women shuttlers Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu registered......

Michael Clarke signs new bat-deal

Australian skipper Michael Clarke has signed a three-year bat sponsorship deal and the new bat has been manufactured in a factory in Jalandhar, a North India city. Clarke, who won the toss and......

Clarke set to sign $1m bat sponsor deal

Australian skipper Michael Clarke, who scored an unbeaten triple century against India in the second cricket Test at SCG, is poised to pocket more than $ one million from a new bat sponsor.......

Sponsor's miss the chance to share Clarke's triple ton glory at SCG

Australian skipper Michael Clarke rewrote the record books at the Sydney Cricket Ground with his unbeaten triple hundred against India but his bat went without any sponsor's logo for the first......

Whatmore favourite to replace Pak interim coach Mohsin: Official

A Pakistan Cricket Board official has confirmed that Australian Dav Whatmore, who currently in India's National Cricket Academy, is the front-runner to take over as head coach of the national team.......