For two-and-half weeks, as Kanhaiya Kumar's Jan Gan Man Yatra opposing the CAA-NPR-NRC makes its way through Bihar, it has come under sustained violent attack.Archana Masih/Rediff.com discovers......
This election has some striking resemblances to the landmark one of 1977, with sub-caste combinations and antipathies still the bedrock of measures Most of the Yadavs, around 15 per cent of the......
A rescue worker steps outside where victims' shoes are scattered after an explosion in a Shiite mosque in Shikarpur, located in Pakistan's Sindh province. Photograph: Amir Hussain/ Reuters At......
It is possible that the December clashes in Assam merely exploited an issue simmering for decades. The motivation, however, was something else, says Aditi PhadnisPresumably in the interests of......
A Mumbai-based business family has donated a gold platter weighing about 30 kg and worth around Rs 11 crore to the historical Somnath temple of Gujarat. The platter, donated by businessman Dilip......
Mumbai is witnessing some big-ticket investments in bungalows by the city's billionaires. Even as the real estate sector is facing a slowdown, Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla......
Real estate developers Oberoi Realty and Kalpataru have emerged front runners in a race to acquire Tata Steel’s 25-acre plot in Mumbai. The land, in the northern suburb of Borivali, is......
Dilipkumar Lakhi, a prominent diamond merchant and Mumbai's highest individual tax payer till a couple of years ago, has beaten some of the city's top developers to emerge the highest bidder for......
Reliance Industries' orchard in Jamnagar, with 1,03,000 mango trees planted six years back, has started producing 37 varieties of the King of Fruit.The company also plans to sell guava,......
'I got to know things early in life.' On Childrens' Day, one of Hindi film industry's most memorable child actors -- Raju Shrestha -- lets us into his life with a twinkle in his eye. One of the......
Dinesh RahejaShe may have never heard of feminism, but there is something very appealing and affirmative about the female protagonist of Gulzar's Khushboo. A product of her times, this rural woman......