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Pak Hindu refugees living besides Yamuna get demolition notice

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has issued notices to Hindu refugees from Pakistan who live near Gurudwara Majnu Ka Tilla in the Yamuna floodplain area asking them to vacate the place, locals......

Rat miner rejects another house offered in Delhi

Rat-hole miner Wakeel Hassan, who had lost his house in a demolition drive, has rejected another offer of a house in Dilshad Garden in New Delhi by the authorities, he told PTI on Saturday. IMAGE:......

'Won't move': Rat miner after spending 2nd night on footpath

"We will not move from this site," says Wakeel Hassan, a rat-hole miner who was part of the Silkyara tunnel rescue operation, sitting on a footpath where he and his family spent their second night......

Homeless after eviction, rat-hole miner's daughter misses Class 10 exam too

A teenage daughter of rat-hole mining expert Wakeel Hasan, who was involved in rescuing 41 labourers who got trapped in an under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand last year, missed her exam on......

His house razed, rat miner rejects DDA's guest house offer

Hours after razing his house in a demolition drive in Delhi, the DDA offered to move Wakeel Hassan, a rat-hole miner who was part of the Silkyara tunnel rescue operation, and his family to a......

Cut the red tape and let private sector manage surplus govt land

Maybe Modi could ask a patriarch of the stature of the late G D Birla to flesh out the details of a new company to manage government land privatisation. Of all the parts of the divestment......

Is the largest biometric database in the world also its leakiest?

The need of the hour, as the Supreme Court readies to rule on the constitutionality of Aadhaar, is for the UIDAI to fix the bugs, says Geetanjali Krishna, in the second and final part of her......

Why some things work in India, and some don't

'The two-word answer is: Proper oversight,' says T N Ninan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The India of the 1980s and 1990s had many dreams: Private TV by satellite or cable, instead of......

The big flaws in allocating land for a Reliance mall in Delhi

Delhi Development Authority's land deal to Reliance Industries throws up larger issues of governance, says Laveesh Bhandari. Based on a PIL filed by The Citizens Alliance, a Delhi-based......

India to soon ratify WTO trade pact

India has completed most of the consultation process related with the World Trade Organization's trade facilitation agreement and the government is expected to ratify it at the......

Review: Shubh Mangal Saavdhan is a winner all the way!

'With its fine zingers and feisty acknowledgement, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan does more for sex, both noun and verb, than any Hindi film can claim to in a long, long time,' notes Sukanya Verma. Is it......

Review: What keeps Fan going is SRK's star power!

Solely as a script, Fan is an underwritten, messy construction of unrealistic proportions. But when viewed as a jugalbandi between Shah Rukh Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, the experience is unique and......

Buzz: Dhawan to lead Delhi in Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy

IMAGE: Shikhar Dhawan. Photograph: BCCI Senior India opener Shikhar Dhawan will lead a 20-member Delhi squad at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy National T20 Championships, which will kick off the......

Green Tribunal refuses to order demolition of Siri Fort Sports Complex

IMAGE: A general view of a squash stadium inside the Siri Fort Sports Complex in Delhi, one of the venues for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Adnan Abidi/Reuters The National Green Tribunal has......

Air India almost stopped Sumit Nagal from flying to Wimbledon!

'Even if we ate our chappatis with pickle, we ensured proper food for Sumit.' Wimbledon boys' doubles champion Sumit Nagal's father tells Manu Shankar/Rediff.com about his son's tough rise, Mahesh......

Confident Sindhu says ready for Saina challenge in IBL

Confident after winning a bronze medal at the World Badminton Championships, fast rising shuttler P V Sindhu says she is ready to take on her celebrated compatriot Saina Nehwal at the inaugural......

Saina preparing hard for tough test at India Open

Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal says the draw at the upcoming India Open badminton tournament is tough and progressing in the competition will not be a cakewalk. Stating that her first-round......

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