These 'clownselors' heal patients one smile at a time

Volunteers dressed as clowns visit hospitals and old-age homes to spread cheer and dispel the gloom of ill health and old age. IMAGE: A clownselor entertains a child-patient at the cancer ward of......

Samajwadi Party races against time, patch-up efforts fail

Last ditch efforts to salvage the Samajwadi Party from split on Wednesday appeared to have failed despite hectic back channel moves to broker peace between warring Mulayam and Akhilesh camps, even......

F-16 deal with Pak: "US will patch up with India"

On the sidelines of the California Democratic Convention 2016, US Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez told Rediff.com's Ritu Jha that the US will patch up with India over United States's decision to sell......

It's too late to patch up with BJP now: Yeddyurappa

A last-ditch attempt to retain former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party has failed. Ahead of an important meeting to be held on Tuesday to patch......

How to make money from mega IPOs

The mega IPOs (initial public offerings) are back on the horizon. The biggest sensations of the last few years have undoubtedly been the two 'IPs'. IPL and IPO. The Indian Premier League (IPL)......

Air India to cut employee cost by Rs 500 cr

Air India is working on plans to reduce its expenditure on employees by Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) per annum. A newly formed committee is re-examining wage and other agreements in......

Apple promises fix "very soon" for Macs with failed encryption

Apple Inc said on Saturday it would issue a software update "very soon" to cut off the ability of spies and hackers to grab email, financial information and other sensitive data from Mac computers.......

Andhra Pradesh tops divestment list

The Centre's divestment programme may have hit a rough patch owing to legal wrangles, but states like Andhra Pradesh and Orissa have performed impressively on the privatisation front. Several other......

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Goodbye, Master

'To surprise us every single time, come what may...' 'To show us a simple enough boxed-up character and then spring out in a way we could never anticipate...' 'And now he's dead. Before the devil......

Bigg Boss 14: Sara gets EVICTED!

It's a shocking Monday in the Bigg Boss house! Photograph: Kind courtesy Colors TV/Twitter The Bigg Boss episode sees the contestants return to their favourite reason to fight: The seven items......

What you DON'T KNOW about Nedumudi Venu

A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem......

Robin Williams is forever!

Sukanya Verma pays tribute to Robin Williams, who passed into the ages on August 11. Robin Williams is no more? How can Robin Williams be no more? As the ubiquitous funnyman of Hollywood,......

Washout Time For India Down Under

Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, beginning in Perth on November 22, Norma Astrid Godinho/Rediff.com takes a walk down memory lane, recounting India's sojourns Down Under from 1947 to......

When It Was Bradman Versus India

History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, beginning in......

England's depleted defence to be tested against Serbia

  IMAGE: England's Eberechi Eze during training at Blankenhain, Germany, on Thursday. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters England face the first test of their credentials as one of the Euro 2024......

Pulling out of IPL was best decision I took: Zampa

IMAGE: Australia's Adam Zampa has played down comparisons with Shane Warne but reckons he has improved over the years. Photograph: ICC/X Australia spinner Adam Zampa said that pulling out of IPL......

India need Iyer, Ashwin to step up in 2nd ODI vs Aus

The game on Friday had enough positives for India, mainly the performance of Mohammad Shami and Suryakumar Yadav, but few questions still need to be answered ahead of the World Cup, beginning......