Jonatan Christie gifted Indonesia the Asian Games gold medal they most yearned for when he beat Taiwan's Chou Tienchen in an exciting men's singles badminton final in front of a vociferous home crowd on Tuesday.
20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history. Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of that unforgettable game at the Eden Gardens.
Aseem Chhabra introduces us to the best of Berlinale.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Noting that it was his government that had recommended a CBI probe into the actor's death, Kumar said the incident saddened both the state and the country.
The loss to policyholders due to massive mis-selling of insurance policies by trusted private sector and public sector banks will be well in excess of Rs 2 trillion, warns Harsh Roongta.
'They (the government) want to tame everything.' 'The entire systems they are trying to change.'
'Rahul Gandhi has personally paid a heavy price for this character assassination and remorseless ridiculing and the Congress, of course, has been demolished politically.'
Here is a look at some of Aseem Chhabra's favourite memories of 2020 in Hindi cinema, performances by well-known and new actors, special moments in films and shows.
MAMK's music is very Bollywood in its appeal. With the quintessential love song, the sad song, the fun and remix songs, it delivers to the brief.
'I am grateful to God that I am alive and he has made me differently-abled for a greater cause,' says Wing Commander Shantanu.
To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair.
Kavitha Kuruganti has been fighting for decades to ensure farmers are respected and get their due from the Indian nation. In order to ensure they don't struggle for a living, she works to ensure sustainable farm livelihoods and farmers' rights.
'He never went to the Bombay industry.'
'In the film she played a chirpy bubbly character. But in person she was quite the opposite. Very dignified, graceful and quiet,' Dharmendra, who starred with Jayalalithaa in her only film, tells Subhash K Jha.
About 147 million Indians use their mobile devices to browse through Facebook
Possibility of higher growth and relatively cheaper valuations makes Street more positive on Infosys, says Sheetal Agarwal.
With Wimbledon scrapped due to the pandemic, a flashback of some of the best moments from the last five championships at SW19.
There are many interesting facts and stats about Dhoni's fabulous career.
Working on the rigorous requirements of five-day cricket will the biggest challenge for his team over the next six weeks, feels Afghanistan coach Phil Simmons
Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
FC Goa co-owners Srinivas Dempo and Dattaraj Salgaocar withdrew their stakes from the franchise, on Friday, surprisingly soon after the Indian Super League Appeals Panel lifted the ban on the duo for "bringing disrepute" to the tournament following last year's final.
The box office report for the year so far ain't good.
Nimit Agarwal, 26 tells us how he went from 84 kg to 65 kg within a year.
Images from Day 1 of the US Open in New York, on Monday.
'Till now, many political parties indulged in Muslim appeasement.' 'This is one experiment, successfully carried out by the AAP, in indulging in Hindu appeasement.'
What was the RBI doing, what was the PNB top management doing, what were the auditors doing, asks Debashis Basu.
'We decided that we would fire our rockets and dive into the valley and get away, making it difficult for the missiles to be fired.'
Purab Kohli sings a Micheal Jackson song as a tribute to him.
Goalkeeper and captain Gianluigi Buffon announced his retirement as the Azzurris unable to qualify for first time since 1958.
'This colliding of worlds is a feature of chawl life in Mumbai, where the clashes in one household often become prime-time television for the neighbours; where the boundaries of good sex, lechery, and incest are frequently blurred,' says Sreehari Nair.
The fandom of Walter Becker was rather obscure, but his death has left a huge void in the music industry.
Much more was expected from the soundtrack of Katti Batti, writes Aelina Kapoor.
'In the last six years, there have been 29,140 fire incidents in Mumbai in which 300 people have died and 925 people have been injured.' 'So, at least 10 to 12 fire accidents take place in Mumbai every day.'
'The worst affected is the electricity supply. A huge number of poles, some 6,000 to 8,000 poles have been damaged completely. That will take a lot of time for restoration.'
Models at Lakme Fashion Week react to the horrific gang rape of a 23-year-old journalist in Mumbai.
We're taking you down memory lane in a flashback of the hottest models who have represented India's first and oldest cosmetics brand.
Rediff reader Sudhinu tells us how she met Aswin and fell in love.
Companies must have a plan to mentor people close to superannuation.
Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"
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