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'Jewellery worth Rs 24-25 crores was transferred'

Indrani was spiritedly telegraphing details of the jewellery from the back of the court... Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora Murder Trial. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Why Rhea's case should send shivers down our spines

A promising young actor suffering from depression has had his life laid bare for the grubby public to paw through.An ordinary family has been pitched into the middle of a nightmare of an......

The man who warned Mamata about Saradha

Why did the West Bengal government ignore warnings about the Saradha group, long before the chit-fund scam surfaced?Indrani Roy/Rediff.com reports on how retired police officer Nazrul Islam blew......

'Election in Bengal is marred with violence; It is a shame'

Rediff.com’s Indrani Roy tracks the developments in West Bengal where 17 Lok Sabha seats are polling in the last phase. News of sporadic violence is pouring in from various corners of West......

'I had no right to teach students who I deserted'

'It's the least I could do,' says Professor Soumitra Basu, head of the Philosophy department at Jadavpur University, who resigned to protest against the police violence last week. Professor......

'Novartis ruling won't affect pharma industry'

Novartis's famed cancer drug, Glivec, will not get patent protection in India. The apex body on patent and trademark disputes, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board, has recently ruled that the......

Now, a book on capital markets in Braille!

The specially challenged people who gathered at Kolkata's Rotary Sadan on Monday could not have asked for a better gift than this on the Inetrnational Day of Persons with Disabilities.On this day,......

He left a Rs 90K-job to work with farmers in a Bengal village

Indrani Roy/Rediff.com meets Abhishek Singhania who left a bright career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mumbai, to work in a food security project at Khentia village in Bengal, as a research......

'Our rich politicans don't really care for the poor'

India's economy is facing a difficult challenge at the moment. The gross domestic product growth rate is going downhill, industrial production too isn't posting impressive figures and Reserve Bank......

How IIT Kharagpur researchers are leading a 'green revolution'

Indrani Roy/Rediff.com traces how researchers at IIT-Kharagpur have managed to turn barren land of surrounding villages to multi-crop farmland Image: Dr P B S Bhadoria of IIT-Kharagpur speaks to......

'I don't act in front of the camera; I make love to it'

Kolkata native Mishty, who makes her acting debut with Subhash Ghai's Kaanchi soon, talks about her Bollywood journey so far.After launching the careers of Meenakshi Sheshadri, Jackie Shroff,......

'I proved to myself and the world that I am sexy'

'In my personal life, I honestly find it very difficult to express my anger.''When you are a public figure, you feel watched that much more and then you are all the more careful.''Begum Jaan was......

Soumitra Chatterjee: I don't have much faith in awards

'No other actor in India was as lucky as me,' Soumitra Chatterjee tells Indrani Roy/ Rediff.com The brilliant actor Soumitra Chatterjee turns 80 today, January 19. On this occasion, we......

Meet the filmmaker who can take on Ray

At last the Bengal film industry may see the rise of a director, who can take on the legendary Satyajit Ray.The person in question is none other Sandip Ray, Ray's only child and a filmmaker in his......

Ray's son ready for Feluda again

Will filmmaker Sandip Ray's Feluda, the brilliant sleuth -- Sherlock Holmes of Bengal that his father Satyajit Ray created-- be listening to Chinese songs in Hong Kong? Foxed? Don't be. The movie......

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