An FIR was filed on Tuesday against ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP S Gnanathiraviam and several others in connection with an assault on a pastor in Thirunelveli, the police said. IMAGE: DMK......
Few debut novels in recent times have been received with such critical applause as Akil Kumarasamy's Half Gods.'The prose itself is a marvel,' declared The New York Times Book Review.A glimpse of......
'All this for only one reason -- that I oppose the government's nuclear power policy.''They will not break my resolve.''I will stand by my principle, which is to point out that nuclear energy is......
The costs involved in putting together a successful rally are bizarre, report A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com and Saisuresh Sivaswamy/Rediff.com IMAGE: A large crowd awaits Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J......
'What is the point of having this money when my constituents don't?' A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com and Saisuresh Sivaswamy/Rediff.com hit the campaign trail with H Vasanthakumar, the Congress'......
Markets ended higher on Thursday led by auto shares on the back of robust October sales.The 30-share Sensex ended at 18,562 up 56 points or 0.30% and the 50-share Nifty ended at 5,645 up by 25......
After his well appreciated maiden Malayalam venture Aathmakatha, director Premlal's new film is Outsider. "Sreenivasan, who played the lead role in Aathmakatha, portrays therole of a poor boatman.......
Pavithra Srinivasan writes that Tamil film Osthe -- remade from Salman Khan's blockbuster Dabangg -- takes itself too serious and misses the plot.'What you have seen so far, is gusthi fight. From......
It takes a great deal of guts and enormous research to produce a realistic story -- and even then, the risks attached to making it watchable are truly many. In that respect, Ayngaran......
The successive works of a hit-maker are always eagerly looked forward to. Will he be able to re-create the magic, or will the film fall flat on its face? The expectations are doubled when the......
Sun Pictures' Padikkathavan (Illiterate) starring upcoming star-in-the-making Dhanush, directed by Suraaj can be called a masala entertainer that doesn't take itself too seriously -- except in......