After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
The human mind is an enigma and there can be myriad reasons for a man or a woman to die by suicide, the Supreme Court has said while acquitting a man charged with abetting the suicide of his......
For four decades, his voice united millions of Indians for an hour every Wednesday as he brought Hindi cinema's greatest songs in an unparalleled radio broadcast. Illustration: Dominic......
Rajasthan minister Shanti Dhariwal has said love affair was a reason behind many suicide cases among students, including a 16-year-old girl who died at her hostel recently, provoking her father to......
'Oommen Chandy always had time for his people and valued their voices.''There was no rest for him as long as the betterment of his fellow citizens was at stake.'Ambassador Venu Rajamony, who knew......
'If the RBI blesses us with a banking licence, we would like to launch a successful bank,' Sachin Bansal tells Bibhu Ranjan Mishra.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com It might just be a......
Photograph: Kind courtesy Vikrant Massey/Instagram In a shocking revelation that has left the film industry in disbelief, Vikrant Massey has announced that he will retire from acting after 2025.......
'When you are in love, you are preoccupied just with that.''Nothing else registers. It's like being drugged.' IMAGE: Rekha in Sheshnaag. The youthful Rekha turned 70 on Thursday, October 10. The......
'This story has been always there since my childhood because of missing people.''I remember a family member who disappeared and I kept wondering what happened to him.' IMAGE: Gugun Kipgen in......
Watching Aavesham is like sprinting through the whole history of our mass-masala movies and seeing it in a new light, notes Sreehari Nair.And this, incidentally, is the story of Fahadh Faasil's......
'I'm talking about that predator in your house, and how one should protect one's children from him.' IMAGE: Geetika Tyagi in Yes Papa. Sexual abuse of children by family members is rarely......
Photograph: Kind Courtesy PR Sreejesh/Instagram First he hated her -- for being better than him at school. But as it happens in Bollywood movies, "hate" was followed by love. That's how the......
'I was a chubby kid and opted for goalkeeping because you don't have to run and bend your back with the stick like other hockey players.' IMAGE: P R Sreejesh is India's first choice goalkeeper for......
IMAGE: Set to don India colours, Rinku Singh opened up on his check list. Photograph: BCCI Rinku Singh speaks in a matter of fact manner, just like his evening job under arc-lights -- smoke the......
IMAGE: Protests are being held by the top wrestlers as they demand the arrest of WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual harassment of seven female wrestlers, including one minor.......
IMAGE: Wrestlers warm-up during their sit-in protest in Jantar Manter in Delhi. Photograph: PTI The ad-hoc panel of the IOA is likely to allow the state wrestling associations to field deserving......