Indra Soundarrajan on penning the Tamil TV serial, Yamirukka Bayamaen.
Some 230 kilometres from Kolkata, in West Bengal's Birbhum district, 500 children stand out because of their 'unconventional' education, says Anjuli Bhargava.
Skipper S Ignatius scored the winner in extra time as Kerala beat Punjab 3-2 in the final of the National Football Championship.
Kerala overcame Services 2-0 to move into the final of the national football championship for the fourth time in a row.
Sri Lanka, who were bowled out for 243, fought back to reduce Pakistan to 256 for eight after the second day of the first Test.
We present to you a blow-by-blow account on what happened on the night of May 1, 2011, when the terror mastermind was killed
Beautiful glimpses into Dilip Kumar's life with Saira Banu.
Arthur J Pais charmed her and exasperated her. But, says Vaihayasi Pande Daniel as she bids him goodbye, it is the 'irrevocability' of death that 'stingingly puts into focus what you never realised you would miss terribly.'
It is hard to say who is pursuing the more stupid course -- the CPI-M in Kerala or the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, says T V R Shenoy.
The last week of October and the next two weeks will see many more movie hits in DVD and, in most cases, Blu-ray versions.
Ankoosh Mehta, Solicitor, author and a black belt in Taekwondo talks about opportunities for young law school graduates and about his recently published book on law.
The level of preparedness of Daesh sleeper cells is evident from the fact that it took just four days after Salah Abdelslam's arrest to execute the Brussels attacks, says Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
'By taking on the BJP, is Nitish rewriting the rules of identity politics, more sophisticated than his predecessor Lalu Yadav?'
Modi is as divorced from reality as Manmohan Singh. He might want to sound expansive and visionary, but to be credible he must have his feet on the ground and know the reality around him. Instead of delivering irrelevant homilies to small and hence poor farmers, the prime minister should be thinking in terms of creating a huge demand for alternative employment, mainly in the construction sector, and his promised hundred new cities is a capital idea, says Mohan Guruswamy.
'A family works best when a husband and wife share a 15 to 20 per cent relationship.' 'Sex may not form the central part of a relationship, but to be able to spell out one's desires, even if they are not fulfilled, is what keeps couples together.'
The US economy is facing substantial difficulties. Housing prices have dropped. An increasing number of households are defaulting on home loans. Losses on home loan portfolios are affecting financial firms who hold derivatives on home loans. Some financial firms have gone bankrupt, and there is uncertainty about who else might be bankrupt. With finance in difficulties, the monetary transmission is malfunctioning.
Living up to his promise of presenting a people-friendly Rail Budget, with one eye on the general elections to be held due next year, Indian Railways Minister Lalu Prasad tabled a populist budget in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Captain Timo Wess scored the only goal of the match as the Germans beat Australia in the final.
While the BJP is trying to dwell on the twin issues of development and national security to project Modi as a super administrator and a hardline Hindu leader, to the surprise of many, the Congress is not shying away from issues either -- perhaps for the first time
Deepta Roy Chakraverti talks to Chandrima Pal about her book that chronicles her psychic investigations into what she says are unnatural occurrences in familiar places.
A perception that India has a gigantic problem has suddenly been turned into a perception that India faces a gigantic opportunity
In her new book, The Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett explores Warren's wit and wisdom -- and his pleasure dome.
'Some of the policies NITI Aayog has taken, we feel lean towards the corporates.' 'In a democracy, when you are making a policy decision, you are expected to take the views of all the stakeholders.'
Aseem Chhabra lists the elements that he loved and was pleasantly surprised by in the movies.
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'If ISIS was popular, they don't need to use violence.' 'The strategy of violence is a false interpretation of Islam.' 'The main victims of ISIS violence are Muslims.'
A war hero looks back at the men and the moments that forged India's greatest military victory.
The key to whether the current aversion will extend into the long run is whether the government has a plan to deal with both terror and kickstarting key economic reforms.
The Social Network explores how the social networking site came into being.
Eurozone's financial contingency plan is trying to solve the problem of excessive debt with even more debt.
'We have nothing to gain by helping any other country to become a threat to India,' former Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is on the comeback trail, tells Rediff.com in an exclusive interview.
In a country that depends on imports for more than 70 per cent of its oil and charges retail consumers of petrol and diesel less than half the global market price, the rise in crude this year above $140 a barrel has delivered an economic shock. India's cherished high rates of growth are under threat from soaring inflation and widening deficits on the fiscal and current accounts.
Modi will be the single most significant cause of the Congress's victory in 2014, despite 2G, coalgate, Commonwealth Games, and all the other scams he has forgotten, says A Ganesh Nadar
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