Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set for his second visit to the United Arab Emirates starting Friday as part of his West Asia trip which will also cover Palestine and Oman. Ahead of his visit to the UAE, the prime minister had an offbeat interview with Gulfnews (external link) during which he divulged details about people who inspire him and about his travels. Here are some key takeaways from the interview.
Snacking is largely about fun and to ride on the fun aspect fast food company KFC has added an innovative new product on its menu - chicken popcorn- small morsels of boneless chicken, battered and fried. Indeed, the company has shown a lot of aggression over the past one year, adding new products and opening new outlets.
Readers share their favourite rainy day recipes with us. You can too!
Readers share their favourite rainy day recipes with us. You can too!
We have let a woman of Italian origin rule us through a clever divide of administrative power centres, but far too many of us have not accepted her Indianness. We have every right to reject her politics and her corrupt government, but shouldn't her living most of her life here make her Indian enough?
The prime minister touched the Pakistani prime minister's mother's feet.
Rediff readers share their experiences of eating on Indian trains.
'Trump's sparring with China is good for business,' Raymond's CMD tells Pavan Lall.
The relative ranking of castes can vary across regions and localities and depends on a number of factors including control over land, wealth, and political power. Castes have often tried to 'upgrade' themselves (a process sociologists refer to as Sanskritization), and sometimes get 'downgraded'. A revealing excerpt from Upinder Singh's Ancient India: Culture Of Contradictions.
Make sure you are hydrated and arrange a healthy snack after your workout ends.
It was entirely vegetarian fare at the lunch hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull on Monday.
'Given the first-time healthcare emergency of this nature and scale, we don't have enough experienced hands to deal with the situation.' 'The models, policies and protocols keep changing everyday depending upon the evolving situation.' 'We are all in trial-and-error mode where we do some right things as well as wrong things.' 'We cannot have an ideal environment to fight this pandemic.'
TripAdvisor released its list of Best Fine Dinning restaurants in India. Read on to find out which restaurants made the cut...
Over lunch with Jyoti Mukul, Banmali Agrawala, president and CEO, GE South Asia, discusses how GE is transforming itself into a digital industrial company.
In its interim order, a Madurai bench directed the Centre to file counter in 4 weeks.
It will be like Ghar ka Swad Davos mein for the PM.
'Mrinalini Sarabhai was gracious, well-read, liberal, very secular, and very well informed,' recalls film historian S Theodore Baskaran of the celebrated dancer who passed into the ages last week.
Two entrepreneurs launched iTiffin with an aim to provide low calorie, healthy tiffin service to corporates and individuals.
A virologist answers questions on the deadly virus presently haunting the world.
'We have great demographics, and are the fastest growing large economy. And we save.' 'All of which is great for financial services,' Aditya Birla Capital CEO Ajay Srinivasan tells Niraj Bhatt.
If the BJP wins by getting Hindu voters to consolidate, its opponents can't beat it by bundling together the Muslims and some of the 'others', observes Shekhar Gupta.
'The most important aspect of Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the use of humour to touch some sensitive and potentially explosive political-religious and cultural subjects.'
Presenting a bunch of die-hard foodies from Hyderabad, who are killing it in the food Instagram stakes!
Learn how to cook up for Vegetarian Indian Samosas, Mangalorean-stye Kachoris and Mast Paneer.
A vegetarian cafe in Pune's Koregaon Park, this a no frills place, but one with enough character of its own to make you want to come back for more.
With Padma Lakshmi's svelte figure, it would be difficult to imagine that she loves food. But she balances both well.
'We will resist it.' 'Farmers will not let that happen.'
'So South Indian, it would be idli with... a really good sambar, and then north Indian -- probably any kind of tikka.' Hmm. You can take a girl out her mom's country, but you can't take the country out of the girl!'
Rashme Sehgal took a ride on the Gatimaan Express for you.
A Ganesh Nadar shares interesting vignettes that usually get lost in the heat-and-dust of election coverage.
Organiser, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's organ, has alleged that prestigious institutes like Indian Institute of Technology were being turned into places for "anti-India and anti-Hindu" activities.
"Fish is a good source of protein and it can overcome malnutrition in areas where fish is available in abundance," she said.
Jaitley gathered a group of people and burnt an effigy of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, making him, in his own words, the 'first satyagrahi' against the Emergency.
'She didn't eat beans, disliked spinach, abhorred peas, but mostly she wouldn't eat things the name of which she didn't know, which seemed to consist of the entire vegetable kingdom.' 'For some reason, she finds even dahi unpalatable,' sighs Kishore Singh.
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma suggests ways to calm the stomach.
'Mumbai is the toughest city to shoot a film. The hard part is executing an action sequence in a crowded street accurately. There are people everywhere and all of them are curious to watch the shooting.' Second unit director Dan Bradley talks about working on Sunny Deol's Ghayal Once Again.
He is the living proof that you are never too old to run a marathon.
When Santosh Muruganantham quit his job in the United States to return to India, he knew he wanted to become an entrepreneur.
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