Full Text: PM Modi's address to US Congress

Here's the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to a joint session of the United States Congress, delivered on Thursday. IMAGE: US Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the......

Corporate spying: CBI arrests commerce ministry employee

The case of leakage of classified documents from government offices seems to be getting murkier as the Central Bureau of Investigation has now summoned a senior official of Reliance Industries......

Sheena Bora finally makes an appearance

There it lay, a photograph on the desk under a stapler, and later a stamp pad, forgotten, done with, like its subject, a Mumbai Metro One employee who vanished overnight.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel......

How the government is smothering dissident NGOs

Muzzling NGOs is unbecoming of a democracy. Self-confident democracies encourage, indeed applaud, the involvement of citizens’ associations, including NGOs, in social and political......

'India is fastest growing market for SME segment'

'For SMEs, we provide direct data linkages to the enterprise resource planning system, which helps them with efficiency.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shkuru Afshar/Wikimedia Commons India is one of......

ED imposes Rs 100 crore fine on StanChart for FEMA breach

The investigation under FEMA was taken up by ED based on a reference received from RBI to investigate advance remittances received by certain entities for the purchase of the shares of Tamil......

Leading banks among Mumbai's top 10 tax payers

Country's leading domestic and multi-national banks figured among the top10 advance tax paying corporates in Mumbai in 2006-07."Among the corporates, State Bank of India paid the highest advance......

StanChart launches private banking

Standard Chartered Bank on Friday launched private banking operations in the country with focus on entrepreneurs and senior executives with investible wealth of over 1 million dollars (Rs 4.5......

Mumbai to host international marathon

The top ten men's and women's athletes from the world's top 50 marathoners will vie for honours in the Standard Chartered Mumbai International Marathon to be held on January 18, 2004.Minister of......

Mumbai Marathon prize-money raised

If celebrities, reputed athletes and a cheering crowd are not motivation enough for those participating in this year's Mumbai Marathon, then there is an added incentive of increase in prize-money......

Run for a long and healthy life: Powell

The Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai is the medical partner of Standard Chartered Bank, which is the main sponsor of the first Mumbai Marathon, to be run on Sunday, February 15, 2004. They will look......

He runs 147 km non-stop in a day!

Image: Ultra marathoner Arun Bhardwaj. Photograph: Facebook 'After 8 to 10 hours of running, when my body starts paining, I keep thinking about the pain and sacrifice of my mother and it makes my......

This Indian Navyman ran the toughest marathon on earth

Not everyone completes the Badwater Marathon, Breeze Sharma did so, the fastest Indian ever.Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi spoke to the Indian Navyman to find out how he did it. Not every man survives a......