. Shameem Akthar, yoga acharya trained with the international Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Center, takes you through five poses that guarantee flexibility.
Leading stock exchange BSE has initiated a process of putting in place a new risk-based model for supervision of market entities including brokers, taking forward a new model proposed by regulator Sebi in this regard.
'The road from Zhangmu via Nyalam to Tingri is everything a Himalayan drive should be. With tall peaks as the backdrop, switchbacks yielding to roads that stretched into eternity, passing by some of the most scenic views on the planet.'
The manifesto, on the lines of the party's promise in Delhi in 2015, also says the AAP government will set up Aam Aadmi canteens at sub-division and district levels where one time meal will be available for Rs 5, and reduce the power tariff to half for usages up to 400 unit.
In the present prime minister, the BJP has its weakest possible opponent. Why don't they just let him stay, asks A Ganesh Nadar.
'Farmers are like living corpses in India.'
'When Sultan released, I got greedy. I decided to make another film with Salman because he gets me a lot of box office.'
FM may announce a credit guarantee fund for Farmer Producer Organisations.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the serial blasts that claimed 18 lives in Mumbai on Wednesday night were a grim reminder "that India continues to be high on the terror list of terror outfits operating from Pakistan". "My heart goes out to the families of those who have lost their near and dear ones in this dastardly attack. No amount of condemnation is going to satisfy our sense of anger," he said.
Biometric authentication is based on the unscientific and questionable assumption that there are parts of human body that does not age, wither and decay with the passage of time.
'AAP's role in history will not be judged by the kind of administration it provides.' 'If it could change the system, if it could change the very nature of the establishment, only then will it be remembered in history.'
I'm still rooting for you, because you may yet be able to do something good for Delhi. But you and your party will have to get a reality check and some discipline, says Mitali Saran.
'In the short to medium term, the Myanmar raid will impose caution on Pakistan in planning another 26/11-like adventure. As a result of this caution, even if the proxy war ebbs, it will reduce the danger of escalation to a nuclear stand-off,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A wristwatch was used to trigger the explosives in the Pune coordinated serial blasts, as evidence gathered by investigators on Thursday appeared to point to the involvement of homegrown terror group Indian Mujahideen.
Two athletes saw their Olympic hopes cut short on Sunday after being suspended from the London 2012 Games for using banned performance-enhancing drugs, taking the tally of doping offenders after two days of competition to three.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has sent a circular to the state associations that all domestic cricketers intending to play in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League will have to come through their respective state association.
As the Jan-Dhan scheme completes a month since its official launch, reports coming in from various parts of the country suggest the stated target of 75 million new accounts will be achieved much before January 26 next year.
The Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (Irda) is planning to cap the charges on universal life policies, or ULPs. These have almost replaced unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) in terms of new business. Ulips, which used to account for around 80 per cent of the segment, lost their sheen after the regulator brought in stringent norms from September 1.
For those of us who are young and have moved away from our families to work in different cities, the challenges are frequent and many. And looking for a house takes topmost priority.
The ICC termed the recent spot-fixing allegations involving Pakistani players as a "warning" and said it will recommend a wide-ranging and, if necessary, independent review of the current anti-corruption measures to maintain the integrity of the sport.
Mahindra Satyam had filed a lawsuit in a New York court against Upaid, seeking to make it solely responsible for any tax liability arising from an out-of-court settlement reached by them.
Following recent changes to the guidelines for unit-linked insurance plans, companies are likely to focus more on single-premium products.
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa travels to Bhatkal on Karnataka's west coast to investigate how a quaint town turned into a hotspot. Bhatkal has been in the news since the Indian security agencies zeroed in on terror links to this town.
'It's scary to know that those arrested passed on sketches of warships etc to the ISI.' 'Who are the people behind the masks? Are they hiding in our various defence units?'
The airline, which flies to 10 Indian destinations and has 184 flights each week, announced several attractive schemes to cater to the summer rush to attract Indian holiday travellers to fly to Dubai and beyond.
Four leading hotels in Coimbatore have received e-mails in the name of Al Qaeda threatening to bomb them and demanding huge sums as protection money. The police suspect this to be the handiwork a Nigerian gang.
Rama Krishna Sangu, partner, Manohar Chowdhry & Associates, Chartered Accountants, and a member of the Indirect Tax Committee of ICAI, fielded readers' questions on GST on Rediff Chat.
Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Bajaj Auto have noted a rise in these incidents.
Former captain Butt, 27, and opening bowlers Asif, 28, and 19-year-old Mohammad Amir, who had already admitted his part in the scam, plotted to bowl deliberate no-balls at pre-arranged times during the Lord's Test in August last year.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha, party member Brinda Karat claimed that Headley, earlier a drug smuggler, worked as an undercover agent of the US intelligence agency CIA since 1999 and the US government helped him make frequent trips to Pakistan.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist has expressed serious concern over Indian investigating agencies not being allowed to interrogate Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley and sought to know what steps the government is taking into the matter.
The move comes a full four years before the deadline set by the Reserve Bank of India.
Australia on Tuesday promised to apply "full force of law" against those responsible for attacks on Indians in the country as External Affairs Minister S M Krishna raised the issue of their safety with his counterpart Stephen Smith.
Ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil was used as the explosive cocktail in the bombs that went off on in Mumbai on Wednesday. Detonators and timer devices were employed and mobile phones used to trigger the blasts. As terrorists continue to get more and more innovative with their 'explosive' choice, India seems to lag behind as it grapples to counter them with an Explosive Acts dating back to 1884. Vicky Nanjappa reports
A K Bhattacharya digs into the yet-to-be-public report on ways to curb black money and finds out that Modi's next moves could include action on dabba trading, hawala, and education.
The Four Corners programme of ABC News reported on Monday night that hundreds of private colleges in Australia were offering courses such as hairdressing and cooking, luring Indian students with false promises of permanent residency.
In yet another racial attack on Indian students in Australia, a 22-year-old Sikh youth was assaulted by a group of six teenagers, who tried to remove his turban and cut his hair. Resham Singh, a student who came from Punjab six months ago, became the 20th victim within a month, when he was attacked on Monday at Dandenong Station in Melbourne.Singh, who could not speak English properly, explained in Punjabi, "They tried to remove my turban and cut my hair."
"We want the government to increase the limit from Rs 1 lakh to around Rs 1.40-1.50 lakh, since investments in housing, education and mutual funds also qualify under the same limit. People will not like to invest in long-term plans when they get a similar exemption on a short-term policy. The limits will be increased on products with a minimum lock-in period of five years," said S B Mathur, secretary general, Life Insurance Council.
A Bangladeshi man with alleged links to Al Qaeda was arrested in New York after an undercover operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation foiled his plot to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb and blow up the city's Federal Reserve Building. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to Al Qaeda.
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