The Xuan Zang (Huan Tsang) memorial hall in Bihar's Nalanda was inaugurated on Monday to mark the strengthening of Indo-China cultural friendship. The holy relics of Huan Tsang, 7th century Chinese......
L N Mishra was the first Cabinet minister to be assassinated in Independent India. After Monday's judgment, almost 40 years after the murder, the minister's son tells Rediff.com why the government......
So who really is Narendra Modi? Do we really know him? Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com's ready reckoner on the mystery man who is India's new prime minister. So who really is Narendra Modi? Do we really......
The once-12-years in Maha Kumbh Mela that began in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Monday, is expecting a massive gathering of more than 100 million devotees, god-men and tourists duirng the 55-day mega......
Millions of people, mostly Hindu pilgrims and god-men, have gathered at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, to wash their sins after taking a dip at the Triveni Sangam, or confluence of holy Ganga,......
China, mindful of its global image, has rebutted as 'inaccurate' the recent 'Tax Misery Index' released by Forbes, asserting that the nation's macro tax burden remains 'relatively low' compared......
China's monumental showcase, the Olympics, begins on the auspicious Chinese "eighth of the eighth" - August 8, 2008, at 8 pm. Since it won the Olympic bid in 2001, it has pulled out all the stops......
It's not everyday one gets to watch Shilpa Rao live in concert in Mumbai. The Khuda Jaane singer performed at a Mumbai mall for the first time. Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com captures photographs......
IMAGE: PSG's Kylian Mbappe, right, and Chinese Olympic diving champion Zhang Jiaqi became godparents on Thursday to two baby pandas born at a French zoo earlier this year. Photograph: Sarah......
But India's two mixed doubles pairs were knocked out in the first round on the opening day of the World Badminton C'ships Parupalli Kashyap. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Indian......
Ajay Jayaram got off to a rousing start in the men’s singles at the World Badminton Championships, shocking higher-ranked Wing Ki Wong of Hong Kong, in Guangzhou, China, on Monday. The......
Yuki Bhambri and his partner Ryler Deheart advanced to the doubles quarter-final of the ATP Challenger event after their second-seed rivals Evgeny Kirillov and Alexandre Kudryavtsev retired mid-way......
Rising Indian shuttler P V Sindhu pulled off an upset over former world No 1 Shixian Wang of China to storm into the women's singles quarter-finals at the Badminton Asia Championships in......