'In the last six years, there have been 29,140 fire incidents in Mumbai in which 300 people have died and 925 people have been injured.''So, at least 10 to 12 fire accidents take place in Mumbai......
'My vision for India is a clean and corruption-free country. The youth need to be actively involved in politics and policy making. It is easy to complain, but tough to make a positive difference,'......
'Are you so scared for your own skin that you will not help a lady or a weak man from attack?' asks an anguished A Ganesh Nadar.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. In broad daylight, inside......
He came to Mumbai to fulfil his desire for wine, sex and gambling. The indulgence proved costly, literally, and Prabhat Mahadev Naik, alias Engineer (38), was forced to rob train passengers......
'If Modiji likes his pakodas fresh from the pakodewala, why does his government keep making things difficult for us?'Jyoti Punwani reports.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com With the PM......
When its founder Raghunandan Kamath took a calculated risk, his Bollywood customers backed him all the way, Rohith Potti and Pooja Bhula says in this excerpt from Intelligent Fanatics Of......
Guess which CEO loves to gorge on to Pav Bhaaji or which is the top guy of India Inc who loves horse-riding? Image: RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani with wife Nita and kids holidaying in South......
It's a food revolution that's been a long time coming. As double-income nuclear families become the norm in urban India, everyone who is anyone in the food business has been eyeing the ready-to-eat......
Hotels have mystery guests who check in to time room service, look for dust beneath mattresses and set off crises to see how the management deals with them. Restaurants have mystery diners to find......
Gauri wasn't very happy about living the Bombay life.With no friends in the city, she wanted her husband's films to flop so they could go back home, to Delhi.A unique slice of Shah Rukh Khan's......
'If it weren't for Om Puri, a whole range of our big city experiences wouldn't have found their honest representations on the screen,' notes Sreehari Nair on the legendary actor's birthday. IMAGE:......
Pinki Sonkar, the star of Megan Mylan's Oscar-winning documentary Smile Pinki, stopped by the rediff.com office in Mumbai and did just that -- light up the place with her luminescent smile.......
Hubby Hiten Tejwani is a worried man these days. His lady love Gauri Pradhan has lost two kilos in just a week. And for the tall and shapely lady, this was not really required. So was this a......
How bad can a movie get? Read on and you will figure out.Bad guy no 1 has his face toasted on a pav bhaji tava [pan]. He roars and throws a stove at the hero. With his back on fire, the hero walks......