The 15 newsmakers of 2017

Donald Trump, Hardik Patel, Kangana Ranuat… The year 2017 wouldn’t have been the same if it weren't for these personalities and many more. As we herald in 2018, here's a look at the......

Vote: India's newsmakers of 2014

The year 2014 has been an eventful one for India. The country got a new government and a new state, broke new frontiers in various fields and of course its share of controversies.  Rediff.com......

'US very much wants N-deal with India'

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday said that Washington 'very much' wants India to have access to civilian nuclear technology, a position, she said, is also supported by......

12 stories that shook India in 2014

The suicide of an exuberant Mrs Tharoor, the death of a Union minister in a car mishap, the rape of a nursery student in her school… The year threw up quite a few shockers, some rather rude......

Why India's asset monetisation dream may be hard to achieve

India was among the top-five economies with the largest general government capital stock level, said, in 2015, an International Monetary Fund report called "Making Public Investment More......

Huffington Post to launch India edition in May

US-based leading online newspaper Huffington Post is planning to launch an India edition by May this year and negotiations are currently underway to finalise a local partner for this venture. "We......

The man the Greeks hate the most

Wolfgang Schauble has done right by the Euro zone, but the Greeks believe that doesn't necessarily mean he has done right by them. Image: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (right) and his......

Ratan Tata puts his heart into e-commerce start-ups

For internet firms, his presence matters even more than the money that he brings Much before his retirement in 2012, Ratan Tata had probably planned what he would do after relinquishing his......

When Milkha Singh chatted with Rediff Readers

Four years before the arrival of the new century, long before Facebook Live and InstaChats, arrived the Rediff Chat, the Internet's first forum where Readers could chat with Newsmakers. Among the......