Rediff.com presents the list of the most powerful women in the world, as per the latest Forbes rankings. Sonia Gandhi Congress party president Sonia Gandhi was on Wednesday ranked the sixth most......
The nine-day Navratri festival began across India with fervour on Saturday. Thousands of devotees queued up at temples of Goddess Durga. Navratri, which literally means nine nights, is observed......
Nearly 25 lakh people have fled the Swat Valley after the Pakistan army stepped up its offensive against Taliban militants in the country's troubled north-western parts. Many feel that a......
Barack Obama's inauguration festivities started off on Sunday morning with a star-studded concert and a motivational speech by the United States President-Elect at the Lincoln Memorial in......
As a kid, he dreamt of the impossible. When he saw Superman, he wanted to be like him and do whatever he did. At school, his teacher told him his ideas were good, but there is still a lot more to......
Many of us would have heard about the scam where a fake e-mail is sent to a user's e-mail account posing as a bank or credit card provider. The number of such e-mails is rising at a shocking rate:......
The world is slowly, but surely, coming out of the fiscal quagmire that it was wallowing in for a long time.... the recession is finally showing signs of retreating with economies across the......
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, while flagging off the new Singur-Howrah 'Andolan' suburban train on Sunday said that her ministry was ready to set a rail coach factory at Singur, if......
With a 13 per cent rise in quarterly profit, India's third-largest software services exporter, Wipro limited, said on Wednesday that it was adapting successfully to the global......
Singer Cheryl Cole has been named as the 'Most Photogenic Woman Of All Time'. The 26-year-old Girls Aloud star and face of L'Oreal beat the likes of legendary Hollywood beauties Audrey......
The 59th Grammy Awards were held at the Staples Center on Sunday, February 12, in Los Angeles, California. Highlights from the event. Grammy Awards: Sandeep Das wins, Anoushka Shankar loses......
A recently conducted poll has come up with 10 Hollywood actresses with the most coveted bikini bodies. Topping the list is Raquel Welch, followed by Kim Kardashian. 'Despite a 40-year age......
Curvy reality TV star Kim Kardashian has bagged the title of the World's Best Bum 2010. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star landed the top spot in an online poll, reports the Sun.......
She has won more than a dozen Grammy Awards, featured in Forbes' lists of the most powerful celebrities and influential musicians and has sold millions of albums and digital singles in the US......
India sent in their two most experienced batsmen to open the innings -- Rahul Dravid (336 ODIs) and Sachin Tendulkar (428 ODIs) -- with the obvious intent of giving them more overs to settle in and......
Clijsters's improbable charge into the US Open semi-finals has surprised the Belgian as much as anyone. Clijsters, who returned to the tour several weeks ago after two years on the sidelines,......
England last pair Jimmy Anderson and Monty Panesar proved their country's unlikely batting heroes when the hosts defied the rules of probability by drawing the first Ashes Test against Australia on......
Will the real Mahendra Singh Dhoni please stand up? Not long ago the Indian captain was a bowler's nightmare. It would take him just a few overs to change the course of a match, be it......
New Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is well-trained in dealing with the whims of multi-millionaire footballers and club owners despite often coming across as shy and reserved. The 49-year-old......