'We are completely engaged in fighting poverty; alas, our neighbour Pakistan seems only engaged in fighting us.''A country that has been the world’s greatest exporter of havoc, death and......
New Delhi bureaucrats, accustomed to leisurely lunches, golf in the afternoon and long weekends, have been shaken out of their somnolence, say authors. Fear and suspicion hang heavy over the......
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political,......
'Politics is turning into gift politics. You are distributing computers, mobiles, tablets while not focusing on production that could provide jobs so that people can sustain themselves...' 'This......
The increasingly loud and belligerent assertion of Beijing's claims in South China has become a matter of strategic concern for many nations for diverse reasons. It comes at a time when nations......
'We need to be far more careful given the fact that while this is group lending, it's essentially unsecured.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become......
The Adani group has exited the financial services business by selling its entire 90 per cent stake in Adani Capital and Adani Housing to private equity (PE) firm Bain Capital for Rs 1,440 crore.......
A bunch of CEOs in their mid-30s and early 40s are trying to rectify the scenario where shady lending applications trap hapless borrowers with astronomically high interest rates and even......
A vast majority of borrowers are in the essential services’ supply chain with tiny and micro businesses, and this has sprung back. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Micro-finance......
For smaller MFIs, resuming operations is more difficult because they haven’t got any fresh bank credit sanctioned from their lenders. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com With the government......
Dream11's catchy television ads dominate the T20I World Cup telecast in India.Neha Alawadhi finds out what the company, which takes cricket very seriously, is up to. IMAGE: Rohit Sharma and......