'Senior Vatican officials were pleasantly surprised at the number of Indians who had come to witness the ceremony.' IMAGE: Pope Francis speaks with new Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad during a......
Tens of thousands of his dedicated followers would attend his 'satsang' in Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states, but on Wednesday controversial preacher Bhole Baba who equated himself to God in......
'Three of my grandparents had cancer. That was the reason I entered the protests and later led it.' IMAGE: Demonstrators gather near the Kudankulam nuclear power project during a protest,......
'When my father travelled 5,000 miles to build a new home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to become its leader.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com profiles Dr......
Rulers in New Delhi and their political aides in sensitive states like Tamil Nadu have to be doubly careful not to provoke a situation whose consequences may be much more than visible now to the......
What will the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government do to answer the queries and fears of investors who will want to be doubly sure they would not be harassed at a later date, as has been happening......
Advertising couched as editorial is working best on digital media across the world, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Almost every major news website in the world - BuzzFeed, Quartz or Hearst, for......
India's foremost architect and town planner was renowned as much for his 'breathing' spaces as for his irascible personality Obituaries can be hagiographic, at least in the immediate aftermath of......
For starters given a declining West, it is indeed unwise on our part to depend on it for any matter whatsoever for our growth, writes M R Venkatesh. The events of the past few years at the global......
At the Leo fete, Vijay had this to tell his fans: 'I know you all are in my heart. But today, I also know that I am also in the hearts of all of you...'A typical politician's line, did you say,......
'In Angamaly Diaries, dreams, kinks, small corruptions, cheap lives, and hopes are all given their due and that attitude frees us up to believe that perhaps there is more good than bad in the sum......
'They are perhaps the only night when the stars, those celestial seraphs, become as vulnerable, as doggedly human, as the rest of us,' says Vikram Johri. IMAGE: Priyanka Chopra with Liev Schreiber......
No other album has raised such high expectations or created quite this much frenzy among eager fans like Escape Artists' Motion Pictures' Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya (Will You Cross the Skies for Me?).......
Ho hum. It's time for the Christmas season, and even the Nativity scene seems passe and predictable. At least, so decides the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. According to a BBC report, the......
IMAGE: A woman hangs out on a balcony a sheet reading 'Bye Diego' to mourn the death of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, in Naples, Italy November 26, 2020. Photograph: Yara......
Determination allied with intelligence helped David Sheppard fashion a successful if intermittent career in the strong England side of the 1950s before rising to the office of bishop in the Church......