Volunteers dressed as clowns visit hospitals and old-age homes to spread cheer and dispel the gloom of ill health and old age. IMAGE: A clownselor entertains a child-patient at the cancer ward of......
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s surprise gesture to hug Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha after his speech during the no-confidence debate had Twitter abuzz on Friday with jokes......
The Shiv Sena's demand to remove the words 'secular' and 'socialist' from the Preamble of the Constitution on Thursday drew flak from Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and Mahatma Gandhi's......
Life inside the prime minister's official residence is highly regulated, but it comes with its perks, says Veenu SandhuThe prime minister's official residence for the last 30 years, 7 Race Course......
In the beginning was Salman Khan and the word was Dabangg. Ever since Sallu bhaiyya outdid every other star's box-office record with his brother's film, by playing the buffoon and dumbing down to......
Every defaulter is not a wilful defaulter who has the capability of paying back and is yet not servicing the bank loan, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
United Bank of India and Andhra Bank employees start organising silent protests outside houses and work places of defaulters. Bankers are resorting to 'Gandhigiri' – made famous by Rajkumar......
United Bank of India and Andhra Bank employees start organising silent protests outside houses and work places of defaulters. Bankers are resorting to 'Gandhigiri' – made famous by Rajkumar......
The Sunderbans boast the highest concentration of solar home panels in India thanks to the efforts of a former government scientific officer. Sustainable technology may be the next big thing for......
IMAGE: Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. For Mahatma Gandhi, cinema was a corrupting influence on young minds, a 'sinful technology'. It is that very medium which......
A day before the event, I learnt from an old Mumbai crime branch informant that a group of gangsters were planning to serve breakfast to the prisoners at Balgandharva Rangmandir prior to the show.......
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies. In this December-born special quiz, all you have to do is identify the movie from the options listed below. You have......
Five movies and almost Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) to his name already. That's the blockbuster run Rajkumar Hirani has been enjoying at the box office ever since he made his directorial debut......
'It's amazing how many different kinds of patriotic songs we have in our country.' IMAGE: Shantanu Moitra makes music with singer Papon. Photograph: Kind courtesy Shantanu Moitra/Instagram From......
Photograph: Sachin Tendulkar/Instagram Despite the extreme heat in London, Sachin Tendulkar seems to be enjoying the English summer. Tendulkar, who usually spends a couple of months in London......
Substitute Jermain Defoe struck twice after the break to spare the blushes of England's defenders and earn Fabio Capello's side a 2-2 draw in a friendly with the Netherlands on Wednesday. England......
While diver Tom Daley is already something of a celebrity, neither he nor his coach expected him to be world 10-metre platform champion at the age of 15. To his visible disbelief the pint-sized......