US-Canada border crossings shut after car explodes killing two

Two people were killed in a 'vehicle explosion' at the United States-Canada border crossing near Niagara Falls in the afternoon hours on Wednesday, CBS News reported citing sources. IMAGE: A......

Aristotle Would Have Envied Ivan

Ivan Menezes and Arvind Subramanian -- whose birthdays were separated by a month and 3 days in 1959 -- became close friends attending the economics course at St Stephen's.Ivan went on to be a......

Kejriwal Is Eyeing 2027 Gujarat Poll

That AAP managed a sizeable vote share in Gujarat is creditable.The BJP can no longer ignore AAP's growing presence in its strongest bastion, explains Ramesh Menon, long-time observer of Gujarat......

Freebies: Nothing Called A Free Lunch

To help the country emerge as a true welfare State, political parties must put the country's interests first before strategising to win elections and short-term goals, argues Ramesh Menon.......

Largecap, midcap cutoff surges over 26% in latest Amfi classification

The rally in the equity markets in the second half of 2023 has led to a sharp surge in the cutoff for stocks to qualify as largecaps and midcaps. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com On the......

90% of Nifty 500 stocks trade above 200-DMA; time to be selective: Analysts

Nearly 90 per cent of the stocks comprising the National Stock Exchange Nifty 500 Index and 49 of the 50 stocks that make up the Nifty50 are trading above their respective 200-day moving averages......

Diageo's India-born CEO Ivan Menezes passes away

Ivan Manuel Menezes, the India-born CEO of the world's biggest spirits company Diageo, died on Wednesday, days after being hospitalised for treatment of stomach ulcer. Photograph: Reuters Menezes,......

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,......

'Ours is called the land of Kama Sutra, but what happened?'

'Where did that go?' IMAGE: Priyanka Bose and Mohit Agarwal in Kanu Behl's Agra. Kanu Behl's first film as director, Titli, a gritty family drama, premiered at Cannes in 2014 and was released in......

Saudi Vellakka: Every Face Counts

I thought Saudi Vellakka a glancing, loving depiction of the judicial system as a pageantry filled with performers trying to do right by everyone, do everything by the book, and failing despite......

'This too shall pass...'

'I hope you're all keeping safe and not taking any risks at all.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Anusha Dandekar/Instagram 'This too shall pass...' assures Anushka Dandekar.   Photograph: Kind......

Which celebrity couple has the best chemistry?

Not in real life, of course. Remember what Mad Men ad guru Don Draper said? 'Advertising is based on one thing -- happiness.' And who better to peddle it than Bollywood's head-over-heels in love......

IPL 2024, CSK vs RCB: Southern Derby set to kick off season 17

IMAGE: Chennai and Bengaluru will face off in the IPL 2024 opener on Friday. Photograph: RCB/CSK/X The high-stakes match between cross-city rivals Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers......

Mom and dad were literally crying: Emotional Tilak Varma

IMAGE: Tilak Varma was handed his maiden T20I call-up for the upcoming Windies tour. Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters It was in the deep hours of Wednesday night Namboori Tilak Varma shared the......

Indian swimmer conquers Sea of Galilee with World mark

Aryan Singh Dadiala started his swim at 5.18 am on Friday, when it was pitch dark and extremely cold, and finished the challenging course at 11:33 am, equalling the existing World record of the......

Nikhat Zareen boxing her way to glory one title at a time

IMAGE: Nikhat Zareen became only the second boxer after Mary Kom to win two World titles. Photograph: Kind courtesy BFI MC Mary Kom had once angrily asked, "Who Nikhat Zareen?" Having......