The Indian American Leadership Initiative and Democratic Party activists and political operatives, have rounded up Mike Pompeo, Republican Congressional candidate in Kansas' District 4, for using Twitter to direct his followers to a blog posting, which he said would be 'a good read' that attacks his Democratic opponent Raj Goyle in a most vile, racist and bigoted manner.

Parzania director Rahul Dholakia aces once again in his take on Kashmir.

If the government can act against sympathisers of Naxalites, it should act against khap sympathisers too, Supreme Court advocate Kamini Jaiswal tells Sreelatha Menon

Pravesh Bhardwaj on his directorial debut.

With Father's day coming up on June 20, we invited readers to share their favourite memories of their dad with us. Here are some of the responses we received. Share yours!

The Congress' 206 parliamentary seats in last year's election had unleashed a wave of optimism but that feel-good mood is now a thing of the past, writes Harsh V Pant.

Opening up borders between India and countries like Bangladesh can make the North-East region the fulcrum of India's 'Look East' policy.

By embargoing Bt brinjal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh may have done a greater service to democracy than he intended, says Praful Bidwai.

It is critical that we get past the stigma of mental illness, says Nisha Chhabra.

While RGV's Phoonk has a sequel, here's a quick run through ten Twos that really, awesomely, delivered.

In conversation with rediff.com, Shobhaa De discusses her soon-to-be released book S's Secret, a fictional work targeting Young India.

Twenty nine-year-old Suresh Paryani, who operates India's first executive assistant service, believes that there is a growing need for someone to be at your beck and call.

'The dissemination of violence, of terrorism, has its origin in Pakistan,' says Christophe Jaffrelot.

'Operation Green Hunt is nothing but an operation to get the tribals out of their villages. The paramilitary forces and Salwa Judum are attacking innocent old men, women and children,' says Gandhian Himanshu Kumar.

On Tuesday, yoga guru Ramdev Baba became the first non-Muslim cleric addressed the annual convention of Islamic seminaries under the guidance of Islamic organisation Jamait-e-Ulema Hind at the historic seminary in Deoband, about 500 km from Lucknow, which is known for its sweeping influence over majority of Sunni Muslims in the country.

Eight acclaimed professors tip you off, right from politics to picking the right teacher.

The Indian American Leadership Initiative, founded by political activist Varun Nikore a decade ago to promote Indian-American participation in the mainstream political process and to support the community's candidates at the local, state and national levels, formally launched its political action committee on Capitol Hill in September-end.

An exasperated Andy Roddick said the ATP men's tour must give players more time to rest during the season or risk shortening their careers.

Mumbai-based Hindi rock band Prayag has jammed the length and breadth of India. And still, they all hold down day jobs!

Sheela Bhatt on whay India's main Opposition party expelled one of its founding members.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh's biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, out on Sunday, promises to be much discussed.

You could almost say the name Sonia Gandhi evokes more awe in Italy than it does in India. The prevailing admiration appears rooted in the fact of what she, born Sonia Maino to a building contractor Stefano and housewife Paola, has been able to achieve within the Indian political context despite being alien in origin.

In a tete-a-tete with rediff.com, model Carol Gracias gets candid about her career, her personal life and a few of her favourite things.

Harinder Baweja, editor (news) of Tehelka.com, argues that the main reason that a resolution of this problem had been elusive was because of "India's mind-set."

Dr Singh played well on rhetoric; after playing dove, he satisfied the hawks too.

With a 13 per cent rise in quarterly profit, India's third-largest software services exporter, Wipro limited, said on Wednesday that it was adapting successfully to the global meltdown.

Rajeev Khandelwal shares his favourite dialgue from Amitabh Bachchan's Kalia.

Two hugely awaited Kannada films Chamakaayisi Chindi Udaayisi and Kabaddi are releasing on July 3

Santosh Naik, managing director and chief executive of Disha Direct Marketing Services Pvt Ltd, offered some valuable tips during a chat on rediff.com on Friday.

Business management guru Ram Charan's new book, Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty, advises managers to get lean and mean during downturns.

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Mumbai Indians assistant coach Praveen Amre on the challenge of the second Indian Premier League season and his team's chances.

The 3-D animation film by DreamWorks featuring voices of Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland and Seth Rogan is expected to be a huge hit.

Surrounded by failed States and terror dens, India needs a strong leadership that will not hesitate to take punitive action against the erring State or non-State 'player' and organise the strength to withstand a spill over. Wars and inner conflicts are not won with machines. You got to have a heart that's firm and courageous. The war machine's role is secondary.

When Bollywood takes a crack at children's cinema, it usually does so with such condescending formulaic tripe that it's hard to sit through the forcefed emotions and the like. Billu is definitely a more sincere product, one that tries hard to keep the story and morals straight, and let the rest work on its own.

Britain's top space expert Nick Pope hailed the new evidence of life as "the most important discovery of all time". He said: "What could be more profound than to know it's not just us out there?"

Just because we had a good election, if we think the Kashmir problem is over then we are taking things too much for granted. Somewhere or the other serious issues will start cropping up. It can be in the assembly, it can be by coalition partners, it can be by the Opposition parties and it can be raised by separatists or it can be by artificial insemination by Pakistan, says A S Dulat

'Regrettably, the UPA government seems to be caving in to pressures from the BJP to adopt a macho, national-chauvinist, to-hell-with-civil-liberties stance to show that it has the will to fight terrorism.'

SRK reacts to being listed among the top 50 most influencial men in the world.

Raja Sen advises Aditya Chopra not to make a film that feels over a decade old.