'I don't want ISRO to be elitist'

In yet another stand-off between e-commerce companies and state authorities, Kerala’s commercial taxes department has slapped a fine on Flipkart, Jabong, Vector E-commerce Pvt Ltd (which holds a stake in Myntra) and Robemall Apparels Pvt Ltd (which operates zovi.com). The fine, Rs 54 crore overall, has been levied for evasion of sales tax in 2012-13 and 2013-14.  At Rs 47.15 crore, the fine on Flipkart is the highest, followed by Rs 3.89 crore on Jabong, Rs 2.23 crore on Vector ...

New Delhi: President Barack Obama’s schedule is likely to undergo a change and he may now depart from Agra instead of Delhi as authorities have examined the feasibility of his Air Force One aircraft landing in the city of Taj Mahal.Obama, who will be ...

Pulling no punches in her attack against the Bharatiya Janata Partyfor allegedly pursuing ‘political vendetta’ against the Trinamool Congress, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday charged that the Central Bureau of Investigation was being used as a ‘political tool’ by the National Democratic Alliance government and was functioning as ‘a department of the Prime Minister’s Office’. "We are the only party fighting a battle against the ...

Last week’s Railway Budget is the first indicator of possibly better days. What's most important now is that the Railways delivers on this Budget, rues Shyam Ponappa For the first time since the National Democratic Alliance formed the government last year, we have something more than grand aspirational statements to go by. Last week’s Railway Budget is the first indicator of possibly better days, after all the rhetoric. Perhaps the reservations of some former railway ministers and ...

Tired of waiting for hikes and government stipends, research scholars took to the streets against the Union government’s neglect towards raising the fellowship amount in the national capital last week. Sivaranjan Uppala is one of India’s emerging scientists. But instead on being in a lab, he lay on a pavement at Jantar Mantar, and went on a hunger strike until he had to call it off due to health reasons last week. Uppala, a fifth-year senior research fellow at the Indian Institute ...

'The best way to carry on that good man’s legacy is to make films like he did, love cinema like he did, and unearth talent like he did. K Balachanderis frozen forever in Uttama Villain on celluloid,' Uttama Villain director Ramesh Arvind tells Rediff.com contributor Praveen Sundaram. Ramesh Arvind, a veteran actor in Kannada and Tamil cinema will be making his directorial debut in Tamil with Kamal Haasan’s Uttama Villain. Incidentally, his first ...

Don’t be tempted to take up what is on offer simply because it has come to you on a platter and looks promising on the surface, warns Sanjoe Jose, CEO, Talview.com Your first break or the first career move you make is very critical as it can define the path to your entire career. Your future job prospects are based on your previous job and the skills you picked up from it. First time job seekers often tend to make the mistake of taking up the first job they find and later regret it ...

A cross-country journalists’ initiative to identify the account-holders in the discredited institution resulted in the naming of over 1,00,000 of them worldwide, with about 1,000 in India. Last Sunday, Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of global bank HSBC, made a public apology, which was carried in full-page advertisements in several newspapers in the UK. He basically admitted to weak systems in the Swiss private bank that the group owns, which resulted in that entity assisting several ...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley couldn’t have asked for anything better. The minister will get Rs 80,000 crore benefit from money unspent by the government departments, provided to them in the last budget as plan expenditure allocations.The ...