Modi's Bengal strike rate: Less than 50%

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:......

IRCTC scam: Delhi court grants bail to Lalu, wife and son

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav were on Monday granted bail by a Delhi court in a money laundering case related to the Indian Railway Catering and......

Lalu gets interim bail in IRCTC scam

A Delhi court Thursday granted interim bail till January 19 to Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad in two Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation scam cases filed by the Central......

IRCTC scam case: Lalu, wife, son and others summoned as accused

A Delhi court on Monday summoned Rashtriya Janata Sal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav and others as accused in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism......

Former India footballer Veeru Babu dead

IMAGE: Image used for representational purposes. Photograph: PTI/Files Former international footballer V Veeru Babu died at a hospital in Visakhapatnam, where he was undergoing treatment, on......

Saha hits 6 sixes in an over enroute to 20-ball century in club game!

'I could feel from the first ball that I was able to hit the ball in the middle and I went for it.' FILE IMAGE: Wriddhiman Saha in action for Kings XI Punjab during IPL-10. Photograph: BCCI......

Former Eden Gardens curator Prabir Mukherjee passes away

Prabir Mukherjee, a former chief curator of the Cricket Association of Bengal, passed away at a Kolkata hospital late Tuesday night after a prolonged illness. Known for his no-nonsense steadfast......

'Leslie Claudius was clearly a man of method'

From our archives: Rohit Brijnath ona country boy named Leslie Claudius,who bent his back every evening till he eventually ruled the world. If he walked down the road, his spectacles balanced on......

Football great Shew Mewalal dead

Two-time Olympian Shew Mewalal who guided India to 1951 Asian Games title with his solitary goal, died at the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata late on Friday night following illness. He was 82 and is......