Kamal Haasan's daughter Shruti gave a lively song and dance performance at a surbuban hotel on July 1 to promote her debut film, Luck.

Varnam is the latest film to join the group of Tamil films like Veyil, Subramaniapuram, Paruthiveeran, Pasanga, etc that are taking an offbeat path. S. M. Raju, one of the producers of Santhosh Sivan's Malayalam film Anathabhadram is turning a director in Tamil with this film.

These women and a handful of others are still a minority in financial and regulatory circles

Seeking to lower temperatures, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said Pakistan is not talking of war or vengeance and that dialogue is the solution for all issues in the region.

But the crucial question is whether our politicians realise the continuous damage that they have inflicted on the unity and integrity of the nation by their recklessness? Do they realise the consequence of the rise of Hindu terror and what caused it in the first place? Do they sincerely believe that the government can effectively protect the minorities through its police, judiciary and other organs of the state?

He helped contain the policy of blindly financing large deficits by printing more money but this may not be enough to contain the current inflationary spiral.

Journalist-cum-desi blogger Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's first book, You Are Here documents the typically chaotic love-life and soul-searching of a 25-year-old Delhi girl, Arshi. We present an excerpt from the book.

The Congress cannot do without the Gandhi-Nehru family, and they ensure the unity of the party. The Congress experimented with a Narasimha Rao and went back to the family. Sonia Gandhi neither faces a threat to her leadership nor a prospect of a split, which her mother-in-law had to contend with. But she will have to show a resoluteness she displayed in early 2004 if the party is to revitalise

Online safety is critical, considering there was an estimated $2 billion of online commercial loss in 2006 due to safety concerns. Here's how to make sure you aren't falling prey to online fraudsters.

Craving for the limelight? Why don't you try the best pastime known to mankind -- gossiping. According to a new research, the gluing chitchat keeps people's behaviour in check because folks want to look good to others and don't want to be thought badly of. Experiments conducted by a team from Queen's University, Belfast, showed that people were more generous if they were told that their actions would be gossiped about.

R K Productions' Yaaradi Nee Mohini, the brainchild of Selvaraghavan, is a must-watch for rom-com lovers.

Once you decide to put your money to work to build long-term wealth, you have to decide, not whether to take risk, but what kind of risk you wish to take. Here are 10 investing rules that can make you rich:

A PhD student at Texas A&M University share some useful tips for writing the all-important statement of purpose.

Penn was working on his computer while the television played in the background. The Democratic National Convention was on. Something made him look up. "It was Senator Obama's keynote, and he said: Especially after 9/11, we should not be divided between blue states and red states. We should be focused on being the United States," Penn said. After the address was over, Penn wondered, like many others, when Obama would run for president.

The international researchers have discovered the PTEN enzyme that keeps immature eggs from ripening prematurely.

Whether the film, which has some of the most notable artists of our times including Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Ian McKellen, along with Daniel Craig, will turn out to be another The Lord of the Rings will depend a lot on word of mouth to a great extent and on the critics for a lesser extent.

The Sri Lankan off-spinner can expect a warm welcome from Australian crowds next month, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said.

Young Uttar Pradesh batsman Suresh Raina is optimistic about staging a successful comeback to the Indian team.

Former India batsman Pravin Amre on India's triumph in the Twenty20 World Cup and Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy.

The students will spend four to five hours daily in assisting the MPs by getting them required inputs in a timely manner

Chindu Sreedharan, UK PhD student and university lecturer, provides ten helpful hints for surviving the English.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah says there is no national pride attached when you play or work for something like the ICL.

An alternative to oil? Check. Completely green? Check. Economical? Check. So why has the entrepreneur been sued, pilloried, and lampooned?

Institutions of higher learning cannot merely be institutions for the dissemination of knowledge. They must also produce knowledge, says Sudeep Banerjee.

Titan is reaching down to the mass market for both jewellery and watches.

R N Mehra has just returned from Prime Bank where he had gone to foreclose a personal loan. This is the story of his travails and the bank's delay in solving his case.

MESN has set up a carpooling service called Koolpool.

It is disheartening to see the Bush Administration's efforts to hide more and more information from the public eye in the name of security, presumably to 'protect our freedoms'.

Readers pay tribute to their moms

As part of a series of weekly chats on cricket, Prem Panicker appeared on the rediff Chat at 1300 EDT/1000 PDT on December 15.

As part of a series of weekly chats on cricket, Prem Panicker appeared on the rediff Chat at 1300 EDT/1000 PDT on December 8.