Actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson gave a powerful speech on gender equality at the UN on September 20, helping to launch her new initiative, HeForShe.The hit Harry......
Emma Watson has joined a long list of celebrities who are using their fame and stardom to promote social causes as a United Nations’ ambassador. Rediff.com presents a few of the celebs who......
The Limca Book of Records calls her the shortest girl in the country. According to some surveys, Jyoti Amge, 15, who is just 23 inches tall (1 foot, 11 inches) and weighs only 5......
India-born writer Kiran Desai's Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss has been included in the field of contenders for this year's Orange Broadband Fiction Award, in a break with......
India-born writer Kiran Desai, who clinched the prestigious Man Booker prize for 2006, on Wednesday said her win felt "like a family endeavour". "I wrote this book so much in my mother's company it......
Amidst the doom and gloom that global economies are mired in, especially the hitherto booming infotech industry, there seems to be a dim ray of hope on the horizon. Especially for the Indian IT......
What is common to Himesh Reshammiya, Harry Potter, the Wimbledon and the Taj Mahal? An odd collection, isn't it? Himesh Reshammiya -- the man with the cap and the nasal voice. He has been the butt......
April saw a lot of celebs put in that extra effort to look FASHIONABLY FABULOUS! So who got it right and served us some serious fashion goals? Namrata Thakker finds out. Photograph: Kind......
The Archies is an evergreen thought passed on from generation to generation. But Sukanya Verma wishes it had some of the comic's tee-hee humour and hyuk hyuk too. Long before there was cable TV,......
Local superheroes and villains, award winners and hopefuls, a fan favourite from a galaxy far, far away and wizards and witches of Hogwarts regale and rejoice on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists......
'How did Hermoine fall for Weasley?' 20 years after Harry Potter made his debut, Vanita Kohli-Khandekar has some questions for its author. IMAGE: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Circa......
Deepika Padukone looked red hot at the London premiere of her debut Hollywood film xXx: Return Of Xander Cage. Wearing a Stella McCartney gown and Chopard diamond earrings, the actress looked......
The monsoon has suddenly revived in recent days, giving India much respite from the heat. Bikash Mohaptra picks his favourite games to be played on a rainy day. Raindrops keep fallin' on my......
Having battled with a lingering rib injury for the last two months, India's Jeev Milkha Singh has regained fitness and set his sights on the final major of the year and a possible Presidents Cup......
Reader Mitesh sent us this photograph from Singapore. 'I met Roger Federer at Singapore Airport while I was travelling from Melbourne to Mumbai via Singapore. I met him the very next day......