Electoral setbacks and thwarted ambition can have an unpredictable effect on leaders, observes Aditi Phadnis. IMAGE: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath offers prayers at the Gorakhnath......
Hemant V Shivsaran/Rediff.com does a deep dive and lists the winners with the highest and lowest margins in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. IMAGE: All India United Democratic Front candidate from......
Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, megastar Konidela Chiranjeevi, famous actor of yesteryears Vyjayantimala Bali are among personalities who have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan in the......
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......
The Yogi Adityanath Cabinet 2.0 made space for fresh faces by dropping as many as 24 ministers from the first term of the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh. IMAGE: Prime Minister......
What do we need more of? Leaders who dominate global institutions or local leaders with a 'Make-in-India' mindset? Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A couple of weeks ago, the news about......
The board will now be headed by Vinod Kumar Yadav as chairman and CEO, and it will have four other members. The Railway Board got its first CEO after the government approved its restructuring and......
Hindustan Lever Ltd, India's best known multinational, will soon be moving to a new corporate identity.According to a news story in the latest issue of Businessworld, on the anvil is a new name as......
The participants shared their views and suggestions regarding Big Data, incentives for encouraging setting up of data centres, fiscal incentives for data localisation, incentives for pushing......
The proposed buy-back of shares, and consequent increase in the foreign equity stake of Unilever in the newly re-named Hindustan Unilever Ltd, is in keeping with the trend whereby multinational......
Nushrratt is a patakha... Alaya shows off her vintage vibe... Raveena reads a script but someone is watching... Photograph: Kind courtesy Jacqueline Fernandez/Instagram Jacqueline Fernandez has......
The Bollywood Hungama OTT India Fest and India Entertainment Awards saw many winners, and the stars celebrate their wins on social media. Among the winners in the Original Films section were Best......
'Salman wanted to do the interview properly. That's why he was nervous, you know, that dad should be happy.' IMAGE: Salman Khan with his father Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar at the launch of Angry......
Film folk celebrate Mother's Day with white parties and heartfelt notes. Photograph: Kind courtesy Alia Bhatt/Instagram Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor hosted their mums Soni Razdan and Neetu Kapoor......
Just before Christmas, film and television stars -- of all ages! -- partied with the Mumbai police at their annual show, Umang. Deepika Padukone arrived with husband Ranveer Singh. Watch......
India grabbed another 18 silver and 4 bronze to take the total tally to 165 medals IMAGE: Tejinder Pal Singh Toor broke the South Asian Games record. Photograph: SAI Media/Twitter Shuttlers......
Reader Saurabh Tandon sent us this photograph. 'We spotted Prakash Padukone (All England Badminton Champion 1980) at Crosswords, Residency Road, Bangalore. In the picture, my mother Kusum and my......
'To win a medal at the Olympics you need 12 to 15 Virdhawals and Sejwals.''We lack a swimming culture.''Countries like the US, Australia, France and China are powerhouses, with access to the best......
Ace Indian hockey midfielder Viren Rasquinha and shooter Gagan Narang are among the Arjuna award winners for 2005.Women's cricketer Anju Jain is among the awardees, while none of her popular male......
Amidst glitz and glamour, Pankaj Advani was on Tuesday ceremonially conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna -- the country's highest sporting honour -- by President A P J Abdul Kalam, marking a......