Jimmy Carter's India Connection

Lillian Carter, a trained nurse and a Peace Corps worker, spent two years of her life, when she was in her late 60s, serving the poor in India, in the 1960s. She was posted as a volunteer to......

India's New Trilemma

...Kids, jobs, emigration, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   "Aren't you kids going to have children?" I asked one of my nieces who had come for a one-week......

Fresh FIR in Delhi minor rape case as girl names more persons

The Delhi police registered a fresh case after the minor girl who was allegedly raped by suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a few other......

MP govt scraps circular on sterilisation, shifts official

The Madhya Pradesh government on Friday scrapped a controversial circular that set sterilisation targets for male multi-purpose health workers (MPHWs) and warned of salary loss for not......

Poster Boys review: Low-IQ comedy

Shreyas Talpade's film, co-starring the Deol brothers, never adds up to anything beyond a shrill or overdone caricature straight out of a dummy's guide in how to amuse, says Sukanya Verma. There's......

'Films are bombing left, right and centre'

Shreyas Talpade reveals how he has survived in Bollywood. IMAGE: Shreyas, Sunny and Bobby Deol in Poster Boys. Shreyas Talpade was seen in a new avatar in Poster Boys -- behind the camera. A......

'I can be the representative of farmers across India'

'We were shooting a sequence where I have a showdown with a minister. After the director said cut, I looked around and everybody was giggling.' 'Then I saw that my dhoti had given away......

Review: Poshter Boyz is a laugh riot

Poshter Boyz is a hilarious act. Had Dada Kondke been alive today, he would have gone gaga over Poshter Boyz's double-meaning, yet refined dialogues, says Prasanna D Zore. Three men -- a lover boy......