South Koreans blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin and biased judging at the Sochi Games after their top skater Kim Yuna was denied back-to-back Olympic golds by Russia's Adelina Sotnikova.
A look at Indian celebs who got bowled over by foreigners!
'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.' 'Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!' 'Nobody would have believed it. but she did it.'
Singer, song writer, and a single mother Manasi Scott wears her heart on her sleeves and tells Rediff.com's Anita Aikara why eve-teasing is a universal problem.
This and more news from the world of showbiz in the latest edition of our glamour round-up.
Homecoming fuses the kinky-swiftness of the original superhero movies with the silly concerns of a 2017's teenager, points out Sreehari Nair.
'You take so much advantage of your body. You eat, drink, sleep, smile, travel, talk, have sex -- you use this body for everything. Then why not look after it so that you can use longer?' 'You owe it to your body to treat it well. This is what I believe in.' Anil Kapoor reveals his youthful secret.
Raja Sen gives us a hint: It was all because he used a coin wisely.
Fans share their Sridevi memories...
If doing business in India is a problem for even the richest, most educated scion of a business house, it is unlikely to be a breeze for the average rural Indian woman.
For a person who hasn't overdosed on a TV series for decades -- not since the delightful Friends, and much further back, the homily-laden Hum Log or the excellent Buniyaad or Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi -- Game of Thrones has been a game changer for me, writes Shuma Raha.
These hotties show you how to nail the perfect holiday style.
'Shriya and I are good friends. There is nothing more to it. All the actresses are so beautiful. I like all of them. If I have to pick, it would be Jacqueline Fernandez because I have met her a few times on Jhalak. I am comfortable around her.' Dwayne Bravo gets candid.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'I think we have had these periods of standoffs with China.' 'And there is enough knowledge, enough experience, enough wisdom still available to be able to retrieve situations.'
Part of what make Ee.Ma.Yau so special is its ability to focus our attention on things that conventional movies throw away under the pretext of storytelling, says Sreehari Nair.
Purani Jeans lacks vision, originality and the spunk one expects from a college romance film, says Paloma Sharma.
'A heavy tanker takes time to move, but when it starts rolling, it's difficult to stop it,' Indian Hotels CEO Puneet Chhatwal tells Shyamal Majumdar.
Experts pick the most effective advertisements of the year.
Welcome Back is dumb yet entertaining, utterly silly but made with a kind of absurd, warm energy, says Raja Sen.
"A writer must be like a sponge. I absorb everything from different parts of life."
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's Bareilly Ki Barfi had the critics reaching for the stars. But that is just the tip of the iceberg discovers Rediff.com's Savera R Someshwar.
Conversations with her bestie in the bathroom and other Dosti tales from Tista Sengupta.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Rediff's Love Guru addresses relationship problems and offers solutions.
Beyond colossal loss of human lives, if there is anything perhaps equally overwhelming in Nepal's earthquake tragedy, it is the monumental damage the country's iconic heritage has suffered due to the calamity.
Boyhood will open your mind a little bit more toward the possibilities great cinema holds, says Raja Sen.
VTV Ganesh's Inga Enna Solludhu is a total waste of time, write S Saraswathi.
Stay away from theatres, I'd say. 50-kos away, even.
'After having rejected and sometimes also being rejected by 32 men in my unsuccessful journey to matrimony, I prayed that it would be love at first sight with motherhood,' says Priya Ramanathan.
An insecure, dominating, assertive man is the furthest thing from what it takes to make a good partner, says Avantika Debnath
Two people can be reasonably happy if they tried sincerely, says Love Guru.
Meet Namrata Jain, the first UPSC topper from Naxal-affected Dantewada
'I used to be humiliated.' 'If I would approach an actor, he would just say hello and then turn away.' 'That's when I understood the whole game of the industry.'
Rediff reader Rushilla tells us how she fell in love with Rishi and why their bond is so strong.
EyeEm, a global community and marketplace for photography and video, is in the middle of its fourth and largest photography competition yet.
The outcry over the judging in the women's Olympic figure skating competition took a new turn on Friday when South Korea's skating union requested an investigation into whether it was run fairly.
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