Celebrating US elections in Mumbai

Americans and desis came together to watch the US election results live at Mumbai's Hard Rock Cafe. Rediff.com's Nadisha Daniel and Abhishek Mande were at the venue. Photographs and video: Rajesh......

The idea of justice in India is indeed vague

Actor Shah Rukh Khan gets held up at New Jersey Airport for two hours (one hour, six minutes if you were to believe US Immigration). The nation is seething in anger because a) he is a Muslim and it......

88 die in Egyptian resort blast

Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik early on Saturday, ripping through a hotel and a coffee shop packed with European and Egyptian tourists. The......

A maniac with a gun, a life lost in vain

Robbed of prey as people fled, Omar Perez came marching back and shot bullet after bullet into Prudhvi Raj Kandepi's head, thus ensuring that a man he had never met before, known nothing of, would......

Mumbai to groove to Hard Rock beats

One of the world's iconic restaurant chains, Hard Rock Cafe, is set to open its doors in India. The likely date for Hard Rock Cafe's India debut is the middle of next year. And the likely city......

20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in India soon

Internet service provider O-Zone Network and telecom equipment maker Alcatel Lucent have inked an agreement for jointly developing Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. As per the agreement, Alcatel......

Planet Hollywood to anchor off Mumbai's coastline

The high-profile denizens of Mumbai and other celebrities will soon have a new place to hang out. Planet Hollywood, the US-based theme restaurant, is planning its debut in India by setting up a......

Bombay Dyeing to develop two mill lands

The Bombay Dyeing board has approved developments on two of the company's mill lands in central Mumbai.The board, in a meeting held last week, approved developments on Spring Mills in Dadar and the......

Spotted! A Mermaid Called Riya

Nargis Fakhri holidays in Italy... Ananya gets into a bikini... Sunny promotes his movie... Photograph: Kind courtesy Riya Sen/Instagram Riya Sen takes a dip in the ocean off Kanawa island in......

PIX: Shruti Haasan, Hard Kaur at VH1 music awards

The show felicitated indie musicians like Dualist Inquiry's Sahej Bakshi and Nischay Parekh.The first edition of music channel VH1 and Seagram's 100 Pipers awards were held on May 12 at Hard Rock......

The Archies Review: Return To Innocence

The Archies is an evergreen thought passed on from generation to generation. But Sukanya Verma wishes it had some of the comic's tee-hee humour and hyuk hyuk too. Long before there was cable TV,......

PIX: Gul Panag, Rishi Kapoor indulge in GUITAR SMASHING

Several Bollywood celebrities turned up at the opening of Hard Rock Cafe's new restaurant in Andheri, a western Mumbai suburb, over the weekend. Actress Gul Panag seemed......

Miami In Love With Messi Already!

Lionel Messi has Miami in a spell! With the Argentine superstar set to make his Major League Soccer debut with Inter Miami next week, the city has been bitten by the Messi bug. Everything from a......

Federer sets the standard

U.S. Open champion Roger Federer breezed into New York's Hard Rock cafe on Monday clutching his latest piece of silverware.Maybe the venue was chosen in anticipation of an Andy Roddick victory, all......