Remembering The Yatris Before Rahul

The ultimate consequences of Rahul Gandhi's yatra may be known only in 2024, points out Sudhir Bisht. IMAGE: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kollam, Kerala, September 16,......

The Junk Food Conundrum

Should junk food be sold in Indian schools? Dinesh C Sharma on the Delhi high court case, the outcome of which will impact millions of school children in urban areas throughout the country In the......

10 things you should read about 26/11 verdict

The verdict in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case was extraordinary in many ways. Sheela Bhatt lists the 10 most important things to understand about the judgment. First, as Home Minister P......

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......

Ratan Tata, the accidental startup investor

For Tata group patriarch Ratan Tata, who has invested in over a dozen startups since he hung up his boots from Bombay House, headquarters of Tatas, becoming an investor in upcoming new-age......

Challenges facing the draft food label norms

The regional players are outrightly opposed to the idea, while MNCs are looking for procedural changes that, they say, will align the labelling criteria with global practices. The upcoming draft......

How 4-5% of India's GDP is wiped away every year

Corrosion is a big menace for anything with steel application from rebars in construction, oil and water pipelines, railway track, power distribution poles to automobiles, says Kunal Bose. IMAGE:......

All you want to know about green crackers

The non-viability of green crackers may pave the way for e-crackers. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com T E Narasimhan explores the latest Supreme Court ruling on firecrackers and the......