'You are ruining an entire generation'

'We are calling companies to set up assembly plants for mobile phones while all the components are imported.''Only the last turn of the screwdriver is done here. And you call it self-reliance,......

'Incredibly enriching': Modi takes sortie on Tejas jet

Clad in an olive green fighter pilot G-suit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took to the skies in the homegrown Light Combat Aircraft Tejas after which he said the experience has bolstered......

Modi strongly condemns civilian deaths in Israel-Hamas war

New challenges are emerging from the incidents in the West Asia and it is time for the countries of the Global South to talk in one voice for greater global good, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said......

Here's what Modi discussed with Biden

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden discussed all pressing challenges confronting the global community in their talks and exchanged views on how India and the United States could......

End of a dream! Sony-Zee's $10 billion mega deal called off

Sony Group Corp on Monday said it is calling off a $10 billion merger of its India unit with Zee Entertainment, following a stalemate over who will lead the merged entity. Photograph: Dado......

Fixed broadband may trigger next leg of growth for Jio, Airtel: Analysts

Shares of telecom services providers – Reliance Industries (parent of Reliance Jio), Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea – have shed up to 23 per cent so far in the current calendar year......

Meta hires ex-Tata CLiQ CEO Vikas Purohit to head global biz

Social media platform Meta has appointed Vikas Purohit as Director of Global Business Group in India to lead the strategy and delivery of the charter that is focused on the country's leading......

How Reliance Retail plans to become 'atmanirbhar'

A few days ago, Reliance Retail surprised the market by acquiring the Campa brand from Delhi-based Pure Drinks Ltd for Rs 22 crore. Photograph: PTI Photo A successful cola brand in the eighties,......

How Netflix Finally Got It Right In India

Its success script: Investing more in local content ecosystem; growing its partnership footprint. IMAGE: Netflix's Guns And Gulabs, directed by Raj and DK, starring Rajkummar Rao, Dulquer Salmaan,......

Will Disney Exit India?

Disney Star India, bought at a valuation of $15 billion, could be on the block for roughly one-third that amount. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters For the first time since it entered India in 1993,......

Bollywood Bets On Sooryanvanshi Effect

vSurajeet Das Gupta reports. IMAGE: The PVR theatre in Mumbai. Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar for Rediff.com   Can Bollywood, battered for nearly two years by Covid, get back on its feet and......

10 OTT Shows To Watch

As cinemas remain shut and watching movies on the big screen still a distant dream, OTT platforms are keeping us distracted from the pandemic with its steady supply of content. There's old stuff.......

Bid to hasten my recovery during WC led to prolonged rehab: Hardik

'My injury kind of expanded more and the question was that 'do I want to represent India at 50 per cent?'. IMAGE: Hardik Pandya admitted that his bid to make a comeback during the World Cup......

IOC bans Russian Olympic Committee

IMAGE: Thursday's ruling does not affect any decision on Russian and Belarusian athletes' participation at the Paris 2024 Olympics which the IOC will take at a later date. Photograph: Kind......

'Gold is gold, had tears in my eyes': Smriti gets candid

'This is a really special feeling because we don't get the chance every day to win a Gold medal, especially at a stage like the Asian Games' Photograph: Kind Courtesy Team India/X Star Indian......

IPL teams, players donate for COVID-19 relief efforts

Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI/IPL   In response to the terrifying surge of COVID-19 cases in the country, Indian Premier League teams have joined the effort to fight the crisis by announcing......

How leg-spinner Poonam Yadav 'turned' it around

'Within myself I had the belief I would make the comeback in time. The good thing is I got hurt about one-and-a-half months before the World Cup.' IMAGE: India's Poonam Yadav celebrates after......