Six Bharatiya Janata Party leaders including a sitting MLA and four former legislators have filed nominations as independents after being denied tickets by the party for the next month's Gujarat......
How Dinesh Desai, an Indian American from California, changed the life of Denis Ryen, a Tamilian living in Cherrapunjee, Meghalaya, half a world away. Denis P Ryen opened the letter postmarked USA.......
Doctors who decided to verify a septuagenarian's claim of not having eaten food since the age of ten have been unable to dispute him.Prahlad Jani, a 76-year-old sadhu from the pilgrim town of......
IMAGE: Ram Jethmalani at Parliament house. Photograph: Vijay Verma/PTI Photo Former Union minister and eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani was a mentor to juniors and someone who fought for......
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose was on Tuesday appointed as the country's first Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman, according to an official communique. Justices Dilip B......
Independent directors of Raymond Ltd on Friday said they are monitoring the situation arising out of the matrimonial dispute of company's chairman and managing director Gautam Singhania to ensure......
The takeover of Cadbury India by US-based Kraft Foods is different from Vodafone's buyout of Hutchison Essar in 2007, said Indian tax experts."Kraft's acquisition of Cadbury is a global......
E-commerce is booming in India. With the market expected to touch the Rs 2,300-crore (Rs 23 billion) mark next year, business on the Net is bound to happen. However, there are many issues to......
The task set out for Ravinder Nath Joshi was not an easy one. As finance head of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, he had to shell out Rs 17 lakh (Rs 1.7 million) for every metre that the rail......
The Bachchan family have this knack of going out of their way to make you feel extremely comfortable. IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan with Jaya Bachchan and granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda. Photograph:......
Mithun Chakraborty started from scratch in bit roles and had no Godfather backing him. Yet, remarkably, his career now straddles six decades and he continues to win acclaim, observes Dinesh Raheja.......
Ishaan P Zore doesn't think Vicky Kaushal's persona quite matches Chhatrapati Sambhaji's iconic figure. Chhatrapati Sambhaji, the son of the great Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji,......
Taapsee, Vikrant, Sunny are a fine fit on their own as well as around each other and prove themselves to be well equipped to survive the air of double dealing. What's missing is sizzle, observes......
Brinda examines some alarming aspects of religious fanaticism through the narrative engine of a well-oiled serial killer mystery, observes Arjun Menon. Brinda, the first Web series to feature......
IMAGE: Manipur thrashed Uttarakhand 5-2 in their pool match at the hockey event at the National Games in Dehradun on Saturday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Hocke India/X Manipur and Madhya......
IMAGE: With the playoffs race heating up, both Delhi and Mumbai will be eager to add two points to their kitty. Photographs: BCCI An upbeat Delhi Capitals will look to keep the winning momentum......
IMAGE: Featuring in the retained player’s list, Mahendra Singh Dhoni will captain the Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2024. Photograph: BCCI The curtains dropped on the IPL trade window on......
IMAGE: Ruturaj Gaikwad celebrates his century. Photograph: BCCI Domestic/Twitter Double centurion Ruturaj Gaikwad blazed his way into the record books, smashing seven sixes in a 43-run over......
Indian athletes are on a roll at the ongoing Birmingham Commonwealth Games. With 55 medals thus far, India are 5th on the list of medal winners. Rediff.com introduces you to the......