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IPL 2025 Auction: 182 players sold; Rs 639.15 crore spent!

IPL 2025 Auction: 182 players sold; Rs 639.15 crore spent!

Rediff.com25 Nov 2024

The complete list of players sold in the IPL 2025 Auction in Jeddah.

Shamsi opts out of CSA central contract to pursue T20 franchise cricket

Shamsi opts out of CSA central contract to pursue T20 franchise cricket

Rediff.com3 Oct 2024

West Indies award 9 cricketers historic multi-year contracts across men's, women's teams

Why You Must Visit This Mumbai Landmark

Why You Must Visit This Mumbai Landmark

Rediff.com4 Mar 2024

Mumbai's Church of St John the Evangelist or Afghan Church looks today as good as it did 158 years ago.

Pooran, Holder, Mayers skip central deals, eye T20I glory

Pooran, Holder, Mayers skip central deals, eye T20I glory

Rediff.com11 Dec 2023

Nicholas Pooran, Jason Holders and Kyle Mayers have declined to join the West Indies roster for the 2023-24 season.

Fairytale Fights. Fables. Time Travel

Fairytale Fights. Fables. Time Travel

Rediff.com21 Oct 2022

Romance in the nineties, fairytale fights, fables and time travelling between mythological times to modern -- fantasy and reality collide on OTT this week.

Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Queen Elizabeth II laid to rest in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Rediff.com19 Sep 2022

The Queen's coffin then lowered into the royal vault in preparation for her final resting place by the side of her late husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, in an enclave of the historic chapel on her south-east England estate of Windsor.

Jemimah to play for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred

Jemimah to play for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred

Rediff.com29 May 2021

Rodrigues, Kaur, Mandhana and Sharma were also a part of the now-defunct Kia Super League (KSL) in 2019, the ECB's domestic T20 tournament that made way for the Women's Hundred.

WI players pass COVID tests, set for Tour match

WI players pass COVID tests, set for Tour match

Rediff.com13 Nov 2020

West Indies will play three-match T20I series before two Tests against New Zealand starting on December 3 in Hamilton. The first T20I will be played in Auckland on November 27.

Buzz: Pooran, Chase named WI vice-captains for NZ series

Buzz: Pooran, Chase named WI vice-captains for NZ series

Rediff.com12 Nov 2020

Pooran was last seen in action for Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in the IPL, scoring 353 runs from 14 matches.

All CPL players, officials, support staff COVID-19 negative

All CPL players, officials, support staff COVID-19 negative

Rediff.com7 Aug 2020

Every person was tested 72 hours before they travelled in order to ensure that all members of the party were travelling virus free.

Buzz: ICC urges people to donate in Aus bushfire relief fund

Buzz: ICC urges people to donate in Aus bushfire relief fund

Rediff.com8 Jan 2020

News of all that transpired on and off the cricket field

Pollard to lead Windies for India ODIs/T20s; Russell ignored

Pollard to lead Windies for India ODIs/T20s; Russell ignored

Rediff.com29 Nov 2019

Kieron Pollard will continue to lead the West Indies in One-Day Internationals and Twenty20s on the upcoming tour of India, beginning next month, with Nicholas Pooran his deputy in the shorter format and Shai Hope taking over the role of the vice-captain in ODIs.

Superb snaps from Siena International Photo Awards

Superb snaps from Siena International Photo Awards

Rediff.com5 Nov 2019

Gazing upon the prize-winning images of the Siena International Photo Awards 2019 is something of a roller coaster experience. The overall winner is a compelling picture of a boy trying to retrieve his ball behind an armed guard in Liberia, taken by British photographer Jonathan Banks. He was up against some extremely talented competition, as our selection shows.

12 things you may not know about Apollo 11 mission

12 things you may not know about Apollo 11 mission

Rediff.com16 Jul 2019

It has been a half-century since Neil Armstrong stepped out of a lunar module and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969 and declared, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The moment heralded a golden age of space exploration that was set in motion just eight years earlier in 1961, when United States President John F Kennedy promised before Congress to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. Here are some lesser-known facts about the historic first mission:

Six Grey's Anatomy covers! Which one is your favourite?

