'As He Was Taken To The Gallows, He Proclaimed 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'

Standing near the noose, he recited a couplet in which he said he wished nothing but to sacrifice his life for the motherland.Utkarsh Mishra remembers Ram Prasad Bismil on the revolutionary......

ED raids shouldn't cause change in people's behaviour: RSS chief

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said that a change in the demeanour of people should not happen because of police or Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids, but should......

IN PIX: Popular Ganpati pandals in Pune

Rediff.com brings you the five most visited Ganesh mandals in Pune. The Kasba Ganpati is the residing deity of Pune.  There was rivalry among the various mandals regarding the privilege of......

When the British arrested Annie Besant, who, with Tilak, demanded Home Rule

Dr Annie Besant, an Englishwoman, was part of India's freedom movement. 100 years ago, she was placed under house arrest by the British in a bungalow in Ooty.It was here she unfurled the Home Rule......

Give up 'ostrich-like' attitude in drought handling: SC tells states

  In a strong indictment of Centre and states’ handling of the drought situation, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said if state governments maintain an “ostrich-like......

No more Gandhi tags on schemes, Modi looks for new names

Official data show as of 2012, of the 49 schemes and institutes named after eminent personalities, 16 were after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, five after Indira Gandhi, and two after......

Sadashiv Amrapurkar's finest performances

Veteran actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar, who breathed his last this morning at Kokilaben hospital in Mumbai, will be remembered for his remarkable ability to make us both adore and abhor him with his on......

Ayushmann Khurrana: Best part about being an actor is...

'...That you don’t have to introduce yourself. You don’t have to carry a visiting card,' Ayushmann Khurrana tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com. We still know him as the Vicky Donor actor. But......

Can India host the 2032 Olympics?

'The Mumbai-Pune Olympics will be help shift the country's gaze to a region that denotes a new formula for sports, enterprise, and nation building,' argues Shashank Mani Tripathi. IMAGE: The......