Cadres who wish to get married are forced to undergo the procedure at the directive of the senior Communist Party of India-Maoist leaders. IMAGE: Maoists surrender at a function in Jagdalpur,......
...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......
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......
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......
More rural women are having babies in government hospitals.Facilities have improved, but Bihar, discovers Archana Masih/Rediff.com, has a long way to go in public health. IMAGE: A nurse examines a......
'I felt a constant gag in my throat, and emerged from the movie somewhat mugged,' confesses Sreehari Nair. In Tushar Hiranandani's Saand Ki Aankh, Prakash Jha plays a character the audience......
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......
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......
'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......
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......