Six Grey's Anatomy covers! Which one is your favourite?

Rediff.com25 Sep 2018

As the popular series enters its 15th season, Entertainment Weekly brings you six special covers.

Specialty teas become popular with Assam's growers

Specialty teas become popular with Assam's growers

Rediff.com8 Sep 2018

Sale of India's specialty tea varieties from exclusive estates in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are on the rise in the domestic market, and sought after in overseas markets too.

Why the British Museum won't return the Harihara

Why the British Museum won't return the Harihara

Rediff.com18 Jul 2018

'It is vital that objects such as the Harihara -- and collections from South Asia generally -- remain here,' the British Museum tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.

Captain. Leader. Legend.

Captain. Leader. Legend.

Rediff.com23 Jan 2017

Tactical genius, uplifting leader, altruistic individual, a man with unwavering certitude. Dhruv Munjal recounts what made Mahendra Singh Dhoni a great captain.

ISS turns 15: NASA celebrates space station's birthday

ISS turns 15: NASA celebrates space station's birthday

Rediff.com4 Nov 2015

The International Space Station has completed 15 years of continuous human presence.

Argo, Life of Pi win at Oscars 2013

Argo, Life of Pi win at Oscars 2013

Rediff.com25 Feb 2013

The 85th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners.

Milestones to Test match #2000

Milestones to Test match #2000

Rediff.com20 Jul 2011

As India and England prepare to square off in the first Test of the four-match series at Lord's, Rajneesh Gupta presents the many landmarks on the road to the 2000th match of cricket's longest version.

WC warm-up: SA thrash Zimbabwe by eight wickets

WC warm-up: SA thrash Zimbabwe by eight wickets

Rediff.com12 Feb 2011

Round up of the World Cup warm-up matches played on Saturday.

Securing the future of India's second capital

Securing the future of India's second capital

Rediff.com14 Dec 2009

In a rapidly urbanising India, the future of cities is as important a policy priority as the issue of backward areas' development. India needs more viable, modern and cosmopolitan cities and Hyderabad was emerging as one. It has been fortunate so far not to be destroyed by the kind of chauvinism that is contributing to the decline of Mumbai and the slow growth of Chennai, or the politics and economics of negativism that has stunted Kolkata.

Coming up: India-US Education Council

Coming up: India-US Education Council

Rediff.com4 Nov 2009

As part of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's State visit to the United States on November 24, India and the US are planning to announce the convening of an India-US Education Council on the lines of the US-India Business Council, Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal has disclosed.

'Perhaps Gandhi was an inevitability'

'Perhaps Gandhi was an inevitability'

Rediff.com11 May 2007

'The world should never underestimate the extraordinary brilliance and ingenuity of the Indian people nor their ability to adopt and adapt the best of the cultures it sustains,' says historian Andrew Ward.

Oracle to buy Siebel for $5.85bn

Oracle to buy Siebel for $5.85bn

Rediff.com13 Sep 2005

The Siebel acquisition, expected to close early 2006, affects about 4,000 customers.

Unpredictability can beat Australia

Unpredictability can beat Australia

Rediff.com7 May 2005

The reasons behind Australia's dominance: Readers' response.

Is the US hostile to Islam?

Is the US hostile to Islam?

Rediff.com22 Mar 2004

'There is a danger that the US is acquiring a reputation as being hostile to Islam and only interested in controlling and using Muslims for its dirty work,' says George Crile.

Who shall guard the guardians?

Who shall guard the guardians?

Rediff.com24 Jan 2004

Ponting puts Aussies in command

Ponting puts Aussies in command

Rediff.com28 Dec 2003

Hayden, Ponting put Australia on top

Hayden, Ponting put Australia on top

Rediff.com27 Dec 2003

India win Adelaide Test

India win Adelaide Test

Rediff.com16 Dec 2003

Injury forces Zaheer Khan out

Injury forces Zaheer Khan out

Rediff.com12 Dec 2003

Irfan Pathan Jr replaces the fast bowler

Kiwis lose a thriller

Kiwis lose a thriller

Rediff.com3 Nov 2003