Is The Congress Doomed?

The Congress needs to reorganise itself at the grassroots, infuse younger blood, and have more boots on the ground.Just offering freebies is not the answer anymore, argues Ramesh Menon. IMAGE: A......

Jill Biden's personal touch behind menu and dcor for state dinner

First Lady Jill Biden said after years of strengthening ties, the US-India partnership is deep and expansive as the two countries jointly tackle global challenges. She also previewed to the media......

Pinarayi Vijayan: The CM as crisis manager

The Kerala chief minister's four years in office may well be remembered for the way he handled Cyclone Ockhi, two floods, Nipah, and now COVID-19, reports Shine Jacob. It was May 28, 2016, when......

Meet the 5 richest MPs

A mix of industrialists and businessmen, who have inherited riches or rose from humble backgrounds and even endured boom and bust cycles, the MPs are illustrative of how the political stock of the......

India's 1st smart city is all set to take off in a big way

'Initially, Gift City was just another real estate project, but all that changed with Modi moving to New Delhi,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.   In the last week of May, the National Company Law......

India Inc's overseas borrowing up 6.5% to $2.12 billion in Nov

No capital came in through the approval route, while the rest of $9,86,681 was by way of issuance of rupee denominated bonds. Overall borrowings by India Inc from overseas markets grew 6.5 per......

Market participants demand rollback of higher surcharge on FPIs

During the meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, it was also suggested that employees' provident fund should increase its exposure in the stock market, which in turn would improve......

New risks that threaten short-term debt schemes

Nearly three-fourths of the debt money, as of April 30, 2019, was invested in securities with duration of less than three years. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Mutual funds are facing a......

Looking At 1999: 25 Years Ago In Bollywood...

1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......

Watched These Brilliant Malayalam Films?

Divya Nair lists 2023's Malayalam movies that can be enjoyed by all ages. 2023 was a year of rare hits for the Malayalam film industry. In a country where masala entertainers like Jawan and violent......

Why Aishwarya Is Bollywood's Golden Girl

When a person is blessed with as much beauty as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, it's hard to notice anything else. But in her two-and-a-half-decade-long career, the former Miss World and Cannes red carpet......

Your OTT Date With Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise doing wild stunts. Jamie Foxx donning the hat of a legal eagle. A phone that transports you back in time. Prelude to Halloween. And much, much more. There's a crazy lot to watch on OTT......