Veteran Malayalam filmmaker and Dadasaheb Phalke award winner Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Infosys CEO Nadan Nilekani and Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande were among 42 personalities from various fields who......
The 2013 Padma Awards were announced on the eve of the 64th Republic DayHere’s the complete list of the winnersPadma Vibhushan Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Shri Raghunath......
'I would have liked if the film didn't so shamelessly exploit my patriotic sentiments to afford it respect in its final scene''I would have liked something much more than this mediocre account of a......
One of the most famous Indian faces on the planet, everything Priyanka Chopra Jonas learned, she learned it on the job. 'My acting school was on set. I learned everything that I did by being thrown......
Actress Deepika Padukone has revealed that she would have loved to do a film on ace boxer Mary Kom. Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is making a movie based on Mangte Chungneijang......
Mangle Chungneijang Mary Kom or simply Mary Kom, now stands in her own league. While the likes of Vijender Kumar and Akhil Kumar were hogging the limelight for their stupendous show at the 2008......
Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu, we know, likes to play badminton to keep fit, but boxing? On his visit to Imphal this week, Naidu, who is also the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, was......
Britain's Nicola Adams enteredthe women's flyweight boxing final at the London Olympics, beatingIndia's MC Mary Kom 11-6 on points in the semi-finals on Wednesday. The 29-year-old mother had to......
In our year-end special, Rediff.com looks at the men and women who wrote the India story this year. M C Mary Kom, the Manipuri Wonder Woman, has won the World Boxing Championship five times.......