The BJP's star campaigner could not help even half the number of candidates for whom he campaigned in his aggressive 'Didi-o-Didi' style in Bengal, reveals Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf. IMAGE:......
Describing listening, arguing and dissent as essence of democracy, former president Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said he believes that the present wave of largely peaceful protests that have......
Striking junior doctors turned down Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's invitation for a meeting at the state secretariat, which was called to resolve the impasse, and continued their protest for the......
'If democracy has succeeded, it is largely due to perfect conduct of elections by election commissioners starting from Sukumar Sen to the present election commissioners' At a time when the......
'A robust electoral democracy provides an institutional basis for the generation and regeneration of political hope.' IMAGE: Indians queue up to vote in a 1969 election. Photograph: Keystone/Getty......
At a glittering gathering at the annual Business Standard Awards function in Mumbai on Tuesday, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata accepted Business Standard's CEO of the Year award."All I have......
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. 'I don't need......
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......
'Hrishi-da often voiced his disenchantment with Bachchan's Angry Young Man persona -- the 'maara-maari', the growth of sidelocks; he even said directors were killing Amitabh the actor and turning......
Amitabh Bachchan's career is a stellar one, spanning four super-successful decades. Patcy N revisits some of the star's most memorable cinematic looks. Anand (1970) In this Hrishikesh Mukherjee......
Indian football team arrived in Lahore on Friday evening on an eight-day tour of Pakistan and immediately announced that it was in the city to make friends and win hearts of the people of......
Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly's ordeal following an abscess in his left thigh seemed to be over with doctors on Sunday declaring he was available for the November 12 triseries match against......
Indianskipper Sourav Ganguly was discharged from a private nursing, on Sunday, where he was admitted for treatment of an abscess on his left thigh, but his return to cricketing action has been......
Indian captain Sourav Ganguly's condition continued to improve as doctors carried out a secondary suture (stitching) on Friday to close the wound caused by the abscess on his left thigh. The......
India skipper Sourav Ganguly is virtually ruled out of the first one-dayer of the upcoming tri-series on October 23 and also doubtful for the second on October 26."There is marginal improvement in......