Deoghar Disaster: IAF's Mission Impossible

'Imagine hanging from a thin steel cable under a helicopter with certain death staring at you below, being pulled up slowly in the din and downwash of the helicopter.'IAF Veteran Air Commodore......

What I would like to see in sports in 2012

As 2012 takes its first steps there's much to hope for, says Ivan Crasto. This time it's more than just two wishes, though there's just one from cricket. At the start of the year gone by I had......

Rediff.com wins sports journalism award

Ivan Crasto, Sports Editor, rediff.com, on Saturday won the inaugural Indian Sports Journalism Awards for the Best of the Web category.The awards are instituted by the Sports Journalists'......

Revolution is a French sport

France native Claude Arpi, who has lived in India for 36 years, captures the fan's passion for football in an ongoing e-mail exchange with Ivan Crasto, Rediff.com's Sports Editor. Read Claude's......

Of French blues and Messi magic

In this World Cup series, France native Claude Arpi, who has lived in India for 36 years, captures the fan's passion for football in an ongoing e-mail exchange with Ivan Crasto, Rediff.com's Sports......

The Spanish can't unlock Swiss vaults

Throughout the World Cup, Rediff.com will bring you superb features that capture the heat and dust of the Great Game. In this series, France native Claude Arpi, who has lived in India for 36......