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The Complete Hotelier And Host Extraordinaire

Shreekant Sambrani remembers P R S 'Biki' Oberoi, personal friend and hospitality icon, who passed into the ages this week. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com P R S (Biki to friends)......

Paytm employee tests positive, India's coronavirus count rises to 29

A Paytm employee in Gurgaon has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, advising its employees to work from home for the next couple of days. With......

Sheena Bora Trial: Enter the Actor

Balbinder Singh Dhami, who has played an inspector, for over a year, in The Zee Horror Show, took on the role of a witness on Monday. It was a part he had no experience of.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel......

Sheena Bora Trial: What Mekhail Bora Said

Throughout, Mekhail spoke calmly, with hardly an inflection making even the barest attempt to hijack his tone. His tone was so empty it made his narrative all the more touching.And ugly and grey,......

Secret tunnels to women's hostel, illegal explosive factory found inside Dera HQ

The Dera’s sprawling headquarters include an ostentatious '7-star MSG resort' with replicas of Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Kremlin and Disney World inside. IMAGE: Police with......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

Of Nano, jingoism and the right question

For long, I found it difficult to admire former finance minister P Chidambaram because everything he said seemed to kill individuality and nudge the country towards worshipping money. In fact, it......

Yang Yuanqing: China's first global capitalist

On a bright September afternoon, a black Mercedes S320 pulls up to a curb in the middle of Beijing's bustling Zhongguancun, the consumer-electronics shopping district. Out steps a man in a......

Driving the Rs 5.5-crore Maybach!

At Motoring, there is always an air of expectation that builds up every time a new car has to be driven or tested -- whether it be the new Maini G-Wiz (aka Reva) or a priceless Jaguar XK150. It is......

'Ranbir Is Utterly Butterly Delicious'

'All through the making of Dil Daulat Aur Duniya, Rajesh Khanna never acknowledged me.''Dev Anand couldn't carry off a dhoti in Insaaniyat. He told me that he would never wear one again.''Shammi......

'I Have Done Films For Free'

'Till my wife called me up one day and said, "Hey, we need food on the table".'Rediff.com's Rajesh Karkera and Mayur Sanap bring back interesting moments from the Thangalaan launch in Mumbai.......

Anil Kapoor's One Big Regret In Life

IMAGE: Aditya Roy Kapur, Sobhita Dhuliapala and Anil Kapoor. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Looks like the downpour that Mumbai witnessed on Wednesday morning was an active measure to......

Kangana Ranaut: Controversy's Child

Kangana Ranaut, the fiery movie star, continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons, notes Sukanya Verma. IMAGE: Kangana Ranaut at the launch of her film, Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi.......

Hyderabad masala

An upcoming film on Mohammad Azharuddin promises to be a potboiler, though not a true biopic, says Shakya Mitra. In December 1984, Kapil Dev was dropped for the Kolkata Test against England because......

Why Harmanpreet should bat down the order

IMAGE: Harmanpreet Kaur scored just 15 off 14 balls in the World Cup opener on Friday. Photograph: ICC/X Leg-spinner Poonam Yadav reckons that skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's is more suitable for the......

WOW Moments From Paris Olympics!

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......

World champions India eye winning start in Sri Lanka

IMAGE: Suryakumar Yadav-led India start as the big favourites against Sri Lanka in the three-match T20I series starting in Pallekele on Saturday. Photograph: BCCI India's newly-forged......

India favoured but England can upset: Collingwood

IMAGE: English opener Phil Salt is the No. 2 T20I batter in the world with skipper Jos Buttler. Photograph: ICC/X England will have to come up with an extraordinary performance to beat an an......

Why Australia flopped in the T20 World Cup...

‘I thought they weren't prepared. This is a worry with Mitchell Starc. If the ball is not swinging, he doesn't change his length quickly enough.’ IMAGE: Mitchell Starc's 'inability to......

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