3000 Indian-Americans to campaign for BJP for LS polls

The 'Overseas Friends of BJP' in the United States has made an elaborate plan to make more than 25 lakh calls to people across India urging them to vote and re-elect Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

Crack down on terror harbourers and overground workers, J-K DGP tells force

Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Thursday directed officers to take stringent action against harbourers and overground workers of terrorists to end terrorism in the......

AMU professor booked for lecture on 'rape' in myths, varsity suspends him

The police on Wednesday registered an FIR against an Aligarh Muslim University professor who referred to examples of 'rape' in Hindu mythology during a forensic science class, provoking accusations......

Covid: Over 60 envoys visit vaccine facilities in Hyderabad

Over 60 foreign envoys on Wednesday visited Hyderabad-based leading biotech companies Bharat Biotech and Biological E Limited where they were apprised of India's vaccine development programmes......

'You don't ask someone in ICU to start exercising from the next day'

'Today when people are fighting to get their salary, you are telling them you will privatise airports!' IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the first of her five press conferences to......

'Economic package is like an onion'

'You peel one layer, then another layer, then another, but in the end, you will see that there is no onion inside.''This package has been packaged well, but there is nothing much inside the......

Going around in circles with Nirmala Sitharaman

A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com attends the finance minister's presser in Chennai to tom-tom the government's achievements in its first 100 days in office. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at......

What will Modi 2 give India?

'What will this supposedly more business-friendly government do if it gets a second term?''Important labour law and land reforms remain off the table.' 'Witness the arm-twisting of foreign players......

Review: Sarbjit: A shrill, soppy melodrama

'Sarbjit is an irresponsibly sloppy film, a film so focused on artless emotional manipulation and trying to make the audience weep, that it trivialises an important true-life story,' says Raja Sen.......

Review: Jal is a bore

Jal takes its own time in unravelling and loses the plot pretty soon, says Paloma Sharma.Girish Malik's directorial debut surely has a good heart but it forgets that subtle difference between a......

25 Years on: Celebrating Aamir-Juhi's romance in QSQT

Mansoor Khan's directorial debut Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak released 25 years ago today, April 29, with then upcoming actors Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, starring in their first major......

Meet IPL's 'ultimate wicket-taking machine'

Shami uses his skills first and then looks for batter's weakness: RP Singh IMAGE: Mohammed Shami is the leading wicket taker in the IPL with 17 scalps from nine games. Photograph: BCCI Former......

Why you should watch The Test

'If there were ever a PR exercise to fix the seemingly irreparable image of Australian cricket in the aftermath of the most notorious on-field scandal in recent memory, then this is it,' observes......

It's time to move on, says Shastri

Former India Team Director Ravi Shastri made it clear on Tuesday that he is "done" with the Indian cricket team, saying it's time to "move on". Shastri recently lost out in the race to be India's......

Guru Greg and the God complex

Greg Chappell poses for a photograph with the street sign named after him at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Photograph: Chris Hyde/Getty Images You know him as the batsman......