Close on the heels of two Dalit children being burnt alive in Faridabad, a 21-year-old Dalit youth was allegedly burnt to death by a former village head and his family members herein Yamunanagar......
Trooper Rockey kept two heavily-armed militants, who attacked a security convoy in Udhampur, engaged and did not allow them to lob grenades on the bus full of BSF personnel. Border Security Force......
Making a difference in style of governance, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday revived the practice of meeting people to listen to their grievances at his official residence......
A Samajwadi Party Member of Legislative Assembly was booked on Monday for attempt to murder in Mahrajganj after a woman, whom he had allegedly set ablaze last week, died at a hospital. The FIR......
A young deliveryboy has married two sisters, one of them handicapped, in Lucknow with the blessings of his parents and those of the girls'.Amar Verma married Priti (21) and Ragini (18), daughters......
'We are targeting good quality current and salary accounts.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com State-owned Punjab & Sind Bank is targeting salary accounts to boost the share of low-cost......
From CCTV cameras to mobile jammers and perimeter protection equipment, the Indian electronic security market is worth over Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion). Last week, when Ram Swarup -- owner of a......
Can you imagine Ram Prasad Sharma and Laxman Prasad Sharma from Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1979 classic Golmaal entertaining you by enacting the entire film in 15 minutes? Perhaps not. But this is soon......
The growth in corporate tax collection in 2002-03 was the highest in Patna, Kanpur and Allahabad, even as Kolkata topped the list in terms of the number of direct tax assessees.With 2.3 million......
After scaring us with his last horror movie Phoonk, Ram Gopal Varma hopes to send more chills down our spine with Agyaat, a thriller set in a jungle. The film stars Priyanka Kothari and is set......
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is fast becoming a rage. After winning four Golden Globe awards recently, the Mumbai-based rags-to-riches story staring Irrfan Khan, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto has......
In its original version, Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A, did not create a stir in America. The reviews for the book, which this week jumped into the top 15 paperback bestsellers list in The New York......
Amitabh Bachchan turns 75 on October 11. Rediff.com celebrates the superstar with this special series, looking back at the very things that made him the BIG B. We first published this special in......
Slumdog Millionaire? I hate that film!" said a much decorated, liberal and well-travelled former submariner. "It is poverty porn at its worst. The Mumbai marauders are supposed to have done their......
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