It is not much of an issue just now, but it could become one if the idea of a caste census captures the socio-political imagination, going beyond electoral tags and identities, predicts N Sathiya......
Satish Bodas/Rediff.com captures glimpses from some of Mumbai's well-known Ganesh Mandals. IMAGE: The Khetwadi 11th Galli Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal, founded in 1962, has a towering 45......
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has expressed hope that the Centre will take an appropriate decision to ban cow slaughter and declare it as a 'protected national animal'.......
Shailajanand Mishra lists The Top Videos of the Week! Take a look. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi plays the drum during an interaction with the Indian community in Glasgow. Photograph: ANI......
The Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra has purchased a 7,285 square feet land adjacent to the Ram Janmabhoomi premises in Ayodhya, in accordance with its plan to expand the temple complex area to 107......
Attacking the United Progressive Alliance government, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday said 4.9 per cent economic growth is not because of......
The Board of Directors of Tata Sons at its meeting on Wednesday appointed Cyrus P Mistry as deputy chairman. Mistry will work with Ratan Tata over the next year and take over from him when he......
Britain and India have agreed to set up a joint tourism development forum to give a fillip to tourism in the two countries through a combined effort of the travel industry of both sides.India's......
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's Budget presentation on Monday was in sharp contrast to his colleague Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's disorderly and oft-disrupted performance, with the Lok......
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has committed to introducing a National Food Security Act in the current fiscal year, even while acknowledging the poor 'supply side response' of the......
Every now and then Bollywood finds itself in need of divine intervention. In the upcoming OMG 2, Akshay Kumar plays Lord Shiva -- correction: A messenger of Lord Shiva (as directed by the Central......
Move aside Adipurush. There's a grand new epic being played out. Colors TV's new show Shiv Shakti: Tap Tyag Tandav tells the story of love between Lord Shiva and Parvati/Shakti. Celebrated set......
The love story of Shakuntala and Dushyant is so familiar, from textbooks, comics, stage and screen versions, that it has become part of our cultural DNA.If a film-maker thinks he can make it his......
Suspense, supernatural, sci-fi, style, slice-of-life, what will your pick be from OTT this week? Sukanya Verma gives us some choices. Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryWhere to watch?......
Lord's to host its first-ever women's Test between India and England Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI Women/X Lord's, the 'home of cricket', will host its first-ever Women's Test between India and......
Image: Ultra marathoner Arun Bhardwaj. Photograph: Facebook 'After 8 to 10 hours of running, when my body starts paining, I keep thinking about the pain and sacrifice of my mother and it makes my......