News and the common man

The concern is low-budget coverage, not in-depth. Hype replaces substance, breathlessness providing it the requisite gravamen, writes Mahesh Vijapurkar Take the power outages across northern and......

Grab these movies this weekend

Here are five movies to spice up your weekend.Film: Teesri Manzil (Hindi)Cast: Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Helen and Prem Chopra Director: Vijay AnandPlot: Sunita (Parekh) blames Rocky, the drummer......

India's first legal music downloads, on Rediff

Sanjay Maroo stares at me. His image leaps up from the confines of his web site. He looks broody. When I look away for a minute, all I remember is that stare.If you think about it for a minute, the......

When It Was Bradman Versus India

History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, beginning in......

Els applauds Shevchenko's pressure-cooker debut

Former European Footballer of the Year Andriy Shevchenko struggled on his professional golf debut in Ukraine but Ernie Els gave him 10 out of 10 for effort in what was always going to be a tough......

Sparkling 66 earns Mickelson first British Open win

After huffing and puffing at the British Open so often in the past, Phil Mickelson finally blew the house down by romping to a three-shot victory over Swede Henrik Stenson in golf's oldest major on......

Tiger tames Pebble to challenge leader Johnson

Tiger Woods stormed into contention at the U.S. Open with a sizzling back nine on Saturday that put him five shots behind fellow-American Dustin Johnson with one round to go at Pebble Beach.......

Global Cricket Academy will be unique

The ICC Global Cricket Academy will literally break new ground when it opens for business in early 2008..The academy, part of the Dubai Sports City development, will import soil from the United......