No Muslim arrested for Palghar lynching: Maha HM

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Wednesday said none of the 101 people arrested in connection with the Palghar lynching case is a Muslim, and accused the opposition of......

Challenges and dares mark Punjab's election campaign

In the bitterly fought multi-cornered Punjab assembly election, political leaders across parties are playing the dare game by throwing various challenges at rivals and freely using the outbursts......

Rest In Peace, Onkar Singh, Superman of News

Onkar Singh, a valuable member of the Rediff.com team over the years, breathed his last on January 13.Syed Firdaus Ashraf, who knew him intimately, remembers the ultimate newsman. Illustration:......

E-commerce buyouts: Mahindra, Godrej to leverage on physical stores

The Mahindra and Godrej groups, which have bought niche e-commerce companies in baby care and gourmet food, respectively, want to replicate their business model in physical stores.  ......

Diageo to hardsell core brands in India

Targets women with new offerings such as Baileys cream liqueur and Nilaya. Liquor maker Diageo India is planning a big marketing push for its core brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and newer......

India Inc spot branding opportunity in caller tune

At a time when the use of caller tunes is increasing by the day, corporates have spotted opportunity for internal branding via this facility.Under this system, the caller tune of all the employees......

Coke, Pepsi resume spoof advertising

After a break of nearly two years, the advertising war between rivals PepsiCo and Coca-Cola seems to have begun in right earnest this summer.Late last month, PepsiCo set the tone for this season's......

First Look: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

Abhay Deol has a penchant foroff-beat roles in equally off-beat films (remember Manorama Six Feet Under, Ek Chalis Ki Last Local?). This timearound the actor is playing athief Bunty alias Devendra......

Bollywood's Hatke Hotsteppers

Sweet surprises are made of actors best known for their dramatics taking us by surprise by shaking a leg on screen. Sukanya Verma points to some instances.   Jaideep Ahlawat The Jewel Thief......

A love story called Oye

Oye is a rather odd name for a film but that is the title of Siddharth Narayan's latest Telugu film. And it's got an unusual tagline too which goes like this: "His first love called him Oye".......

Oye is a good film

Sidhdharth has been experimenting with new directors for quite some time. He has once again come out with a Telugu film- Oye directed by Anand Ranga, a first time director. Oyegot a lot of......