The Biju Janata Dal MP from Dhenkanal says crime will come down if cannabis is legalised. Nikita Puri reports. Even on the phone, Tathagata Satpathy comes across as confident and candid. When I......
S C Chandrahasan is a Sri Lankan Tamil leader and founder of the Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation. He is the son of the late Sri Lankan Tamil political leader Samuel Selvanayagam. He......
Christopher Duncan, an impersonator of American rapper Eminem, was jailed for life for the bloody murder of Jagdip Najran, a law student. Judge David Paget, in a London court, said on Monday that......
A 21-year-old Eminem impersonator, has been jailed in London for the brutal killing of an NRI law student, Jagdip Najran.Christopher Duncan, who dressed like the rapper and had similar tattoos, is......
'The two-word answer is: Proper oversight,' says T N Ninan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The India of the 1980s and 1990s had many dreams: Private TV by satellite or cable, instead of......
What do A-listers like to read, watch or listen to? And who are the people they admire? Here is a list -- IMAGE: The poster of the film Taare Zameen Par. The film is one of the favourites of Amit......
The latest Ambani-sibling fight has now become a political battle. The fight for gas supplies between Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd and Anil's Reliance Natural Resources Ltd has also put......
Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching......
Can Amitabh Bachchan take legal action against his voice impersonations on radio?Will the real Amitabh Bachchan please stand up? It's not Eminem asking, but India's ad audience. Eveready,......
Friendships are not merely severed, but built over scuffles.And just about anything can stir things up -- a long-standing feud, a pointless stare, a disrupted moral stance, a fist that ricochets......
Oscars sans a host is like 'having a trial without witnesses. It moves faster but it's not quite the result you wanted.' Nine-time host Billy Crystal is no stranger to the gig nor is he entirely......
'Which is your favourite scene in the film?' 'The scene where I get beaten up by the police in the lock-up and my friend Murad (Ranveer Singh) comes to meet me.''It was an emotional scene and......
'Gully Boy is a pulsating salute to the new angry India and its youth,' says Aseem Chhabra who watched Zoya Akhtar's movie at the Berlin film festival. In Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy, Ranveer Singh's......
Suicide Squad is less an actual movie and more an assemblage of moments, moments mostly to do with popular music appropriated around shots of spectacle, with every single scene trying to hit a......
IMAGE: Red Bull's Max Verstappen with McLaren's Lando Norris and Mercedes's George Russell. Photograph: Florion Goga/Reuters Formula One leader Max Verstappen is hoping for a quicker Red Bull in......
Barcelona have become the first sports club to reach 50 million followers on social networking website Facebook, the Spanish soccer champions said on Thursday. Barca's Facebook page, which provides......
Bobby Robson was described as a "footballing colossus" as some of the sport's greatest names attended a memorial service for the former England manager on Monday. More than 1,000 people,......
Albie Morkel of the Chennai Super Kings in action during the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 cricket match against the Kolkata Knight Riders in Centurion on Monday. An aggressive 52 by Suresh......
They say, Michael Phelps is as good as Mark Spitz. That, by any yardstick, is saying a lot.The whole world compares him with Spitz, who won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games. While the......