This is the full text of the address to the nation by President Droupadi Murmu on the eve of India’s 78th Independence Day. My Dear Fellow Citizens, I extend to you all my heartiest......
Thousands of women from all walks of life hit the streets across West Bengal at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, protesting the horrific rape-murder of a doctor on duty at a Kolkata hospital......
Where do Vijay and his TVK expect to get their votes from?Vijay has a huge fan following among women, but will they automatically become his voters like they had done for MGR's AIADMK, asks N......
The annual Perseid meteor shower occurs when the earth passes through the cosmic debris from the trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle in 1992. It gets more magical when it aligns with the enchanting Aurora......
The deadly landslides in Kerala's ecologically fragile Wayanad district were triggered by a heavy burst of rainfall, made 10 per cent heavier by climate change, according to a new rapid attribution......
Wholesale inflation fell to a 3-month low of 2.04 per cent in July on decline in prices of food items especially vegetables, government data released on Wednesday showed. Photograph: Shailesh......
India Inc has reported a muted start to the financial year 2024-25, with a decline in net earnings and a modest single-digit uptick in revenues. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com An analysis of......
Public sector banks (PSBs) posted 16.1 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth in net profit at Rs 39,974 crore during the June 2024 quarter. Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters While net interest income......
'Primary buyers are commercial taxi and fleet operators and small businessmen.''CNG prices have been remarkably stable unlike petrol.' IMAGE: A CNG vehicle being refilled at a CNG pump in New......
India's industrial production slowed to a five-month low of 4.2 per cent in June 2024, mainly due to poor performance of the manufacturing sector, though power and mining sectors continue to......
'I want to be in Korea doing a love story, full of romance.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Lakshmi Manchu/Instagram Lakshmi Manchu is a name that resonates with versatility and grace across various......
Six episodes are not enough, applauds Deepa Gahlot. Sherlock Holmes is reportedly the most portrayed fictional character in films and television, and the appeal of the eccentric......
Think ghosts. Think grim, grotesque imagery. Bollywood's surplus of petrifying bhootnis and chudails still haunting our nightmares are a case in point. On the other end of the spooky spectrum,......
'Jitendra Pratap Singh (his character in Vedaa) believes in the divisive politics of society and that is more dangerous than the regular goons.' IMAGE: Abhishek Banerjee will be next seen in Stree......
Photograph: Kind courtesy Ananya Panday/Instagram Ananya Panday admits she was drawn to play the protagonist in her new Web series Call Me Bae for its Kareena connection. "I've grown up loving......
IMAGE: Umpire Aleem Dar. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images from the Rediff Archives Pakistan's most capped umpire, Aleem Dar has shared that the saddest moment of his life, the death of......
IMAGE: India's doubles specialist Ashwini Ponnappa has taken part in three Olympic Games. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters Veteran badminton player Ashwini Ponnappa slammed media......
IMAGE: Indian men's hockey team celebrate after their bronze medal triumph at the Paris Olympics. Photograph: ANI Photo After winning successive bronze medals at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics,......
IMAGE: Members of LA28, local government officials and US Olympic athletes pose with the official Olympic flag as it returns to Los Angeles for the first time in 40 years, in Los Angeles,......
The Paris Olympics had it all -- glamour (cuing for Snoop Dogg here), humour (the inventive Internet producing memes after memes) and some controversy too -- Vinesh Phogat's disqualification and......