Rukhsana gets Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha medal

President Pratibha Patil has approved the award of Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak for Rukhsana Kosser, the Jammu girl who braved the bullets of Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants and killed one of them to......

'The best friend god gave me'

Mummy, my super hero!The Veda says, matrudevobhava, pitrudevobhava, acharyadevobhava, atithidevobhava in Sanskrit- mother (matru) always first. Not pita (father), not acharya (teacher), not guru,......

'Goa is a movie in the American Pie genre'

He is hailed as one of the brightest Tamil directors after the unprecedented success of his first film, Chennai 600028. We're talking about Venkat Prabhu, the fimmaker who got lucky with his......

'I overestimated my audience and my film'

Anurag Kashyap's live chat with Rediff Readers on October 29 was quite an interesting one, as the young director tried to explain the finer points of his new film, No Smoking. For those who missed......

Go the Deols!

Reading through all the comments I could feel that everyone was out to get to Bollywood. Not a bad idea because Bollywood is as I can say easily "beatable". What with 800 odd films produced in a......

Hard-working Abhimanyu destined for greatness

‘Congratulations to Abhi for this achievement. He fully deserves this success, as I have seen all of his hard work first hand. His father also deserves praise for the sacrifices he has made......

Magesh, Pratibha maintain lead

InternationalMaster P Magesh Chandran and Y Prathiba maintained their lead with contrasting victoriesin the eighth round of the 26th Asian Junior chess championships in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on......

Magesh Chandran in lead

Second seed International Master P Magesh Chandran rode on luck to end the dream run of Iranian Akbarnia Ahmed Saeed and emergejoint leader on 4.5 points after the sixthround inthe 26th Asian......

Murali Karthikeyan, Rathnakaran make GM norms

Thirteen-year-old Murali Karthikeyan scored his maiden Grandmaster norm after securing a draw with Commonwealth champion M R Lalith Babu in the ninth and penultimate round of the premier section of......

Areshchenko wins title, Humpy second

Ukraine's Alexander Areshchenko clinched the Mayor's Cup International chess title on Sunday after winning the tie-break with three others, including Indian Grand Masters Koneru Humpy and Magesh......