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Chinese 'attackers' hack Indian embassy's website

The website of the Indian embassy in Moscow has been attacked twice by Chinese hackers, prompting the mission to boost its cyber security. Reliable sources in the Indian embassy said at least two......

Tamil Nadu's Is Saivism Hinduism Debate

Stalin's personal intervention in the Adheenam row may have contained the avoidable political damage and social tensions at least for now, observes N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Tamil Nadu Chief......

My statues represent 'will of the people': Mayawati

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that construction of her life-size statues and the party's symbol, elephant, at various places in Uttar Pradesh during her......

Have you met a Bluffocrat?

'If the school of bluffers includes those who get to the top not from deep knowledge but from delivering 'a clever quip or a leftfield surprise argument', then Modi is the undisputed Bluffocrat......

WTF News: It's Weird, True and Funny

This week’s digest of stories that are weird, true and funny. 1) Underwear models brighten up London Underground A group of underwear models transformed a London......

Over half of Yahoo! users on mobile, says Merissa Mayer

More than half of the total 800 million monthly users of Yahoo! access it on their mobile phones, CEO Marissa Mayer said. Mayer, while unveiling a suite of services covering digital advertising,......

Look who is challenging HT, TOI in Delhi

The India Today group is going to launch a morning daily general newspaper. The proposed newspaper is expected to be launched in Delhi. With this move, the Aroon Purie-promoted media giant will......

Playboy, other mags head for India

Playboy is coming to India -- only, of course, it won't be Playboy. That's because India might be liberalising, but it still remains puritan (okay, we'll ignore the music remixes on television for......

The most successful style of investing

'The secret has been out for 50 years, ever since Ben Graham and Dave Dodd wrote Security Analysis, yet I have seen no trend toward value investing in the 35 years that I've practiced it.' --......

Nifty below 8,150; Maruti Suzuki slips nearly 3%

Key benchmark indices extended decline to hit fresh intraday low in mid-morning trade. At 2:50 PM, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 214 points at 26,512. The Nifty 50 index......

Will Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan Be A Blockbuster?

A great story-teller, Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Vikram as Aditya Karikalan in Ponniyin Selvan. Now that Mani......

The Thilakan Interview: Malayalam superstars are insecure

One of India's greatest actors Thilakan passed away into the ages on September 24. He was 77. We reproduce here, an in-depth Rediff interview with the legend, published in January 2008. Don't miss......

'The Malayalam superstars are highly insecure'

When the winds blow wild snuffing out the flames, it is the Master Carpenter who takes up the challenge. Some quick calculations later, he raises a stone slab, and the lamp burns steady. That was......

Stung Australian media pick holes in India's win

Struggling to digest the defeat India rammed down the hosts' throat in the third Test, a section of the Australian media on Sunday reacted with dented pride and hurt ego as it sought to pick holes......

Former Brazil captain Socrates dies at 57

Former Brazil World Cup captain Socrates died in hospital Sunday At the age of 57, Brazilian media reported citing hospital sources. Socrates had been in the Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital in Sao......

India will win Test series 1-0: Borde

Chandrakant Gulabrao 'Chandu' Borde is a legend to many who grew up in the 1960s. A quality all-rounderhescored 3,061 runs in55 Tests, leading the side just once (he captained India in place of the......

'Unfair to Sachin'

Readers' responses toThe naked and the dead - Part 2: It was a very good article but I fail to understand why you missed bad umpiring I am sure the bad decisions played a very crucial role in the......

'Tendulkar has lost his fighting abilities'

Readers' responses toThe naked and the dead feature: It is SPOT ON.I feel we r saying this day only because of our seniors (namely Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman).Please make no......

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