What lies ahead for the big cat in the wild, wild world?

On International Tiger Day, India is still a long way from making sure that the future of our national animal is safe.  DON'T MISS: Tiger Diaries on Rediff.com  IMAGE: From 1,411......

Dr Singh's plans to protect the tiger

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was briefed on the progress made on the conservation of tigers, has offered a package to 270 villages which are in sanctuaries to relocate their populations......

Former UP minister alleges threat to life

Already embroiled in multiple controversies, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is now confronted with revolt from the most unexpected quarters. Former cabinet minister Babu Singh Kushwaha,......

SC adopts new roster system, CJI to hear all PILs

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Thursday put in place a roster system for allocation of cases in the Supreme Court in what could be a move to address the grievances by four-senior most judges......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

Business books you must read

It has been a good year for business books. Spoilt for choice, readers have had a tough time making up their minds. Should they find out why Nassim Nicholas Taleb is urging everybody to imagine the......

Shanghai rising!

Benjamin Wood swings his bulky frame over the saddle, straps on his helmet, and settles onto a vintage motorcycle with sidecar. The American architect kicks the engine into life with a single......

Runway 34 Review

Runway 34 is a clumsy cocktail of Hollywood movies spiked with the Bollywood brand of God complex, sighs Sukanya Verma. It's a spooky, stormy, sky. A plane full of passengers is moments away from......

Why 2008 has to be big

Bollywood's slated for an eventful 2008. Another big Hollywood studio goes desi, the country's most talked about couple take to the global stage, and our actors start getting their bank accounts......

Elton John to marry!

Elton John, after living a life typifying both Sixties 'hip' and Seventies 'swing', and passing through all the obligatorycycles of sex, drugs, depravity, and bad pop phases, has now decided to......

Diana Hayden's new adaa

Adaa - Will Kill U brings together Miss World Diana Hayden, the first Asian Mr World Rajeev Singh, singer-actress Vasundhara Das in her first Bollywood film, and the 'baddest man' of them all,......

Muhammad Ali: The greatest of all time

Bikash Mohapatra salutes boxing legend Muhammad Ali IMAGE: File photo of American heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), February 1964. Photograph: Getty Images.   'Age is......