New York Labor Day Parade Was A Spectacle!

Thousands of workers of every description -- from journalists to steel workers, from painters to New York cops, from auto to engineering workers -- marched for four hours down 5th Avenue one of......

'India Has Changed So Much'

'I don't feel like going back to India, to the old Delhi that I grew up in. Because the place doesn't exist anymore.' Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Still a foreigner in her......

Delhi fire: Parents of newborns say they weren't informed

As firefighters toiled to douse a massive fire at a private neonatal hospital in New Delhi on Saturday night, many parents whose newborns were admitted to the facility had no clue what was......

What's Salma Hayek Doing With Xi Jinping?

China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan are on a trip through Europe, his first in five years. First stop was Paris, following which China's first couple will, with French President......

Avoid paint stocks over the short-to-medium term

A likely turnaround in profitability margins in the March quarter (Q4FY23) will not be enough to lift the outlook for paint stocks due to volatile crude oil prices and rising competition in the......

Want to design camouflage for cars? Skoda's looking for you

Fancy your chops as a designer? Skoda Auto India has a challenge for you. Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com brings us the lowdown. Skoda Auto has launched a unique design contest for all budding designers......

'While Others Experimented With Drugs, I Was In Love'

'When you are in love, you are preoccupied just with that.''Nothing else registers. It's like being drugged.' IMAGE: Rekha in Sheshnaag. The youthful Rekha turned 70 on Thursday, October 10. The......

'Rekha Was Made For Poetry'

'A Rekha Ganesan is not born everyday.' IMAGE: Rekha in Umrao Jaan. There are two sides to Rekha's sex appeal: The post-Sawan Bhadon sensuality of oomph and the post-Umrao Jaan seductiveness of......

Indian 2 Review: Kamal Haasan Elevates Overwritten Sequel

The saving grace of Shankar's expanded universe is the masterful precision with which Kamal Haasan drops himself into a messy setup, only slightly to elevate the pulpy tendencies of Shankar's......

The Problem With Ullozhukku

People turn a corner and overhear secrets, men change stripes so as to acquire shades of villainy most convenient to advancing the plot, secondary characters confess to past sins just so that the......

Meet Kuldeep Yadav, The Painter

Photograph: Kind courtesy Kuldeep Yadav/Instagram   Ahead of the first Test against England in Hyderabad, spinner Kuldeep Yadav unveiled his artistic skill off the cricket pitch. Kuldeep......

SEE: Tendulkar meets Tendulkar at Wankhede!

IMAGE: The life-size statue of Sachin Tendulkar was unveiled at the Wankhede stadium on Wednesday. Photographs: ICC/X It was a 'special moment' for batting great Sachin Tendulkar as his statue was......

Tendulkar Statue Set To Adorn Wankhede

IMAGE: Sculptor Pramod Kamble at work on the Tendulkar statue. Photograph and Video: ANI/X   The Mumbai Cricket Association will pay tribute to Sachin Tendulkar by installing a statue of the......

Check out the T20 World Cup anthem

IMAGE: The T20 World Cup campaign film features 'avatars' of India captain Virat Kohli, West Indies skipper Kieron Pollard, Afghanistan's Rashid Khan and Australian Glenn Maxwell. Photograph and......

The feeling of winning a medal at the Paralympics is sinking in: Harvinder

IMAGE: Harvinder Singh had won a bronze medal at the archery tournament at Paralympics in Tokyo. Photograph: Alex Davidson/Getty Images for International Paralympic Committee India's first......